Montessori Services is one of my go-to resources for Montessori materials. You can shop by category, including areas of the classroom, Montessori at Home, sale items, and by age, or by collection, including Made in the USA, books by Montessorians, teacher favorites, and seasonal items such as these Montessori Services spring themed materials. In this […]
Learn more about the Montessori Classroom
This content provides an overview of Montessori in the classroom including the how to set up a Montessori environment, how to discipline in a Montessori classroom, Montessori lessons, resoures, and basic classroom tenets such as normalization and isolation of quality.
Learn more about Montessori in the classroom by clicking on the topics below!
The Best Methods to Bring Mindfulness into the Classroom
This post outlines easy & effective ways to bring mindfulness in the classroom. Mindfulness seems to be a buzzword these days capturing headlines and infiltrating all aspects of life. There are mindfulness apps, mindfulness exercises for families, mindfulness activities for kids, and books galore about the topic. The ubiquitousness of the word itself – […]
Montessori Toys & Materials: My All Time Top Choices from Etsy
Montessori is known for gorgeous, high-quality materials. Etsy provides amazing Montessori resources and materials for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers. This post includes my absolute favorite Montessori materials I dug up on Etsy. Enjoy! Loose Parts Bug Exploration Hands-on, interactive, and zoology. The perfect, simple work for young children. Montessori Pencil Holder Simple, gorgeous Montessori material. […]
Montessori Assessment Tools & Resources
A Montessori early childhood classroom environment is unique in the way teachers assess children. You won’t find testing, quizzes, and grades within a Montessori environment. Most of you reading this article are proud and happy that our children don’t have to face the wrath of these tests but where does that leave us? How can […]
Use Both Hands – A Case for Training Montessori Assistants
Training Montessori assistants is imperative for a smoothly run classroom. If Montessori teachers were given a magic wand for their classrooms, more often than not they’d use it to implement Montessori to the best of their ability. When asked, teachers usually reveal just how many responsibilities they have that can get in the way of their […]
How to Observe Children in a Montessori Classroom
As you may know, delivering a quality Montessori education is a lot of work. Preparing and maintaining an environment that meets every child’s needs, creating curriculum, guiding children to practice community-created rules, reporting progress to parents and administrators, identifying developmental milestones and more, the job of a teacher is overwhelming and depends on a variety […]