Thank you to everyone for the wonderful Spring Play and Song Fest 2022. I am so proud to see everyone blossom during the play. I saw children’s confidence, independence, hard work, leadership, and teamwork. I am so happy to witness a few transformations in the children during the play. Some shyness ...
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Let’s Discover How Word Awareness Is Developed for Reading
Word awareness is the understanding that a phrase or sentence is made up of individual words. It’s also the ability to manipulate words in phrases and sentences which includes playing with compound words. Word awareness is the most basic level of phonological awareness and seems incredibly ...
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Why the Experience of the Third Year Is Irreplaceable
We want to share with you this article by Peter Davidson. It is a good explanation of the benefits of the third year of Montessori school and why it is so important for students.
By now it must be second nature to you all that Montessori Primary classrooms are multi-age environments that follow a ...
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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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Assist Your Child with Alphabetic Principle to Be a Better Reader
The Alphabetic Principle is the concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in spoken words. We want our children to understand there is a systematic relationship between speech sounds and printed letters.
The two important foundations of the alphabetic principle are Letter ...
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COVID-19 Updates
The goal of Valley Forge Kinder House Montessori School continues to be providing a genuine, high quality Montessori program in an environment that is safe, caring and supportive of the children and their families.
Masking Guidelines Update
Updated May 2, 2022
Starting tomorrow, May 3rd, ...
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Areas of a Montessori Toddler Classroom Series: Practical Life
Practical Life is the heart of the Montessori curriculum. The activities in the Practical Life area of the classroom are oftentimes the most beloved by the children. These are activities that they see adults do every day, but may not have the opportunity to do on their own at home. These activities ...
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Developing Reading Comprehension for Young Readers
During the past few months, we have explored the development of both decoding sounds and language comprehension. As a review, decoding is the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words. Language comprehension is the ability to derive meaning from ...
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