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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...

Trying to Keep Up With Technology

Mar 8, 2019 | Learning through discovery, Uncategorized

It is becoming harder and harder to keep up with ever changing and evolving technology. With news of self-driving cars and one day living on Mars, it is difficult to stay present with what is happening right under our own roof. The idea of children embracing...

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...

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...

Orange Shirt Day- Every Child Matters!

Sep 27, 2018 | Faculty insight, Learning through discovery, Student life, Uncategorized

Tomorrow the staff and students at North Star Montessori are invited to wear orange shirts to mark Orange Shirt Day, which is officially on Sunday, September 30th.  Between the late 1800’s and 1996, the federal government forced many First Nations, Inuit,...
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