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January 29, 2023  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Thoughts & Reflection

They Who are Strong are Ready

Whilst there are many highlights during a child’s Montessori journey with us, the highlight is often the graduation ceremony,  a celebration to honour the children leaving us & moving on to primary school.  In the lead up, final parent teacher meetings are held, the child’s progress is reviewed & transition reports prepared. It’s wonderful receiving […]

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February 25, 2022  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Thoughts & Reflection

Is Montessori education a solution to war?

My objection to Montessori’s view of education as the panacea is that, even if it’s true, it just can’t be achieved in isolation. We have to fix the child’s world and the adult’s world in parallel.

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March 16, 2021  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Montessori’s 19 Lessons on Childhood Should Be Applied At All Stages of Life

While the history of Dr. Montessori is not only impressive but fascinating, what I’m most intersted in, however, are the lessons she can teach us about children and ourselves. For she believed, “A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.” And I believe that if we can understand children […]

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March 2, 2020  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, Thoughts & Reflection

Montessori Basics: What is the Montessori work period?

You may already know a bit about the Montessori work period, also known as the work cycle. What exactly is it, and why is it so important? A Montessori work cycle is an uninterrupted block of time. During this time children are able to explore the prepared environment and engage with materials of their own […]

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February 7, 2020  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Thoughts & Reflection

5 Montessori Ways to Show Love

As parents, our interest in Montessori comes always from a place of love–expressed as a desire to provide the best environment possible for our baby’s learning! Montessori is sometimes known as “education for peace,” which intimately connects it with love. Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori curriculum and an expert on early childhood development, […]

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October 14, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Community, Montessori Work, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

The ultimate list of Montessori activities for babies, toddlers and preschoolers

Download The ultimate list of Montessori activities for babies, toddlers and preschoolers provided by The Montessori Notebook.com    

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September 23, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, Thoughts & Reflection

Eighty Ways to Promote Independence in at Home.

You may think your toddler is relatively dependent and that the things they do around the house don’t matter, but you’d be wrong. Simple actions parents take at home can have a long lasting impact on the way your child enters their first years of school. Here are 80 life skills you can allow your […]

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August 31, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Community, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Happy Birthday Maria Montessori

August 31st is a special day. Maria Montessori would have turned 149. She passed in 1952, but her legacy lives on. Children all over the world are working daily in classrooms just like the one she cobbled together in 1907. Adults are witnessing the same discoveries she made. Generations later, has childhood really changed all […]

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July 14, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Community, Montessori Work, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Five tips to bring Montessori Home

Families want to be supportive of their children’s development. We all get the same 24 hours in the day, so whether our work is unpaid as a primary caregiver or takes us outside the home for most of the day and many special occasions, between chores and school and sleep and the zillion other unnameable […]

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July 1, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Community, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

When We Get Mad at Children

Most of us who work with children and/or have children of our own know well that little boys and girls are not the only ones who can find it challenging to handle anger and stress. We can too, of course. A significant challenge when being around children can be stress. That stress has many different […]

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June 5, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Why “Good Job!” Doesn’t Cut It: A Montessori Perspective On Praise

First of all, who doesn’t say “good job!” to their kids? It’s a catch-all sort of praise that you can easily blurt out while you’re also skimming the news, chopping vegetables or peeking out of the bathroom to watch your child do some sort of jumpy twirly move that he’s obviously very proud of. Yet, […]

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June 1, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Thoughts & Reflection

They’re Called Guides

There’s this beautiful quote from Dr. Montessori’s Words of Advice to Teachers, published 95 years ago. “She must give her lesson, plant the seed and then disappear; observing and waiting, but not touching.” May 6th marks the anniversary of Dr. Montessori’s passing, and, like many dates of note, often has us feeling a bit sentimental. We’re […]

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May 5, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, Thoughts & Reflection

Why do we have plants in the classroom ?

A quick glance into many Montessori classrooms will showcase not just students, guide, materials, and furniture, but also often plants. Why is that? Does the teacher just like ferns, or is there a reason? As usual, there is always a reason in Montessori. For why we have plants, there are several reasons! Let’s explore those together. […]

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April 27, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Montessori, Work.

What do you think of when you think of work? What do your family members, colleagues, peers, employees, and children say or think? If you google, “define work,” you will come up with a definition that you will probably find surprising. Using the word work as a verb, it states, “be engaged in physical or […]

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April 11, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Toilet Awareness Learning & Independence

Children are aware and can be introduced to toilet learning and independence as soon as they are autonomously mobile. They will often show signs of readiness long before the adults are organised to help them achieve toilet independence. As adults we have little control of our children toileting, what we do have control of, is […]

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March 10, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Thoughts & Reflection

Modern writing in Montessori

We’re very concerned with preparing children for the future. It’s a very unsteady time to be a parent. The world has changed more in the past ten years than in the past hundred, and things really aren’t slowing down. We’re using more technology for more common daily activities, and one thing is for sure, it’s […]

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February 14, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Redirection in Montessori

How does redirection work in a Montessori environment & what can you practice to make things easier.

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February 11, 2019  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Why Montessori?

Why would I want to send my child to a Montessori? What do you offer that a childcare/family day care program/staying home with a primary caregiver doesn’t? These are such natural questions. With an abundance of options, wanting to prepare our children the best we can for an unknown future, and no clear right or […]

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December 18, 2018  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

Beautiful Consequences

Consequence seems like such a negative phrase. Consequence is punishment, punitive, prison. I’m going to make you regret that mistake. You’ll absolutely learn from this experience, and I’m going to make sure of it. Consequence has no innate negativity. The definition is, “a result or effect of an action or condition.” There’s nothing bad about […]

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November 21, 2018  |  By Northwest Montessori  |  In Montessori Work, News & Blog, Thoughts & Reflection

The Montessori 3 Period Lesson

There’s a tool we use almost constantly in the classroom. In fact, we all use it, all the time! It’s something called a Three Period Lesson, and it’s essentially how we all learn language. There are three different periods, or stages. First, we Name something. Second, we Recognise it. Third, we Identify it. In the […]

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