Mar 15, 2019 | Learning through discovery, Faculty insight, 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...
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...
Nov 6, 2018 | Learning through discovery, Faculty insight, 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...
Mar 15, 2017 | Faculty insight, Student life, Montessori Model United Nations, Uncategorized
Today was both our last day of the Montessori Model United Nations conference and the last day of our trip to New York City. The six student delegates were looking sharp in their more formal business attire and were looking forward to what they all hoped would be...
Mar 15, 2017 | Faculty insight, Student life, Montessori Model United Nations, Uncategorized
Day Four and Five of our trip were the BIG WORK days. From 9-5 North Star’s student delegates were busy collaborating within their respective committees to create draft resolutions to be voted on in the General Assembly at the United Nations on the final day of...
Mar 8, 2017 | Faculty insight, Student life, Montessori Model United Nations, Uncategorized
This morning a different set of the students who had planned the route ahead of time, guided us on the subway downtown to World Trade Center Site and the One World Observatory. We quietly acknowledge the events of September 11, 2001 and the lives lost that day while...
