Is my child ready for preschool? Preschool readiness is not about letters or numbers. It is about independence, emotional development, and finding an environment that supports your child’s natural growth from ages 2 to 5.
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Montessori independence begins long before a child can speak. This article guides parents through each stage of development and shows how independence grows year by year.
Exploring how Montessori’s timeless approach to independence and curiosity still gives families an edge in a world of new education trends. Education Has Changed. Parenting Has Too. Most of today’s parents grew up in classrooms where authority was rarely questioned. Whatever the teacher said was “the law,” whether it was right or wrong. School was
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A Deep Dive into the Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) Math Curriculum and how it empowers advanced math skills in 3 to 6-year-olds. Math is perhaps the most dreaded subject in conventional schools. Students everywhere bemoan that it’s boring, irrelevant, and utterly mystifying. In studying math, a student often finds that maybe he can memorize and obey the arbitrary algorithms
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Children in a Montessori environment make stunning achievements. Infants as young as 6-months-old learn to drink from an open cup made from real glass. Toddlers as young as 18-months-old learn to put on their own coats and shoes. Preschoolers as young as 2.5 to 3 years old build the foundation of phonics and often read
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In many ways, the signature feature of a Montessori Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) is its language curriculum. From the moment a child enters at 2.5 to 3-years-old, she begins building the foundation of literacy with engaging games and hands-on study of phonics. Once she’s in her capstone Kindergarten year, all the preparation and work up to that
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A look at Guidepost’s partner teacher-training institute, Prepared Montessorian Institute, and how it provides guides best-in-class training When you observe a 20-month-old toddler serve herself a snack, throw away scraps and stack her dirty plate when she finishes, and wash her hands before going back to work—all without a word of reminder from an adult—the
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Learn how practical life activities in Montessori provide scope and sequence for everyday routines and practices One of the pleasures of watching a child grow is being shocked out of taking the mundane for granted. The most ordinary things that we seemingly know without thinking and can do without trying, are for the child wondrous,
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Learn about how you can introduce Montessori into your home from the day your baby is born Montessori education is most commonly associated with Montessori schools, but it’s not limited to those four walls. Anyone – parents, caregivers, educators – can make a Montessori environment at home. Those first few moments after becoming a parent
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The Montessori curriculum is thoughtfully built around teaching children the many elements of reading and writing one by one, in an accessible and enjoyable way Reading and writing are sometimes taken for granted by adults who have mastered the skills—but looking at them from a child’s perspective, they are skills of Herculean difficulty. Literacy is
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