Long after a child has mastered the golden beads, when the sandpaper numbers are far behind her and the Bank Game is old hat, she’ll…
Montessori Monday: The Multiplication Bead Boards
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Curriculum
Montessori Monday: The Fraction Skittles
The Montessori Math materials are distinct for their ability to make concrete otherwise abstract concepts and, by doing so, to allow…
Montessori Monday: The Montessori Bells
The Montessori classrooms is filled with materials which are both wonder-ful and didactic, introducing specific, precise concepts but…
Montessori Monday: The Grammar Symbols
Do you remember learning grammar in Elementary school? Did you memorize the definition of a noun (” a person, place, thing or idea,”)…
Montessori Monday: The Knobless Cylinders
A companion material to the Knobbed Cylinders, the Knobless Cylinders offer children extended practice with the relationships of height,…
The Arts in the Montessori Classroom
History demonstrates an ongoing tension between back-to-basics school reform and models that focus on the “whole child,” like Montessori,…
Material Matters
Visitors to Montessori classrooms often comment on the beautiful materials on the shelves, the lovely wooden crafted puzzles, graceful…
Montessori Monday: The Green Materials
If you remember full-group spelling lessons in your elementary school, it may be hard to imagine how language can be taught in classrooms…
Teacher Talk: Observing Writing
We know that part of our work as Montessori teachers is to observe children. We observe to understand their development, that we may…
Nomenclature Cards and Purposeful Writing
Once children have begun to write letters, they are quickly motivated to apply that knowledge to useful, meaningful activities. But a…