Welcome to a new and exciting year! For those who do not me, let me tell you a little about myself. I started working for Valley Forge Kinder House as a camp counselor when I was in tenth grade. During the summer months, I came out from Nebraska to visit my father in Pennsylvania and ...
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After working with the metal insets and the sandpaper letters for some time, the child starts to realize that he is able to make words and numerals with a pencil. Montessori called this “explosion into writing.” When this happens, the child is spared many tedious hours of forced effort. Writing ...
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Our spring events are extremely exciting for the children from creating art crafts and going on spring nature walks to preparing for the Easter holiday by dying our eggs, writing a letter to the Easter bunny, reading a letter from the Easter Rabbit, and going on an egg hunt. We want to give ...
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The children have been asking an endless list of questions about their world, such as the many different cultures and lifestyles that other children experience on a daily basis. We have been visiting a wonderful book called, “Wake Up, World! A Day in the Life of Children Around the World" ...
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As the children work throughout the room each day, I find it a pure joy just watching how each child discovers new and exciting information through their life experiences in the classroom. These new discoveries come from all the groundwork they have already obtained and continue to develop from the ...
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The Montessori Golden Decimal Bead materials are so beautiful and yet very mysterious at first to the children. The children continuously gravitate towards them every day and want to know more about how these materials work. The children are introduced to the basic lessons and become more and more ...
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Montessori students use hands-on learning materials that make abstract concepts clear and concrete. They can literally see and explore what is going on. Based on the research of Dr. Maria and Mario Montessori, this approach to teaching mathematics offers a clear and logical strategy for ...
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Dr. Montessori wrote, “A child’s work is to create the person he or she will become someday in the future.” As adults, we work to perfect the environments we live in, but the child’s work is to perfect himself. Our young children find something special about tasks that an adult often ...
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