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Dr. Montessori organized her student groupings in multi-age classrooms. The age breakdowns are as follows: 3-6-year-olds in Primary 6-9-year-olds in Lower Elementary 9-12-year-olds in Upper Elementary 12-18 year-olds- Adolescence 18-24 year-olds- Maturity AMI article on Planes of Development You Tube video on Planes of Development If you haven’t ever seen a multi-age classroom in action, it can seem…
With recent events in the United States highlighting the deep political divisions and racial disparities in our country we thought that it would be an appropriate time to focus this blog post on Montessori’s educational philosophy on Peace Education. Peace Education can be defined as: “Anything that teaches anyone how to be more peaceful with themselves, others, and the world”…
Whew! We’ve made it! The end of the first semester is upon us, finally. It is important to stop for just a minute and to take a breath. That, in and of itself, is a momentous occasion. We need to take a minute to allow just a bit of celebration for having accomplished finishing this semester. We know that it…
As the school year ended last spring, We are pretty sure we were able to hear an audible collective sigh of relief from all those involved. Parents, students, teachers, administrators, school board members, and local government officials were all very happy to be ending what can only be described as a chaotic last few months of school. With the pandemic…
Now that parents and kids are all together, having to work on school assignments and job requirements from home, there are undoubtedly challenges that arise. First of all, do you even have enough bandwidth to sustain that many online users at once? Is your internet connection stable, or are you constantly getting disruptions in service? Are you having to do…
We have been getting feedback from families all over the country about what is working, and not working in the remote-learning environment. Many of the frustrations come from a lack of fully functional online platforms. Dropped web-conferences, inability to hear the presenter, students making inappropriate comments in the chat feature on the web conference, too many users on the network-…
First, We want to say thanks to all the people who have checked out the blog on its first day out in public! I hope you can find some useful information in what I am posting. I want to hear from you. How is it going? What are you finding that works for your family? What challenges are you facing…
Practical life activities and works are a critical part of each Montessori classroom at every age level. Practical life works can include things like sweeping, washing dishes, plant care, folding laundry, gardening, pet care, shoveling snow, cooking, dusting, sewing, etc. Most of us know these activities as the “chores” we had to do as kids. In a Montessori environment, those…
