In most Montessori classrooms, you’ll find a standing rack with a number of curious frames hanging on it. One frame includes panels of…
Montessori Monday: The Dressing Frames
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Curriculum
Montessori Monday: Addition with the Golden Beads
The Montessori materials share certain qualities: they are hands-on, beautiful and self-correcting. They isolate concepts to be explored…
Montessori Monday: The Pink Series
Legend has it that, when Dr. Montessori sought to translate her original design for reading materials from phonetic Italian to the much…
Montessori Monday: The Geometric Cabinet
In almost every Montessori classroom you visit, from toddler through elementary, you’ll notice a set of drawers, constructed of simple,…
Montessori Monday: The Binomial Cube
Algebra? In preschool? Why not? As a field of mathematics, algebra addresses concepts that apply regardless of the individual quantities…
Montessori Monday: Word Building with the Large Moveable Alphabet
Our Montessori classroom is rich with language, from the casual conversations children enjoy between friends and teachers to the formal…
Montessori Monday: The Knobbed Cylinders
You’d be hard pressed to visit any Montessori early childhood classroom in the world and not find the Knobbed Cylinders on the shelf….
Grace and Courtesy: Teaching Manners Matters
Emily Post once wrote, “ Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners,…
Montessori Monday: The Continent Map
There are some parts of the Montessori classroom that seem to get all the attention: the beautiful Practical Life materials, the engaged…
Montessori Monday: The Metal Insets
Simple geometric shapes and two or three colored pencils: who would imagine that such an unassuming combination could create such…