My Montessori House

We wanted to share David Royko's insightful first-person chronicles of living with his son's autism in The Chronicles of Ben .

We had to laugh when With Building Blocks, Educators Going Back to Basics appeared in the NYTimes online. This very interesting article ou...

A traditional Montessori olfactory exercise in the Sensorial area is the Smelling Bottle exercise in which there are several sets of matchin...

Our Montessori teaching albums all discuss the importance of books for your home or school classroom. Even infants are provided with large ...

This post is designed for parents and teachers who have just purchased our Montessori teaching albums , but it should be useful for everyone...

A few parents from Australia have asked for site ideas, so I thought to post the link to Bright Tomato Learning here. In the US, I have du...

Many of you are already familiar with the basics of the well-known Montessori three period lesson: Present, ask what was presented using th...

A parent wrote in from Greece with questions on presenting the Primary Year One binder to her child in a way that would help introduce Engli...

Montessori uses small deliberate steps to build your child's critical thinking skills. For example, very young children are introduced t...

Start with the work in our previous post. When your child is comfortable with the first set or so of cards, add a photography component to ...

You can make a beginning set of entomology cards for your child when he or she is in the first or second year of Primary class. These would...

Foldit is a web site that allows one to log to solve real puzzles in science. I like this video and explanation for all students, including...

We are now offering Jan Katzen-Luchenta's book, "Nutrition for Learning: Feeding the Starving Brain ," for sale in an Adobe PD...

Once your child has used the sand tray, the sandpaper letters, and formed basic CVC words with the movable alphabet, you can introduce words...

After watching a tutor at the library jam a bunch of flashcards in front of what seemed to be a first or second grader, I wanted to jot down...

If your child is home for the summer, try mini field trips to common spots such as a library, bookstore, farmers market, hardware store, lum...

Learn more about smolt from this enterprising college student! Traditionally, children work with zoology classification and fact cards in ...

This morning, I came across a splendid article on the NYTimes online, Why Study Hyenas? , by Kay Holecamp, and wanted to share it with every...

Summertime brings a wide range of opportunities for you to introduce your child to fresh fruits and vegetables as you work with him or her a...

The Bilingual Advantage by Claudia Dreifus in the NYTimes online discusses the overall cognitive benefits to children of learning and speak...

Wow, the Doodble 4 Google competition yielded some amazing art! Check out the K-3 section on Google . This illustration is titled "Got...

The Montessori Three-Period lesson is a well-known staple of the Montessori teaching method. We discuss it in more detail in our teaching m...

We post on this topic occasionally, and here are some fresh thoughts on a long-standing issue of how to find a good school and teachers. Yo...

Our posts and focus is on children from birth through third grade, so we want to share the importance of no dieting for children in this age...

Kindergarten Shop Class , an excellent article by Julie Scelfo , that provides wonderful descriptions of young children using tools and work...

A group of 8- to 10-year-old children discovered that: "Science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has done before...

During the last few days, I got in several compelling questions from parents who had purchased both our teaching albums and DVDs, so we hav...

Maintain your patience! We realize that a lot of parents are starting to teach their children at home because they are unhappy with their c...

You've got to check out the Barnes & Noble's Children's Book Awards page to take a peek at current and past children's...

Wow, there is a great arugula and mint pesto recipe on Tracey Miller's site . I call it inspiration for everyone's Montessori Pract...

Talking with a parent in Canada this morning, she suggested a super useful blog, Counting Coconuts . It is indeed beautiful with tons of u...

As we started compiling projects and lists, we realized that Ann Zeise's A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling already had a fantastic l...

This Green Anemone photo is the photo of the day on the National Geographic site. These daily photos with their descriptions provide a wo...

The recent Rocks, Ice and Science in Antarctica featured in the NYTImes.com inspired us to post these ideas on helping your child explore s...

While we love the traditional wooden maps in the Montessori classroom, there is no denying the fact that they are expensive! We encourage y...

