Creating a Love for Learning
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Are you looking for a school that will foster a love for learning in your young child? Look no further than The Children's Schoolhouse...
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Preparing Children for the Future
Preparing Children for the Future As parents, we all want the best for our children. We want them to grow up to be successful, happy,...
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The Benefits of Montessori Education
Are you considering enrolling your child in a Montessori school? If so, you may be wondering what the benefits of Montessori education...
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The Formation of the Mathematical Mind
The foundation of a love of math comes not from rote lessons, but from joyful experience in seeing shapes and objects.
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The Importance of Nature
An atmosphere of love and respect for plants and animals, in the home, is the best foundation.
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Art Is a Way of Approaching Life
Art is a way of approaching life, of moving and speaking, of decorating a home and school and oneself, of selecting toys and books.
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Children and Language
The acquisition of all languages spoken in the environment of the child begins in the womb before the child is born, and continues to be an
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Making Music
**This article was originally published on www.michaelolaf.com** If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. —Zimbabwe...
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The Knobbed Cylinder
In this video a Montessori teacher is displaying the correct way to use the Knobbed Cylinder activity. The Knobbed Cylinder activity is a...
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The Broad Stair
The Broad Stair activity is introduced after the Pink Tower activity at The Children's Schoolhouse Montessori Preschool.
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Building the Pink Tower
Building the Pink Tower is one of the first Montessori exercises practiced at The Children's Schoolhouse Montessori Preschool.
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Care - of Self, Others, the Environment: Participating in Family Life
Practical life activities provide every child, by instinct, wants to learn and grow to the limit of his or her abilities.
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Care - of Self, Others, the Environment: Balance
Balance Care of Self, Others and the Environment The child can only develop by means of experience in his environment. We call such...
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Preschool Quote of the Day 7/10/15
"What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the...
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Bullying: What It Is, What It Isn't, and What Parent's Can Do
By: Chip DeLorenzo, M.Ed. There has been a lot of attention on the topic of bullying in the last decade. It has been warranted. For too...
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Preschool Quote of the Day 7/9/15
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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Preschool Quote of the Day 7/8/15
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"
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Montessori Philosophy & Practice BIRTH TO THREE—A Superior Environment: Furniture
Furniture Furniture does not have to be expensive; it can be as simple, or as elegant, as any other furniture in the home. The important...
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Preschool Quote of the Day 7/7/15
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
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Montessori Philosophy & Practice BIRTH TO THREE—A Superior Environment: General Environment Prin
The following is the text from this section of the 2009-2010 edition of The Joyful Child, Montessori from Birth to Three. To see other...
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