Parent Resources

  “The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. ”Maria Montessori From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 63 Happening this week: ...

  “Our part is to give help when we are asked. If we are careful not to interfere with a child’s activities and interests as long as they are not harmful, nature will see to his development. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents, pg 40 ...

  “We give the child nourishing food so that his little body may grow, and in just the same way we must provide him with suitable nourishment for his mental and moral growth. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents, p. 20 ...

  “Being active with one's own hands, having a determined practical aim to reach, is what really gives inner discipline. When the hand perfects itself in a work chosen spontaneously and the will to succeed is born together with the will to overcome difficulties or ...

  “In the old way the teacher made the children learn the multiplication tables by heart and then taught them to do the sums. Today children handle rods of different lengths and learn the proportions they bear to one another by arranging them accurately. This me...

  “If writing serves to correct, or rather, to direct and perfect the mechanism of speech in the child, reading assists in the development of ideas and language. In brief, writing helps a child physiologically and reading helps him socially. ”Maria Montessori T...

  ". . . let us give [the child] a vision of the whole universe. The universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions . . . all things are part of the universe, and are connected to each other to form one whole unity."Maria Montessori To Educate the H...

  “There is an age when children play; we call it the age of play. But what is play if not to do those things which entail the movement of the hands? Children need to touch, to move all the things which they find in the environment. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 L...

  “The aim of this apparatus is the same: to aid visual discrimination of size or dimensions. The sets of apparatus are colored differently and attractively, but the differences between them are the salient part. Long Rods – differ in one dimension. Broad Stai...

“The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves and they learn to be careful and precise in their movements. This is both education of movement, because there is a refinement of muscular co-ordination when the work is carefully done, and education through ...