You’ve likely heard of Calendar Time, a common preschool activity where each day, teachers ask students about the days, weeks, and months. “What was yesterday? What’s today? What’s tomorrow?” As old as the practice is, it doesn’t have a lasting effect on young children because they can’t conceptualize that time is sequential. More impactful is […]
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How To Teach Your Preschooler about December Holidays
The Holiday season is a perfect time to teach Montessori preschool children about the diversity and cultural heritage of the world. Exploring cultural traditions and participating in family traditions alike offer ample opportunity to learn about the many holidays being celebrated during the season.
Setting Goals With Your Daughter for the New Year
Setting and sticking to goals can be difficult for your daycare daughter. Her absorbent mind is busily trying to soak up as much information about the world as it can, and this can lead to forgetting to follow a daily or weekly routine designed to achieve specific goals. You can help with that by following […]
Quick and Creative Christmas Recipes That Will Delight Your Preschooler
Christmas recipes are all about the shapes. You don’t really need recipes to delight your preschooler with holiday-themed snacks and treats, because the trick is to shape your food into Christmas symbols. It’s still useful to have recipes as examples and inspiration, so here are four quick and creative snacks that will delight your child […]
Top 4 Exciting Circle Games Your Kids Will Love
Circle time games teach private kindergartners important social skills. Taking turns, performing in front of others, and academic skills like adding and comparing numbers are vital to proper development and easy to incorporate into circle time games. Balloon Bounce – For this Circle Time game, all you need are preschoolers and a balloon. The first […]
3 Exciting Ideas For Incorporating Math In Practical Life
An important lesson for preschool students to learn is that math is a part of everyday life. Examples of how we use math in practical life begin in the kitchen, at the store, and in just about everything we do. Incorporating practical math applications at an early age prepares children to use math regularly as […]
Exciting After School Activities That Encourage Confidence
By the time she enters private kindergarten, your daughter is already developing critical self-awareness skills such as confidence, inclusion, and self-esteem. You can encourage her in developing these skills with a few afternoon activities that require personal responsibility. Pet Care Giving your private kindergarten student the task of providing food and water to the family […]
How To Teach Preschoolers About Gratitude With Crafts
Preschoolers learn better by getting their hands involved in the studies. Since this is the time of year to focus on giving thanks for our many blessings, combining crafts with important lessons is a favorite activity to engage children and encourage them to show their gratefulness. Daily Gratitude Help your preschool student make cut-outs of […]
Why Play is Important to the Montessori Method
The Montessori approach to play is different from those of play-based preschools. Montessori play is rooted in reality because Dr. Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori method, discovered that children prefer real things over the pretend. For example, if a child is given two choices: play pretend cook or play real cook, they’ll choose […]
What You Need to Know About the Awesome Child-Centered Approach to Kindergarten
The primary difference between authentic Montessori private kindergarten and traditional public school settings is simple. Public schools focus on educating children as a group, while your Montessori kindergarten educates every child as an individual. The Montessori Method creates a child-centered environment where your child will be encouraged to learn and discover at the pace which […]
Exploring the Amazing World of Montessori Activities
A Montessori preschool stands apart from others. Child-sized furniture can be found in traditional preschools, but not the child-centric arrangement of everything from the rugs on the floor to the pictures on the walls. Similarly, Montessori activities, known as work stations, are in a class by themselves. Designed to stimulate the muscles, challenge the mind, […]
What is a Montessori Prepared Environment?
Authentic Montessori private kindergartens are based on the research and observations of Maria Montessori in the early 1900s. She considered it crucial to provide children with a planned space, saying, “The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.” In this […]
What are the Origins of the Montessori Method?
Montessori preschools use a unique style of education that focuses on early education through individual independence and activity. The process involves play-based activities, physical exercise, and an awareness of one’s value in society. Who Was Maria Montessori? When Maria Montessori got her medical degree in 1896 she was one of only a few women who […]
Your Big Kid: How to Make Preschool to Elementary Transitions Fun
A child’s early years form the basis of their future development, and they form the base for lifelong learning and cognitive and social development. Therefore, the attitude that a child has towards the various stages of early education such as preschool and elementary school can affect their future performance. This is why it is vital […]