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You will need  - A collection of objects some singular some plural e.g. 4 pencils, 3 beads, 5 cups, 6 toy cars, 1 book - small paper pre cut into strips - black pen and light blue pen - A prewritten...

  You will need  - A Black pen - Small cut up pieces of paper - A prewritten caption that says 'noun'   Key Experiences are ways of sparking the imagination of the child. They are given to new or...

Hi! I’m Bree, my husband and I were both homeschooled through grade 12, and are now homeschooling our three kids, ages 6, 4, and nearly 2. I fell in love with Montessori pedagogy after being introduced to it by a...

Multi age classes have long been a cornerstone of Montessori classrooms.  Montessori classrooms were built around Maria Montessori’s idea of healthy communities. Montessori thought it unnatural to segregate by age pointing out that segregating elderly people because they were old...

The Second Great Story has so much that could be presented after it. It is important to think about curriculum coverage. If you are really interested in dinosaurs you might be naturally inclined to push the study of dinosaurs or...

Fossils are a favourite topic of students. For younger students in particular the connection to dinosaurs is a big attraction. Giving the opportunity for students to study fossils works well after the Second Great Story.  By studying fossils children gain...

Earlier I talked a bit about how we can introduce the Montessori decimal board here (part 1) and  here (part 2)  In the last section of Part 2 the lesson was on the student exchanging  say 12 tenths for one whole and...

Let's continue to look at the Montessori Decimal board. I am a bit fluid in terms of how I give the lessons and obviously adapt to my students. Some of the previous lessons which you can see here could be...

Decimals can be hard for students to understand. Unlike whole number some students do not have a lot of exposure to these types of numbers. Importantly though they link to fractions and percentages and knowledge of them is vital for...