Simple, Montessori-inspired strategies to stop the morning chaos and help your toddler or preschooler get out the door without tears or power struggles. Does your morning look something like this? You’re trying to get out the door, but your child refuses to get dressed. They’re melting down about which shoes to wear. They want to […]
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How to Celebrate a Montessori Birthday at Home or in the Classroom with Walking Around the Sun Birthdays are more than cake and candles. In Montessori, they are a quiet, meaningful celebration of who a child is and how far they have come. At Guidepost Montessori, we honor this day with a simple ritual called Walking
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Practical strategies for parenting toddlers ages 2–4: managing big emotions, setting limits, and teaching self-control with calm consistency Parenting in the Storm Parenting toddlers and young preschoolers can feel like living with a tiny storm. One moment your child is giggling, the next they are grabbing a toy, hugging a friend who isn’t ready, or
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Guidepost Global Education (GGE) announces its formation as a leading global Montessori network.
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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In this short guide, we will walk you through what a Montessori bed is and why you might consider choosing one for your young child. A recent surge of interest in the Montessori Method, coupled with increased time spent working and learning remotely, means parents are becoming more interested in setting up Montessori-aligned home environments for their
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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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Explore why the third year of Children’s House, which corresponds with the age that children traditionally start kindergarten, is so critically important. Our Children’s House programs, like all high-fidelity Montessori programs, exist on a three-year cycle. Not experiencing the culmination of the first two years of work and progress is like stopping a movie before
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