Healthy eating and physical activity are a vital part of supporting a healthy immune system. These resources and activities are designed to empower families and teachers in the areas of healthy eating, hand washing, and physical activity. Check out the HMP website, https://healthmpowers.org/services/resources/ where you will find virtual resources for early care through high school: Fun At-home Physical Activities Healthy […]
Category Archives: Children
The Five Great Lessons
The Five Great Lessons are meant to provide Montessori elementary students with a “big picture” of the world and life. The lessons demonstrate how the sciences, art, history, language, and geography are interrelated. Students are then introduced to increasing levels of detail and complexity within these broad areas. The Five Great Lessons lay a foundation […]
The Mathematical Mind: Materialized Abstraction
Mathematics is a language that children naturally understand at an early age because it involves a sense of order, pattern, and precision, all of which are inherent in the developing child. At an early age, children in the Montessori environment acquire these patterns through sensorial experiences. For example, materials such as the Pink Tower, Red […]
Homework
Dr. Montessori believed that the desire to work is one of the human tendencies. During the sensorial period, children love to work with their hands. In a Montessori classroom, learning is hands-on, active and independent. Children are granted the freedom to move about with purpose in a Montessori learning environment. In addition, children have the […]
Is World Peace Possible? Montessori says it is. And it starts with the youngest children…
Like many parents of young children new to Montessori, I was stunned after my first observation of a Montessori classroom. I was impressed seeing a map of the United States perfectly traced, colored and labeled, and the notebook of a six-year-old with written out division equations and stories written in cursive. I was even more […]
Why Cursive?
There are many aspects of the AMI Montessori education methodology that differ from traditional schools even more progressive private schools. The way children interact with content material, the length of time children are given to master concepts and the teacher-student interaction are among the most obvious differences between Montessori schools and other childcare facilities. When […]
Progress through language
First we would like to send a special thanks to all the families at Stepping Stone Montessori School for their beautiful holiday gifts. We sincerely appreciate your thoughtfulness. During this season of the year, there is focus on joy, tradition, family, love and hope for the New Year. It’s the most wonderful time of the […]
A Winter Solstices Celebration
The Winter Solstice is one of my favorite times of the year. Although it is the shortest day and the longest night, once this night passes I begin to see the day’s getting longer. This always excites me. Many traditions around the world have a celebration in regards to light; darkness into light, good overcomes […]
What is a “four”?
Counting has been with us a good, long time. The idea that we could keep track of things by doing so is indeed fascinating and helpful beyond description. Rather than have “one”, “one”, “one”, etc – or rather, “this”, “this”, “this” (since “one” doesn’t come into being until you have the idea of “numbers” to […]
Eco Teaching
Add to the list of things that you can’t “teach”: eco-friendliness. The rage these days is teaching earth-friendly, eco-sensitive perspectives. This has been popular for a while now. The thinking is that if we TEACH students to be respectful of the Earth they will make better choices for sustainable practices. This is like teaching morality: […]
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