I’ve had many parents think that Montessori sounded great but then they get a little nervous thinking about the idea that a child with all that choice might avoid an area completely, or only play with one thing. It certainly takes a lot of trust to follow the child. To understand that children have a natural […]
Inspiration from these Montessori classrooms – Sydney, Australia
Over the summer, I was back in Sydney to visit my family and took a day to get some inspiration from these Montessori classrooms! It was such an inspiring day. 1. Morning visit at a parent-toddler class, Balmain In the morning, I observed a session of the parent-toddler class at Inner Sydney Montessori School. The […]
A Montessori moment – those moments in the class that remind us why we “Montessori”
From time to time, I’ll share here a Montessori moment or two. You know those moments when you think to yoursel, “this is why I do Montessori.” In my class today, one of the children had put some hair clips in their hair. On deciding they didn’t want them anymore, they slid them out and […]
Tour of a Montessori toddler classroom in Amsterdam
In my last newsletter I showed people a picture of our Montessori toddler classroom after we’d just started back to school after the summer break: I’d made a few changes and I asked if people would like to have a look around. And it was a unanimous “yes please!”. So I did a little Facebook […]