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by Cathie Perolman | Language, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Nature, Reading, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
Parents often wonder and worry about how to encourage children to read and how to raise a child to love literature. How can you inspire your preschooler, school-aged child, or teen to love the written word? It begins with adult modeling, sharing literature at all...
by Danica Kovacevic | Book Review TC May 2022, Book Reviews, Early Adolescence (12-15), Later Adolescence (15-18), MFA, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
Island of the Blue Dolphins By Scott O’Dell The Island of the Blue Dolphins is a historical fiction novel, based on a true story about a girl named Karana, who was stuck living in isolation for 18 years. In the story, Karana lives on an island with her family, and the...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Review TC May 2022, Book Reviews, Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), MFA, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Toddler (18 months-3 years), Tomorrow's Child
Flower Garden Written by Eve Bunting Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt Another book by Eve Bunting! This talented woman has written many books for children from two years old to teenagers, in all different settings, and in varied real-life situations. She doesn’t try to...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Review TC May 2022, Book Reviews, MFA, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Toddler (18 months-3 years), Tomorrow's Child
Hold This! As a dad and his young daughter, Mika, take a walk through the woods, Mika finds so many treasures that she wants to keep and take home. She finds a stick and a frog and some water and leaves and a sparkling stone and more. Mika wants her dad to put these...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Review TC May 2022, Book Reviews, MFA, Mixed Ages, Practical Life, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
The Vegetarian Cookbook: More than 50 Recipes for Young Cooks Written by DK publishers My son and his family are vegetarians. I wondered if there were any vegetarian cookbooks for children. So I went searching and, lo and behold, there were quite a few! I found one...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Review TC May 2022, Book Reviews, MFA, Montessori Middle School, Reading, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
Fly Away Home Written by Eve Bunting Illustrated by Ronald Himler This is a book for elementary and even middle-school children. Andrew and his dad are homeless. They live in the airport. They must never be noticed, or airport security will throw them out onto the...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, Family Resources, Language & Reading, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Parenting, Reading, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
Favorite SummerReads for 2022 by Lorna McGrath One of the many things that teachers do in the first few days of school is to ask children to talk about, write about, or in some way describe their summer activities. You remember that, right? For some of us that was...
by Dorothy Harman | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Emotionally Healthy Children, Executive Functioning, Family Resources, Grace and Courtesy, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
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by Cassi Mackey | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Emotionally Healthy Children, Grace and Courtesy, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, Prepared Environment, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
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by Cheryl Allen | Mathematics, MFA, Montessori Education, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
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by Cheryl Allen and Lorna McGrath | Emotionally Healthy Children, Family Resources, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Toddler (18 months-3 years), Tomorrow's Child
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by Carine Robin | Child's Work, Empowerment, Family Resources, Grace and Courtesy, MFA, Montessori Parenting, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
A Montessori Approach to Clean-Up Time by Carine Robin We know that Montessori is all about order. We know that children have a sense of order. The Montessori classroom is an orderly environment where every activity has its place. Montessori teachers encourage...
by Simone Davis | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Emotionally Healthy Children, Family Resources, Free Reads, Grace and Courtesy, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Toddler (18 months-3 years), Tomorrow's Child
A Montessori Approach to Clean… Beyond Rewards, Bribes, & Punishment A Montessori Approach to Building Intrinsic Motivation 42 ways that the Montessori approach builds intrinsic discipline in our children. by Simone Davies In my last article on a...
by Alicia Diaz-David | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Empowerment, Executive Functioning, Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), MFA, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Toddler (18 months-3 years), Tomorrow's Child
The Dump Truck Story What happens when we normalize ‘disaster’ thinking and accept the mess by Alicia Diaz-David When my son was two years old, he scribbled on his dump truck with a brown marker and announced that he would wash it right there in the middle of our...
by Gillett Cole | Early Adolescence (12-15), Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
RISING INNOVATORS IN CLASS by Gillett Cole As part of our microeconomics course, we partnered with Marc Seldin and Mark Tough to include a pilot of their college-level learning program called “Rising Innovators,“ for adolescents. Rising Innovators is an experiential...
by Cheryl Allen | Child's Work, Early Adolescence (12-15), Emotionally Healthy Children, Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Parenting, Nature, Practical Life, Prepared Environment, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
50 Ways to Celebrate Summer Learning by Cheryl Allen Summer is a time of more daylight, warmer temperatures, and more time outdoors. We may think that, for children who are out of school in the summer, it is not a time of learning. Yet, it can be an incredible time of...
by Mary Ellen Maunz | Child's Work, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, Prepared Environment, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
The Power of Hands-on Learning by Mary Ellen Maunz “What the hand does, the mind remembers.” – Dr. Maria Montessori If a child is able to use their hands to discover, their discoveries become more meaningful to them. The concepts they learn are much more rooted than...
by Betsy Merena | Discipline, Grace and Courtesy, MFA, Montessori Parenting, Primary (3-6), TC May 2022, Tomorrow's Child
ARE WE REALLY ALL FRIENDS? by Betsy Merena In this article, we will discuss the appropriateness of the long-standing tradition of using the term “friends” as an all-encompassing definition of peer relationships in the early childhood classroom environment. Through a...