If your child brings home math work, you may be surprised to see enormous numbers. What’s this all about?
The Montessori Elementary Math materials and practices support the manipulation and comprehension of large numbers. Using large numbers is not the goal, but it happens that Montessori Math ...
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Pen Pals: Crossing the Curriculum and the World
Engaging in a pen pal program with another Montessori School can be a wonderful growth experience for our Montessori Elementary students. They are in the second plane of development when cultivating social interactions with their peers becomes one of the most prominent aspects of their ...
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Elementary Class Updates
This year’s elementary class is focusing on caring for our own elementary environment, getting to know the great big world outside of it, and establishing our work ethic to prepare ourselves to serve in that world. We are encouraging the 6-12-year-olds to learn the expectations that our culture has ...
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Music to Our Ears
Maria Montessori’s program of Cosmic Education for Elementary students is to “give the child the universe” and that, of course, includes music. The music that we do in the elementary classroom reflects the way we do everything.
Music is presented sensorially, in a way that appeals to the senses, ...
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Holiday Happenings in the Elementary Classroom
Our Elementary community had a busy fall celebrating and learning about holidays.
Rosh Hashanah
We were treated to delicious Challah, hand braided by Mrs. Paseltiner, at the time of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. She taught us how the intricate braid is woven with bread dough.
Fall ...
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Elementary Endeavors
The children of the Elementary Class were busy this late fall gelling into a true community of learners. We are focusing on establishing classroom and individual routines that will facilitate our progress as a cooperative body and each person’s growth as an independent learner.
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Montessori Elementary: The “Why” of Cosmic Education
“The cosmic plan of education for the elementary child is to help him understand the universe and man’s place in it.”Margaret Stephenson, prominent Montessori theoretician and trainer
Cosmic Education exposes the child to the universe so that she will understand relationships and respond to ...
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Cosmic Education: The Montessori Elementary Program
Maria Montessori called her plan for the elementary-aged child, “Cosmic Education”, referencing her conviction that the limits of the course of study extend into the cosmos. The child in the elementary years is characterized by an intellectual ability to reason and imagine, a sociable nature, a ...
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