Thank you to everyone for the wonderful Spring Play and Song Fest 2022. I am so proud to see everyone blossom during the play. I saw children’s confidence, independence, hard work, leadership, and teamwork. I am so happy to witness a few transformations in the children during the play. Some shyness ...
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About Ms. Tjokro
February Is the Month of Love and Chinese New Year
What happened in the Phoenixville Primary classroom during the month of February? Besides the children working as industrious bees, we celebrated Chinese New Year on February 1, 2022 and Valentine’s Day. In this blog, take a look at some amazing photos from our classroom during the month of February ...
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Create a Montessori Environment at Home
In this article, I elaborate on how to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning development and aligns with the school. The intention is not to replicate the classroom, but to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning to be consistent with what he/she learns ...
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Thanksgiving Celebration in Phoenixville Primary Classroom
Parents - Thank you for coming and celebrating Thanksgiving in our classroom. Your children have been excitedly expecting to work with you in the class. We can see so many proud happy faces working together with his/her parents and vice versa. We captured some precious moments shared in the gallery ...
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The Power of Order
You may have heard a lot of parenting advice saying, “The key to parenting is consistency. You have to be consistent with your children.” What is consistency? And how does consistency work according to the world of Montessori? How can you, as parents, help your child through offering ...
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Meet Ms. Tjokro
I was born with the name, Megawati (she who has a cloud) Tjokro (chokro), in a small country of islands in Southeast Asia named Indonesia in the capital city of Jakarta. During my childhood, I lived more with my grandparents than my parents.
My grandparents owned the best Chinese restaurant in ...
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From Sensorial Materials to the World of Discovery to Creativity
In the Montessori environment, children have a chance to analyze, infer, and enlarge their field of perception through sensorial experiences. All the materials have order—from simple to complex and from basic and general to more specific and detailed qualities—resulting in higher and more critical ...
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Learning About Our World
This month the children spent time learning about our world! ...
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