We have full-color printable books for sale in Adobe PDF format. They provide hundreds of pages for a great price. For all of the parents a...

Wow, Jim Doble at Elemental Designs has an online app that lets you hear some of his magnificent handmade xylophones. I posted about his in...

An educational site about bees! "Like most other insects, the honey bee (Apis mellifera) has compound eyes - hundreds of single eyes (c...

I found a wonderful short video about Kindergarten at The Park School. It discusses their focus on reading. The tuition at Park School is ...

"They play tunes beyond compare, dancing through my crazy hair" is one of the wonderfully emotive lines in Neil Gaiman's wor...

Today's New York Times Online edition featured, Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children , by Julie Bosman . An excellent discussio...

Just as we were looking for good examples of wooden toys, we found this excellent site in Australia, Eco Toys, with this Plan Toys Construct...

For those of you in classrooms or child-care setups, we suggest a large refrigerator in which all lunches can be stored. The assures that e...

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"Waiting for Superman" has generated lots of buzz and controversy among educators and parents. And it is almost here for viewing!...

In our Montessori curriculum for parents teaching at home , we discuss the need for vigorous physical activity as part of the regular day. ...

For everyone who has asked us about history materials, Montessori for Everyone has just released their beautiful and brand-new Ancient Rome...

This is the first box of Color Tablets with six tablets that include three pairs for red, blue, and yellow. Making the Color Tablets is an ...

Start a gift-giving tradition in your family of giving books. Shop for the perfect gift book for your spouse or parent and take your child ...

One lovely exercise in the Montessori practical life section is flower arranging. Children gather flowers and leaves, prepare them, and arr...

We just included the Montessori Bell sets in the new edition of our Primary Year One curriculum with some trepidation. The bells are so exp...

Once your child has mastered the basics of color name and color association for the primary and secondary colors, he or she can begin work w...

The New York Times article by David Leonhardt The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers is certainly an eye-catching title, but I wondere...

The active, exploratory, and outdoor component of a Montessori education cannot be emphasized enough. In addition to child-sized environmen...

Most of you have worked with the standard Red Rods presentation in the Sensorial section of your Montessori room at home or school. Once you...

One of the beginning lessons in the Primary class is how to properly cover coughs and sneezes: Turn your mouth the crook of your arm (inside...

Active outdoor play is a regular part of your child's Montessori day that should be scheduled into the day at least once in addition to ...

Our stereognostic sense allows us to identify objects by touch. Many of the pieces of equipment in the Montessori classroom's Sensorial...

We found a very useful write-up by Jan-Katzen-Luchenta, "The Making of Great Little People – A Diet For Little Learners: Food balancing...

This is a lot of material circulating about dealing with children's behavioral problems, so we wanted to discuss here the issue of healt...

We have gotten a few questions about where to purchase equipment, so here are a few ideas: Nienhuis The original Montessori equipment manufa...

All you need for this simple exercise is a pair of child-safe scissors, a ruler, a pencil, and construction paper. Prepare the exercise by ...

This is a fun, and cool, way to illustrate the difference between heat conductors and insulators. You may want to have several metal and ru...

A wonderful project for children who are working on their beginning writing skills is to create handmade books. Ribbon-bound books provide ...

Looking for some sentence diagramming review before you present it to your child? We found a very useful video online that we wanted to shar...

Our recent post on Montessori and Brain Development on our Montessori for Infants and Toddlers blog turned out to apply to all ages, so we ...

This is a great hands-on project for children of any age. Material needed: 1. One bowl 2/3 full of uncooked rice grains 2. Ten large pieces ...

The New York Times online had a very useful article titled In a World of Ads, Teaching the Young How to Read Them that I highly recommend. ...

Did you bookmark this blog? This blog is now located at http://blog.mymontessorihouse.com/ (you may be on it now, however). You will...

This looked like a fun and educational writing contest, plus it has a cash prize of $500 that will cover a few text books. Foreign Affairs W...