You've heard it before: families that sit down to dinner together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and more persistence through challenges. Kids whose families eat dinner together regularly are less likely to engage in substance abuse, to experience depression or to be overweight. Sitting down with your children helps you to make real connections with them today, connections that will help them in the future. You can use some of the same tech

Just when your class has finally hit its pace, when the hectic scheduling of the holidays is behind you and the children have returned to school ready to focus and settle in, it's time for families to think about registration for next year and time to welcome lots of guests into the peaceful sanctuary of your classroom. Lots and lots of guests. Big ones, full-sized adults who make noise and ask questions and look uncomfortable with their knees pulled up to their chests sittin

"The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation for science and the preparation for sanctity should form a new soul, for the attitude of the teacher should be at once positive, scientific and spiritual. Positive and scientific, because she has an exact task to perform, and it is necessary that she should put herself into immediate relation with the truth by means of rigorous observation...

You've heard it before: families that sit down to dinner together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and more persistence through challenges. Kids whose families eat dinner together regularly are less likely to engage in substance abuse, to experience depression or to be overweight. Sitting down with your children helps you to make real connections with them today, connections that will help them in the future. You can use some of the same tech

Just when your class has finally hit its pace, when the hectic scheduling of the holidays is behind you and the children have returned to school ready to focus and settle in, it's time for families to think about registration for next year and time to welcome lots of guests into the peaceful sanctuary of your classroom. Lots and lots of guests. Big ones, full-sized adults who make noise and ask questions and look uncomfortable with their knees pulled up to their chests sittin

"The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation for science and the preparation for sanctity should form a new soul, for the attitude of the teacher should be at once positive, scientific and spiritual. Positive and scientific, because she has an exact task to perform, and it is necessary that she should put herself into immediate relation with the truth by means of rigorous observation...

If your school is like many others, you may have had an intentional delay for classroom observation and visits until a few weeks into the year. By now, though, it's time for guests. Lots and lots of guests. Big ones, full-sized adults who make noise and ask questions and look uncomfortable with their knees pulled up to their chests sitting in tiny chairs. The degree to which guests in your classroom are a gift or a distraction is, as with all things in the environment, a fac

You've heard it before: families that sit down to dinner together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and more persistence through challenges. Kids whose families eat dinner together regularly are less likely to engage in substance abuse, to experience depression or to be overweight. Sitting down with your children helps you to make real connections with them today, connections that will help them in the future. You can use some of the same tech

Just when your class has finally hit its pace, when the hectic scheduling of the holidays is behind you and the children have returned to school ready to focus and settle in, it's time for families to think about registration for next year and time to welcome lots of guests into the peaceful sanctuary of your classroom. Lots and lots of guests. Big ones, full-sized adults who make noise and ask questions and look uncomfortable with their knees pulled up to their chests sittin

Emily Post once wrote, “ Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” We think about manners in quite the same way in the Montessori classroom. While our environments are spaces within which children’s autonomy is protected, those freedoms are limited by the natural boundaries that occur when we think of ourselves as members of a community. Living in community means thinking abou