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Montessori
The Five Great Lessons and Its Impact on Montessori Elementary School Teaching
How Living Things, Communication, and Numbers Contribute to Each Being’s Job on Earth
Maria Montessori’s advice to educators is simple: “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ Teachers can only help the work as servants wait upon a master.”
“The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever-better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world; we are created to evolve the cosmos,” Montessori said.
Explaining The Montessori Method
Build Better Bridges With Your Child Thru Compassion, Acknowledgement, and Questions
“All You Need is Love”…and a Lot of Listening
What’s the first thing you can do to build a happier home with your children? According to the Montessori Method, ‘listen.’
Let’s say it’s three thirty, the school’s out, you’re driving home with your daughter, the radio is on, the driver behind you just pulled an aggressive move, and your four-year-old exclaims, “I want French fries!”
It's My Life! Stop Saying Don't, Can't, Won't!
Dear Mommy and Daddy,
Since I was born, I’ve been percolating. My neurons have been transmitting information throughout my brain. These nerve cells have been firing synapses that have been creating a pathway through my brain since Day One. Every pathway allows information to travel around my brain and the more pathways I have, the faster my brain works.
We have over 100 billion neurons in our brain at birth—as many stars as in the Milky Way!
Five Ways to Build Your Child's Strengths
A key takeaway of the Montessori Method is building students from the bottom up. From Day One of the toddler program to graduation from elementary school, Dr. Maria Montessori’s systematic, methodical approach is focused on individualized learning that creates gifted students.
Montessori School Cuts Student Anxiety
Methods That Embrace Learning Rather Than Rote
As parents, we know the value of school—it’s the springboard toward a life-long career rather than holding an hourly job. But, we also need to know how to value what is being taught in our schools.
In today’s traditional schools there’s one constant question: How well are we are reaching and teaching our children?
Imagination & Fantasy
I would like to share with you an experience I had with the children out on the playground one day. A group of children were playing together when one of them decided to approach a random friend and hit him hard on the face. The friend who was hit not only got hurt but he was in a total shock. I approached both children to see if they were okay and to find out what actually happened. Neither one of them were able to explain to me the reason as to why the incident occurred.
The Montessori Environment
While trying to stay warm in the afternoons, I have been spending WAY too much time surfing the internet and I hate to admit it but I’m hooked. Ever since my invitation to join Pinterest, it has become one of my favorite time wasters. Like any good thing, I have had to severely limit myself to small amounts of time and only after my “school work” and “homework” are both done!
Sensitive Periods
As the year progresses, the children are becoming more engaged in challenging work. In the Bumblebee Classroom, you will hear the children repeatedly count and sound out letters. Every day, the older children practice with their number work as well as reading lessons. This encourages the younger ones to work hard on their own activities because they are eager to one day be able to do what the older children do. Their sensitivity towards numbers and letter
The Parent is the Child's First Teacher
As I prepare to leave for the AMI conference where we will go over many aspects of Montessori philosophy, practice, materials, goals, future, etc, I felt compelled to share a little about things outside of the classroom that are just as important. It is the role of the parent. The old saying of "the parent is the child's first teacher" couldn't be more true. You are their first experience as they entered into the world. You are who feeds their soul, intellect, humanity, and capacity. Your role is far more vital than mine.
Observing to Understand
We would love to have you come in and observe! Again please note, that observations offer just a glimpse of how a typical morning usually goes in our classroom. Children can have a myriad of responses to seeing their parent in their Prepared Environment (as Maria Montessori called the classroom) at school. Your child may have been over the moon about your presence in the classroom and too excited to choose work, they may have been too overwhelmed with emotion and shut down, or they may have been so eager to show you all the things they could do.
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