While you may seem some of the same materials on the shelves, Toddler Montessori classrooms are not just simpler Early Childhood…
Montessori Transitions: Toddler to Early Childhood
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First Plane
Montessori Monday: The Strip Boards
In the early Montessori materials, children explore and practice concepts through concrete, hands-on manipulatives. These materials, from…
Montessori Monday: The Land and Water Forms
Children learn concretely, adopting new concepts best when they can feel them in their hands and move them about. For some concepts, like…
Pay Attention!
Although parents often complain the most about their older children’s attention spans, we don’t talk that often about our infants’…
Montessori Monday: The Long Chains
The Montessori Math materials offer concrete, manipulative experiences with concepts that most adults think about abstractly. Through…
Sensorial Materials: Gustatory & Olfactory Development
For tools that are so influential to our experience of the world, we tend to overlook the sense of smell and sense of taste when we think…
Montessori Monday: The Color Boxes
Children are fascinated with color, and learning to name and distinguish colors is one of those early skills parents delight in…
Teacher Talk: Observing Sensorial Development
We can sometimes underestimate the power of the Sensorial materials, thinking about them only as simple activities that let children…
The Sensorial Materials: Tactile Discrimination
While we may not immediately think of it, a child’s tactile discernment is essential to how that child understands and experiences the…
The Sensorial Materials: Auditory Discrimination
Materials across the Montessori classroom work together to respond to children’s development from multiple angles. Some share similar…