• Weekly Update March 8 - 15

    March 8th, 2024


    Weekly Update  March 8 - 15
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update March 1 - 8

    March 1st, 2024


    Weekly Update  March 1 - 8
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Feb. 23

    February 23rd, 2024


    Weekly Update  Feb. 23
    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...

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  • Weekly Update Feb. 16 - Feb. 23

    February 16th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Feb. 16 - Feb. 23
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Feb. 9 - Feb. 16

    February 9th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Feb. 9 - Feb. 16
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Feb. 2 - Feb. 9

    February 2nd, 2024


    Weekly Update  Feb. 2 - Feb. 9
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Jan. 26 - Feb. 2

    January 26th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Jan. 26 - Feb. 2
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Jan. 19 - 26

    January 19th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Jan. 19 - 26
    “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 ...

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  • Weekly Update Jan. 12 - 19

    January 12th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Jan. 12 - 19
    “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 ...

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  • Weekly Update Jan. 5 - 12

    January 5th, 2024


    Weekly Update  Jan. 5 - 12
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Dec. 29 - Jan. 5

    December 30th, 2023


    Weekly Update Dec. 29 - Jan. 5
    Welcome Back!  Classes resume Wednesday January 3rd, 2024! Happening this week: Wednesday, Jan. 3rd:Classes resume   Thursday, Jan. 4th: ...

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  • Weekly Update Dec. 15 - Dec. 22

    December 15th, 2023


    Weekly Update Dec. 15 - Dec. 22
    “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 ...

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  • Weekly Update Dec. 8 - Dec. 15

    December 8th, 2023


    Weekly Update Dec. 8 - Dec. 15
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Dec. 1 - Dec. 8

    December 1st, 2023


    Weekly Update Dec. 1 - Dec. 8
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Nov. 24 - Dec. 1

    November 24th, 2023


    Weekly Update Nov. 24 - Dec. 1
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Nov. 17 - Nov. 24

    November 17th, 2023


    Weekly Update Nov. 17 - Nov. 24
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Nov. 10 - Nov. 17

    November 10th, 2023


    Weekly Update Nov. 10 - Nov. 17
    “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...

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  • Weekly Update Nov. 3 - Nov. 10

    November 3rd, 2023


    Weekly Update Nov. 3 - Nov. 10
    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 ...

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  • Weekly Update Oct. 27 - Nov. 3

    October 27th, 2023


    Weekly Update Oct. 27 - Nov. 3
    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...

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