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85% of Brain Formed By 3: What Are You Doing To Support Your Child?

Mar 15, 2019 | Faculty insight, Learning through discovery, Student life

Last month I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the annual AMI-USA Montessori Refresher Course in New Orleans. Being that Montessori for under 3 year olds is fairly ‘new’ to Canada (limited number of schools offer this here) it was very important for me to attend...

Communication Skill Building: Easy Steps For Children To Hold Others Accountable

Mar 13, 2019 | Faculty insight, Student life, Uncategorized

While taking a course in Crucial Accountability, I realized how much easier my life would have been if I had been taught this skill at a younger age. Learning the skill to successfully hold others accountable when faced with a broken promise has had significant...

Keeping Practical Life Practical

Nov 6, 2018 | Faculty insight, Learning through discovery, Student life, Uncategorized

The Practical Life area in the Montessori classroom is one of the key ways to help a child achieve normalization. This area is the basis for all the rest. It directly and indirectly prepares the children for all the Sensorial, Language, and Mathematics activities. The...

Finding the Solutions Behind the Symptoms (ADHD, anxiety…)

Nov 1, 2018 | Faculty insight, Learning through discovery, Parent's perspective, Uncategorized

In Canada, 6.1% of school age children have ADHD. 11.6% are diagnosed with mood and/or anxiety disorders. 31.5% are overweight with 11.7% classified as obese and these percentages are increasing. Parents, teachers and medical professionals are equally concerned about...

Alternatives to Punishment

Oct 30, 2018 | Faculty insight, Parent's perspective, Uncategorized

This article is a blog post written by Maren Schmidt www.marenschmidt.com. When you sign up for her Kids Talk blog,  you will receive a free copy of her book titled, 7 Parenting Problems You Can Avoid.  “Maren has over 30 years experience working with...

Supporting Beginning Readers and Writers at Home

Oct 22, 2018 | Faculty insight, Learning through discovery, Uncategorized

Following our recent Elementary parent night on Language, I wanted to pass along some tips for helping children to develop foundational reading and writing skills to those parents who could not make it that evening. While reading can come very easily to some children...
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