Still enrolling for 2023-2024 school year. Next start date is January 2. Dismiss
The Fundamental Needs lesson is given to first year students in the Montessori elementary classroom. It is the first chapter of work that the child engages with in the history curriculum after The Passage of Time and it is a leitmotif throughout the entire elementary history curriculum. The purpose of this lesson is to introduce…
The names of letters are just a way for us to talk about letters. They are not related to the core skills of reading (decoding) or spelling (encoding), they are only used for talking about letters in isolation.
I was sent a great question on Instagram: Why do you use the Moveable Alphabet during “sound games?” In my training, I was told not to introduce the Moveable Alphabet until the child had mastered several of the Sandpaper Letters. This question is referring to the phonemic awareness, “sound games,” lessons I have in my…
Do you remember fractions from your elementary school days? I remember them only as memorized algorithms- a set of rules to do this when that happens- but not knowing why those were the steps. It wasn’t until my Montessori training that I gained a real understanding of what a fraction is and how to perform…
Davie is an earnest little boy who has been promised a little black rabbit as a gift. Saturday is a long way off, a whole “six long waiting days still to wait”, and we experience that passage of time through the lense of this child.
The nature of being young is to not have a lot of worldly experience and to not know how things could be different; children take the world as it is concretely and can’t yet imagine it being another way.
