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The Three-Year Montessori Cycle
In Montessori education, the three-year cycle is a key feature of the preschool program. It refers to the multi-age grouping of children in a classroom for three years, typically spanning ages 3-6.
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Montessori Material: The Pink Tower
“The environment itself will teach the child, every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent or teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.” – Montessori (2017) “For the child to have a true experience, she must be allowed to make mistakes.” Welcoming mistakes and accepting them might be a challenging task to follow, but the outcomes are inspiring. Whenever this idea is brought up, I think of unique material in our classroom. It is a material where mistakes result in a clamour – the kind that makes any adult’s head turn, ready for a rescue. However, if we take Montessori’s…
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Montessori Theory: The Human Tendencies
Human tendencies are potentials that are developed over time, not necessarily innate abilities. These distinctive traits are both universal and timeless.
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M is for May’s Montessori Materials: “I Spy” box
The "I Spy" box is a little box containing 8-10 various objects which helps with drawing attention to the sounds in a word and leads to spelling and writing.
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Montessori Theory: The Absorbent Mind
Have you ever thought that your child’s mind works very different to yours? Or that you wished you could jump into their mind just to understand them a little better? Maria Montessori had these exact same questions. To answer them she observed her children and discovered that the child’s mind is indeed a different mind to ours. Not only are they still constructing their brains but it has a different purpose to our own. When Maria Montessori worked at The Orthophrenic School (an institution for children with neurological disorders) she observed that children under six years old had a greater capacity to learn and work with their hands compared to…
