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This upcoming year, I have a different set of hopes for our school.
My 2021 Montessori school resolution: getting back to normal!
The Old Normal seems like a lifetime ago! It’s how we used to do things before COVID-19.
Dr. Maria Montessori spent her life observing and interpreting children’s behaviors.
Her approach to education focused on teaching each child as an individual, thereby creating unparalleled Montessori benefits.
The Montessori Method philosophy she created believes that every child has a specific set of inherent skills that teachers can find and focus on creating an independent and successful adult.
The 2020 pandemic has thrown our lives all out of whack. Parents are running on empty. Many families are juggling work and life balance while struggling to patch together child care-- leaving parents with less time and motivation for self-care.
As parents, we play a bigger role in how things turn out and have more influence on the resilience, confidence, and assuredness of our children's psychological wellness during stressful situations.
As we near the start of the holiday break at LMS, we ask that you continue employing your social commitment to our school and community while at home with your family. To begin, please follow these low-risk Montessori school holiday tips:
Emotional Intelligence, also known as Emotional Quotient (EQ), is based on the concept that parents and children can build strengths in more than just academic categories. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) on the other hand is a measure of a person’s reasoning ability to gauge how well someone can use information and logic to answer questions or make predictions.
A question that comes up quite often during our school tours is whether Montessori schools follow Common Core standards. Before we dive into this very popular question, let’s define the Montessori Method of education as well as the Common Core.
At Lifetime Montessori School and thousands of others, once in a while parents are called in to discuss their child’s aggressive behaviors. In an instant, parents may feel embarrassed, guilty, or judged by administrators as we work towards handling discipline issues and creating childhood independence in their children.
Sadly, the concern the school sees is often denied or disbelieved by parents.
As young toddlers begin to learn independence, here are some hygiene tips for parents to implement.
Let’s start with the basics by educating our children about hygiene. Explain good and bad habits with them and why we must begin and maintain good hygiene habits. Praise and encourage them when they follow these basics. And get them into the habit of sustaining good hygiene going forward by making hygiene fun.
As Montessori elementary school students grow and prepare for Grades 7 & 8, the best way to transition to middle school is on parents’ minds. For example, they ask:
Sheltering-in-place is helping me learn more about my family and children. The main thing I’ve learned: no matter what it took to get through the day—I’ve given my best.
This time has been so challenging, so hard.
