Children learn concretely, adopting new concepts best when they can feel them in their hands and move them about. For some concepts, like…
Montessori Monday: The Land and Water Forms
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Teacher Talk: Move!
We talk about Freedom of Movement as one of the essential freedoms for children in Montessori classrooms. We offer materials, equipment…
Pay Attention!
Although parents often complain the most about their older children’s attention spans, we don’t talk that often about our infants’…
Movement and the Toddler
It’s estimated that most toddlers walk the equivalent of two and a half miles, roughly 14,000 steps (but also including over a hundred…
Preserving their Spirits
The human spirit, that human spirit that we should first and foremost consider when we think of education, is glorious, enthusiastic; it…
Loneliness in the Third Plane
We keep being told that this generation is different. “Kids today” care less. They’re shallow. They’re soft. They don’t know how to deal…
Montessori Monday: The Long Chains
The Montessori Math materials offer concrete, manipulative experiences with concepts that most adults think about abstractly. Through…
Teacher Talk: Teacher Motivation
For many of us, February days are some of the loveliest. The classroom is buzzing with a happy hum, parents understand the expectations…
Intrinsic Motivation & the Traditionally-Educated Child
Children are born motivated to learn. Think about how much a newborn changes and learns in their first year of life. No one grades them…
Talking to Your Children About Tragedy
It is the seventh week of the new year, and the US today endures the eighth school shooting in as many weeks, in a country that buries…