Infants and Toddlers

Preparing for the First Day of School: 0-3

Whether this is the first time your child is headed to school or you're preparing for your youngest of six, the first day of school evoke...

Summer with your Infant/Toddler

This is a curious summer. Some children have returned to school after months away. Others are still at home with their families, maybe now...

Mealtime in the First Plane: 0-3

Montessori classrooms for infants and toddlers are designed with four primary areas in mind: sleeping, toileting or diapering, eating and...

Aggression in the First Plane

While Montessori classrooms are generally peaceful places to be, and Montessori teachers describe the intrinsic peacefulness of the child...

Montessori Monday: Transferring

It's a sort of curious activity to watch: a young child, mesmerized, repeatedly transferring some small object from one container to anot...

Math and the Infant/Toddler

You may have noticed the beautiful Math materials in Montessori early childhood and elementary classrooms. Enticing and elegant, a few mi...

Empathy in the First Plane: 0-3

Are children naturally empathetic? You may have heard of the phenomenon of infants crying in a nursery, reacting to each other's cries in...

Concentration in the First Plane: 0-3

Feeling distracted? Overwhelmed? Like your checklist keeps getting longer but you have less and less time to get it done? In a climate so...

The Freedom to Interact (Or Not) in the First Plane: 0-3

The Freedom to Interact with Others reflects one of Montessori's Tendencies of Humans: the Tendency toward Communication. We understand t...

Separation Stress in Infant & Toddler

No one wants to see their child sad, especially not at those transition moments when you’re leaving for work or saying goodbye at the cla...

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