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Ten Little Rocks

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By Sara Bloomberg How many times have you casually cleaned out your child’s pockets or lunch bags and found a vast collection of rocks which your children have meticulously hunted? For most 3-6-year-old children, rocks are the stuff of dreams. To children, rocks are often more valuable than the most precious metals. Each rock holds […]

Learning About Germs and Hygiene

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  Talking to young children about the concept of “germs” can be quite challenging!  Preschoolers have a hard time conceptualizing things that they cannot experience through their senses.  However, in this era when lives have been turned topsy turvy because of a global pandemic, the conversation about germs is difficult to put off!   The Germs […]

Cosmic Education and its Role in the Elementary Classroom

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I am pleased to welcome Sharmeen Niazi of MOM_tessori_Guide to Trillium!  Sharmeen is a Montessori Elementary guide at the Archgate Montessori Academy in Dallas, TX.  Today she is sharing with us some insights about the role of cosmic education in the Elementary classroom. Keeping into consideration the inquisitive minds during the second plane of development, […]

Learning About Ramadan

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  This post contains affiliate links. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.  The Muslim calendar is a lunar calendar, which means that the months follow the cycles of the moon.  This also means that the months do not correspond to the western calendar months.  Each year, Ramadan is approximately 11 days earlier […]

Cosmic Nesting Dolls

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  “Let us give the children a vision of the universe.” Maria Montessori in To Educate the Human Potential. Cosmic nesting dolls available from Where Am I? “Cosmic Education is intended to help each of us search for our cosmic task as a species and as individuals. To do this, we must understand ourselves in […]

A Tour of Erin’s Montessori Classroom

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I recently had the opportunity to visit my friend Erin Roberts in Asheville, NC.  I’ve known Erin for about 14 years.  We worked together at the Montessori School of Syracuse and she is one of the small handful of people I’ve met who seem to have been born with an intuitive understanding of Montessori. A […]

Physical Activity and Motor Planning Resources for the Classroom

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Today I’d like to feature the Physical Activity sets available from Pink Oatmeal. These materials are not exactly “Montessori”, but they can most certainly be adapted for a Montessori setting. Affiliate links are used below.  See full disclosures here. PINK OATMEAL The Ultimate Physical Activity and Motor Planning Membership Pink Oatmeal is run by Chanda […]