Practical Life – Outdoors

All year long, we’ve been expanding our outdoor classroom, and this month was no exception. We’ve brought outside a full compliment of Practical Life materials for kids of all ages. These activities, such as pouring water, spooning rice, watering the flowers and sweeping (both practice and actual) are things that we do every day. These […]

Build a Snowman

‘Tis the Season

Our holiday materials are back It’s December, and that means cooler weather and new works on our shelves. After a month of smashing golf tees into pumpkins and learning the parts of a turkey, now we’ve moved on to cutting out snowflakes, learning the parts of a snowman and sorting wreaths and candy canes. but… […]

Our fantastical loose parts

This fall, enjoying the outdoors is our #1 prevention tactic against “the virus”–as the children call it. As such, it seems appropriate to use this space to discuss just how our playground operates. This post is not about is how, little-by-little, we’re bringing our Montessori academic materials outside–that’s an on-going, still-evolving structural change to be […]

Montessori Triangular Box

Our Sensorial Shelves

  Our Sensorial shelves include many of the materials that Montessori is best known for: the pink tower, the brown stairs, the knobbed and knobless cylinders and the varieties of insets. Maria Montessori herself designed most of these works, based on her own experiences of how young children learn.  If you’ve ever seen a two-year-old […]