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Let’s Play! Montessori’s Playful Nature
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack Is it Work? As a parent, you may hear Montessori teachers describe your children’s
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Cosmic Education for Gratitude and Respect
Submitted by Laura Earls (Based on her AMI Conference Presentation) Edits and Contributions by Margaret Kelley An Interrelated
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Putting on a Play in a Pandemic: Let Us Sing!
Submitted by Margaret Kelley “They had no idea how much their lives would change.” This thought has been uttered thousands of
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Montessori and the Power of Mental Association
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack I love finding ways that Montessori’s educational approach inherently addresses human
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Music in the Montessori Classroom
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack & John Dickson Music Lifts Us Up! Those of us working in Forest Bluff’s office
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The Forest Bluff Montessori Lunch
Submitted by Margaret Kelley The Forest Bluff lunch is a quintessential Montessori experience that builds responsibility,
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Returning to School with Resilience, Creativity, and Courage
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack How do we ready our children for what school will be like this year? They will see their
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Putting on My “Montessori Teacher” Hat
Submitted by Margaret Kelley Parents across the country were given a new job this month, with no warning and no training. Because
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Routines at Home: Creating Hope in Challenging Times
Submitted by Margaret Kelley My grandmother, Paula Polk Lillard, has often spoken of the unique challenges of raising our
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The “Montessori Today” Discussion Guide for Parents and Educators
More than a century after Dr. Maria Montessori developed a pedagogy based on her scientific observations of children, Montessori
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A Shared Vision of Peace: How Montessori Embodies the Values of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Shared Vision of Peace The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. — Dr. Martin Luther King,
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How Do Montessori Teachers Present those Magical Materials?
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack With children under the age of six, in the first plane of development, the Montessori-trained
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Talking to Children About Money
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack A Tough Topic for Many, an Essential Topic for All Money can be a topic wrought with
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Cultivating the Scientific Mind: Montessori Science, Part II
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack The continuation of this article, now referring to Montessori science for Upper Elementary-aged
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The Birth of the Scientific Mind: Montessori Science, Part I
Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack It Begins with Observation To help our children develop scientific minds, we first focus