Adam Walsh. Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Jessica Lunsford. Madeleine McCann.
Children are abducted by total strangers so rarely that when it happens, their names are seared into our consciousness forever.
Here’s the trouble: when we teach children about safety practices, most of what we say involves “stranger danger”, even though stranger abduction is rare. We give them [...]
I recently read an interesting article by Julia Volkman in the Jola Montessori newsletter Public Montessorian. In it, she talks about the creative limitations of having kids color outlines like those found in coloring books or blackline masters.
In Montessori, blackline masters are black and white outlines of our nomenclature cards (see the Parts of [...]
As I sit down to write this post, my heart is heavy and my feet are a little cold. It’s a chilly -6 F in Chicago tonight, and I can hear the wind whipping around outside.
This has been an unusually busy and stressful few months for me and my family. In November, my mom’s father [...]
I get a lot of questions about albums, so I’m going to try and answer them all in one helpful post! In this post, I will also give an in-depth review of the printed Montessori albums that are available, and give some links to online albums as well.
Disclosure: I have purchased some albums from each [...]
Hello, everyone! After a little bit of an absence, I am back. During the past three months, my incredible web designer, David, and I have been hard at work designing a new store that keeps the best parts of Montessori for Everyone but with an updated look and more features to make it easier for [...]
At the beginning of the summer, the blogging program I had been using stopped working correctly, and the company who makes it refused to fix the errors. What had once been fairly easy - putting up a new blog post - became a difficult and time-consuming task.
Clearly, something needed to change. I decided to have [...]
When I was a 3-6 (preschool) assistant, I vividly remember what would happen each August: I thought the classroom looked perfectly fine, but a few weeks before school, the directress in the room would suddenly pull everything off the shelves, re-arrange and swap materials, and keep tweaking right up until the first day of school.
Once [...]
When setting out to help children learn about art, I think it’s important to spend some time thinking over the subject first – what is the purpose of art, and why should kids study it? To some, art is nice but sort of a fluffy distraction; possibly not even completely necessary to human existence. [...]
As I mentioned last week, I believe that every Montessori classroom should have a dedicated art area. This lets kids know that art is important, and also gives them a chance to explore different kinds of art and different art media. In elementary, projects can be more sophisticated, especially if kids have had a good [...]
Art. What does that little word mean? It can encompass a huge variety of pursuits, from drawing to dance, from sculpture to movie making. The one thing all artistic pursuits have in common is that they involve some sort of creation – making something that didn’t already exist.
As you may remember from our study [...]
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