Seminar in Middle School creates opportunities for students to extend their understanding and interpretation of a text by intertwining social interaction, communication, and the growing power of the adolescent intellect. Students prepare for seminar discussions by closely reading and annotating a short story or other rich text. Next they prepare interpretive questions that have more […]
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Great work is one characteristic of the Second Plane Child. What was once repetition, completing the same work over and over in the Primary classrooms, becomes repetition through elaboration in the Elementary classrooms. In this plane, children have a new found desire to do large projects that require an extensive amount of time and energy, […]
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Practical Life is the foundation for building independence, concentration, refining movement and sense of order and responsibility. Grace and Courtesy are lessons that we give to small groups of children that teach them how to be and act in the classroom. Grace and Courtesy lessons give the child vocabulary and movements that enable him to […]
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by Ella Procaccinti In September of 2020, the sixth years took on an ambitious project to maintain the Quest community library. The goal was to create a library full of books that were up to date and diverse. When the project began, the library was stocked with approximately 900 books, 150 of which were deemed […]
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We all want our children to be be peaceful and accepting of others, and it is never too early to start teaching them to embrace diversity. Too often, we falsely imagine that young children do not notice what makes them different from each other. However they do notice, and instead of waiting for them to […]
Read MoreOne of the many joyful aspects of a Montessori environment is food preparation. Learning how to prepare one’s own food is a critical life skill, and it has always been a part of Montessori learning. While toddlers learn to sit together and gracefully serve and share food, at age three our primary students begin to […]
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