Montessori identified eleven different Sensitive Periods, and others have been suggested as our understanding of human development…
Toddlers and the Sensitive Periods
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Theory
The Sensitive Period to Order, or Why Won’t My Kid Just Use a Different Spoon?
The Sensitive Period to Order, which usually presents between the ages of two and four, brings with it a whole new set of challenges for…
A Beginning, Middle and End: The Cycle of Activity
As the school year progresses, you’ll see the simpler, familiar activities on the classroom shelves replaced with beautiful, carefully…
Teacher Talk: Grace and Courtesy and the Adult
“The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation…
Chaos and Dancing Stars
It’s November… about eight weeks or so into most classroom’s academic year, and the time when we start to think of the environments…
Wonder and the Child
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -…
The Sensorial Materials
Walk into a Montessori Early Childhood classroom anywhere in the world and you are likely to spot a set of materials unique to Montessori…
Carnivals and Classrooms
If you were to draw your conclusions about children’s development based on the products you see marketed to them, you might presume that…
Limits and Freedoms
Montessorians often use the language of, “Freedom with limits,” to describe the open ended choice enjoyed by children in these…
The Three Hour Work Cycle
Of all the ways we consider time in the Montessori classroom, the Three Hour Work Cycle is one of the most important units. The work…