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...
Wonder and the Child
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -...
Montessori Monday: Sandpaper Letters
Just as the Montessori classroom allows ample practice for the physical skills children will need to master holding a pencil, we also...
Math and Early Childhood
The Math materials are an essential part of the Early Childhood classroom, designed to respond to what we understand about development at...
The Number Rods
Look familiar? They should. The Number Rods follow almost the same initial presentation as the Red Rods, a perennial favorite in the...
Empathy in the First Plane: 3-6
As infants and toddlers, children demonstrate initial kindness, especially toward people with whom they have a special bond. As they move...
Montessori Monday: The Knobbed Cylinders
You'd be hard pressed to visit any Montessori early childhood classroom in the world and not find the Knobbed Cylinders on the shelf....
Rolling a Rug
As we move past the transitional first days of school and the rhythms of the school year begin to be established, we will begin sending...
The Freedom to Interact (Or Not) in the First Plane: 3-6
If you imagine a traditional preschool, you might think about children sitting together at circle time, singing songs all together,...
Separation Stress in Early Childhood
For older children, who have a more developed sense of themselves separate from their parents and their ability to influence their...