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Mixed-Aged Classroom

Mixed-Aged Classroom

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...

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Big Works

Big Works

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...

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Math

Math

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,...

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The Peace Table

The Peace Table

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...

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New School Year, New Beginnings

New School Year, New Beginnings

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”...

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Summer School 2023 – Cooking up a Story

Summer School 2023 – Cooking up a Story

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...

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Vermicomposting

Vermicomposting

Our assistant teacher, Jamie, introduced vermicomposting at our school! We learned that vermicomposting is a method of using red worms to turn food waste into fertilizer. We learned about the life cycle of the worm and what it takes to make a good home for the...

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Spring

Spring

Spring inspires so many aspects of learning – the obvious changes around us cannot go unnoticed, which very conveniently lend themselves into lessons and discussions on a great variety of topics. One of the things we do is talk about the life cycle of a seed and plant...

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May Day Flower Delivery Walk – An Act of Random Kindness

May Day Flower Delivery Walk – An Act of Random Kindness

Our annual May Day Flower Delivery Walk was started by one of our beloved founders, Gena Lawrence. Gena wanted to share with the MOM children her childhood tradition of delivering flowers down her street as an act of kindness every year on May 1st. On this day, we ask...

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Reading & Writing

Reading & Writing

Watching a child’s face light up when they blend their sounds together for the first time and they realize they just read a word is priceless. At M.O.M. we use the phonetic approach to teaching reading and writing. Before the child actually blends their sounds...

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Concentration

Concentration

Whether they are reading a fun book, brushing the teeth of a dinosaur, chopping apples, walking the line, doing math or reading, the children in these photos are fully engrossed in what they are doing – they are concentrating hard on the task in front of them....

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Outdoors – Another Classroom

Outdoors – Another Classroom

The children at My Own Montessori can choose between indoors, the art room, and the outdoors throughout the morning work period. They can come and go in between these areas as they feel fit based on their needs and interests. At MOM, we believe that all three areas...

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5723 Oak Grove Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618