by MOM | Jan 31, 2024 | Montessori Preschool
Being able to witness the ever-changing role of a child throughout their three years in a mixed-age classroom, is one of the most wonderful experiences in a Montessori preschool. When a child enters our school at 32 months, they are the youngest student who is...
by MOM | Dec 21, 2023 | Creativity, Montessori Preschool
As our afternooners are developing their skills in all curricular areas, they are also expanding their ability to concentrate and stay engaged with a work over an extensive period of time. The works they are choosing have multiple steps and may take several days to...
by MOM | Oct 25, 2023 | Comprehension, Montessori Preschool
In our math curriculum, we focus on number recognition 0-9, then 1-10, the teen numbers, and finally 1-100. When the children become comfortable recognizing their numbers and associating quantity and numerals, we introduce them to simple operations, such as addition,...
by MOM | Oct 2, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, Special Events
As part of our Grace and Courtesy Curriculum, at the beginning of each school year, we present the Peace Table. After having a group discussion on what peace means and how we strive each day to maintain peace both in our body and mind, I read a recitation called ‘I...
by MOM | Sep 21, 2023 | Montessori Preschool
With the new school year starting and our newest and youngest students joining our school, we are establishing the ground rules and routines and we are focusing on grace and courtesy lessons, which are the foundations of a “normalized” classroom. In the “normalized”...
by MOM | Jul 31, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, Summer School
This summer’s theme was “Cooking Up a Story”. Each day, we read a book that was related to a dish or a recipe, and then we spent the morning chopping, stirring, cooking, frying, dicing, and tasting, until we recreated the delicious dish described in the book just in...
