Montessorikiwi Blog

You will need  - A Black pen, light blue pen, dark blue pen and a red pen - Small cut up pieces of paper - A prewritten caption that says 'verb' - The verb sphere symbol or a ball that is...

Have you heard of arrays? I must admit that before upskilling in my mainstream maths knowledge I hadn't! You are probably familiar with them though Let's take this piece of footpath.  Each individual square has 6 dots across and 6...

I'm not sure about where you live but one thing I have noticed about some Montessori classrooms here in New Zealand is that they are dominated by 'nuclear-families' that is a male and female with children. Sometimes when something is...

Our Montessori equipment is great for teaching place value.  In Montessori we start quite early with 'big' numbers for example it is not uncommon for a 6 year old to be adding two four digit numbers together. However students aren't...

You will need  - A Black pen, light blue pen and dark blue pen - Small cut up pieces of paper - A prewritten caption that says 'adjective' - Three objects all of a different colour e.g. three different coloured...

Hello! I am Rachel and I am a homeschooling mother of two boys. Our eldest son is 7 and our youngest is 5. We are at the very start of our homeschool journey having only begun late summer 2018. It...

Teaching rounding is a vital skill for understanding place value. In Montessori we have lots of maths activities that naturally lend themselves to teaching about rounding. You may have been implicitly teaching rounding however it is important that like all...

   The 100 board is used to help students learn numbers to 100 but did you know you can do a lot more than that with it? The simplicity of this board hides the variety of learning you can do...