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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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