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Weekly Update May 10 - 17
May 10th, 2024
“During this period of growth [childhood] the child learns spontaneously, without tiring; he observes the things around him (one might even say he studies them) and absorbs them, thereby invigorating himself. ”Maria Montessori Citizen of the World Happening ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update May 3 - 10
May 3rd, 2024
“He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. ”Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p. 25 Happening this week:Friday, May 3rd: ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update April 26 - May 3
April 26th, 2024
Thank you to all who participated in our Spring Clean Up, giving of yourselves for the betterment of our community. “We can see clearly what is necessary to give in order to help the child. It is to give the possibility of independence, of living t...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update April 19 - 26
April 19th, 2024
“It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Lectures Friday, April 19th: ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update April 12 - April 19
April 12th, 2024
“When they arrive in the morning, there are many things to attend to. The children look after the classroom. They sweep with their own small brooms and dust and scrub and polish. Then there is their personal cleanliness. When a child’s hands are dirty, we do not take him to the basin and wash hi...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update April 5 - April 12
April 5th, 2024
“Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they live, without concerning themselves as to whether it is for their own, or for the common good. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Child ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update March 29 - April 5
March 29th, 2024
“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and therefore the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child, who lives as a rule for the passing mo...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update March 22-29
March 22nd, 2024
“When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organized order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with order, perseverance, and discipline, persistently and naturally; the permanent, calm and vivifying work of the physical organism resembles the res...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update March 8 - 15
March 8th, 2024
“We tend to think that the realm of music is the privileged area of some happy few. Experience has taught us, however, that if offered the right kind of education from a very early age onwards, anyone is capable of entering the realm of music. Not everyone has the talent to practise music at an ar...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update March 1 - 8
March 1st, 2024
“As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile glasses inside. There is no need to worry about his ungainly movements [...] they will vanish of their own accord. ”Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori S...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Feb. 23
February 23rd, 2024
Friday, Feb. 23rd:There will be no aftercare today. This is an evening you won't want to miss and will be our one major fundraiser of the year. PURCHASE ADMISSION TICKETS Bidding opens this morning at 8:00am and continu...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Feb. 16 - Feb. 23
February 16th, 2024
“No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a “reward” or by fear of what we call a “punishment”.... Every victory and every advance in human progress comes from an inner compulsion. ”Maria Montessori Th...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Feb. 9 - Feb. 16
February 9th, 2024
“In our schools we allow the children to use their spontaneous activity by offering them objects which call for movements appropriate to their stage of development; in this way they learn through doing. This is their work, and their concentration and perseverance is astonishing. ”Maria Monte...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Feb. 2 - Feb. 9
February 2nd, 2024
“We must study the correlation between life and its environment. In nature everything correlates. This is the method of nature. Nature is not concerned with the conservation of individual life: it is a harmony, a plan of construction. Everything fits into the plan: winds, rocks, earth, water, p...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Jan. 26 - Feb. 2
January 26th, 2024
“The mathematical mind is a mind which is especially interested in mathematics. Instead of finding mathematics idiotic and absurd, it finds them interesting and absorbing. It is a fact that most of the children in our Montessori Schools do achieve great enthusiasm in doing mathematics. It is th...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Jan. 19 - 26
January 19th, 2024
“Not only can imagination travel through infinite space, but also through infinite time; we can go backwards through the epochs, and have the vision of the earth as it was, with the creatures that inhabited it. ”Maria Montessori To Educate the Human Potential, p. 10 ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Jan. 12 - 19
January 12th, 2024
“Grown-ups think of play as a purposeless occupation that keeps children happy and out of mischief, but actually when children are left to play by themselves very little of their activity is purposeless. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents, p. 31 ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Jan. 5 - 12
January 5th, 2024
“A child does not know why he is interested in a particular object or movement at a particular moment – the important thing is that he is interested, and that it is natural for his mind to grow just as his body does, therefore what interests him at the moment is appropriate for his needs. ”Ma...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Dec. 29 - Jan. 5
December 30th, 2023
Welcome Back! Classes resume Wednesday January 3rd, 2024! Happening this week: Wednesday, Jan. 3rd:Classes resume Thursday, Jan. 4th: ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Dec. 15 - Dec. 22
December 15th, 2023
“We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed of character traits; his abilities give him great satisfaction, and he smiles with a sweet and joyous smile. ”Maria Montessori Citizen of the World, p. 96 ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Dec. 8 - Dec. 15
December 8th, 2023
“It is tremendously important that we should understand the spontaneous way in which the child develops himself. We are so anxious to help, to us it seems the burden of growth and development is so great that we must do all we can to make the pathway easy. And so our love may easily overreac...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Dec. 1 - Dec. 8
December 1st, 2023
“We must give them the means and encourage them. ‘Courage, my dear, courage! You are a new man/woman that must adapt to this new world. Go on triumphantly. I am here to help you.’ This kind of encouragement is instinctive in those who love children. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Le...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Nov. 24 - Dec. 1
November 24th, 2023
“Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their coloured blossoms. They find their greatest pleasure in acting, in knowing, in exploring, even apart from the attraction of external beauty. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Chi...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Nov. 17 - Nov. 24
November 17th, 2023
“It is not yet realized that there are two powerful forces in human life: that which drives the formation of man (childhood) and that which drives the construction of society (adulthood). These forces are so closely meshed that, if one is neglected, the other cannot be attained. There is no awa...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Nov. 10 - Nov. 17
November 10th, 2023
“The spontaneous urge towards development, which is within the child, dictates its own pace. It is the part of a wise and loving parent to stand by, to watch the little one’s activities, to observe his growth rather than to try to force it. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parent...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Nov. 3 - Nov. 10
November 3rd, 2023
November 3rd - November 10th, 2023 “Now what is it that strikes the imagination? Above all, grandeur and, next, mystery. The imagination is then able to reconstruct the whole when it knows the real detail. ”Maria Montessori From ...Posted in: Weekly Update -
Weekly Update Oct. 27 - Nov. 3
October 27th, 2023
October 27th - November 3rd, 2023 “We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed of character traits; his abilities give him great satisfaction, and he smile...Posted in: Weekly Update