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Montessori Monday: The Knobless Cylinders

A companion material to the Knobbed Cylinders, the Knobless Cylinders offer children extended practice with the relationships of height,...

Mealtime in the First Plane: 3-6

When you visit a Montessori Early Childhood classroom, you're likely to see children preparing foods of all kinds: chopping apples,...

Montessori Monday: The Green Materials

If you remember full-group spelling lessons in your elementary school, it may be hard to imagine how language can be taught in classrooms...

Aggression in the First Plane

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

Nomenclature Cards and Purposeful Writing

Once children have begun to write letters, they are quickly motivated to apply that knowledge to useful, meaningful activities. But a...

Sandpaper Letters and Metal Insets

Just as the Montessori classroom allows ample practice for the physical skills children will need to master holding a pencil, we also...

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...

The Perpetual Calendar

The Montessori materials all share certain characteristics. They are beautiful and elegant by design, isolating a single concept and...

Telling Time

While young children may not easily grasp the abstract concept of time, they are nonetheless inundated with references to the measurement...

Montessori Monday: The Continent Maps

There are some parts of the Montessori classroom that seem to get all the attention: the beautiful Practical Life materials, the engaged...