We are now learning about honey bees in our Montessori preschool and discovering what amazing insects they are. We have talked about the pa...
When I was a child, I remember learning about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and dreaming of the day when I could explore them fir...
The Golden Week includes four national Japanese holidays and two weekends. It becomes a very busy time in Japan when Showa Day, Constitut...
Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called...
As mentioned in Part 1 of this article, in the weeks that followed our Montessori classroom visit from Charlie the Congo African Grey Par...
With Easter just around the corner, we decided to enrich each area of our Montessori preschool classroom with Montessori-inspired Easter ac...
We cannot “teach” a child to be an artist, but as Dr. Montessori says, we can help him develop: An Eye that Sees A Hand that Obeys A S...
Did you know that the Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world? Every year the city of Boston hosts the event on Patriot...
Jewish Passover (also called Pesach) is an extremely important holiday in the Jewish faith. Pesach marks the event of Moses leading the chil...
One of my favorite aspects of teaching in a Montessori environment is being able to celebrate diversity, and instilling in my students an ...
March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, and many people around the world enjoy this cultural celebration that originated in Ireland, whether or not...
The Montessori 3—6 Math curriculum is fascinating to learn about, and provides children with such a strong foundation in quantity and the as...
The Montessori Language Arts curriculum is an integrated approach that combines phonetics and whole language. Children are first introduced...
In our Montessori preschool classroom, we try to incorporate a variety of music and movement activities that help to build good listening s...
This past weekend, my family and I put up our Christmas decorations. The stockings are hung “by the chimney with care”, the tree is decorate...
As a continuation of Part 1 of this series, here are a few more winter-themed activities for the Montessori preschool classroom to make t...
Montessori Winter-Themed Activities – Part 1 I always find my Montessori preschool classroom particularly busy during the holiday seas...
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee The greenest state in the land of the free Raised in the woods so's he knew ev'ry tree Kilt ...
Maria Montessori was born one hundred and forty years ago on August 31st. As Montessori teachers, we owe much to this dynamic and innovati...
