To reiterate from PART 1: My top three tips for promoting literacy and language skills at home are… Talk and listen! Read together! Promote language as holistic! To expand briefly: Talking and listening is an incredibly powerful way of helping...

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My top three tips for promoting literacy and language skills at home are… Talk and listen! Read together! Promote language as holistic! To expand briefly: Talking and listening is an incredibly powerful way of helping your child to develop language...

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Montessori Standing Nappy Changes: Why & How You may have heard that many Montessori environments promote a "standing" nappy change for toddlers, rather than placing the child in a lying position in a change table/mat. The "standing change" is a...

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To read the first entry in our Montessori Christmas Blog series please visit our post on 'Monte-Santa'.   Practical Life: a Montessori perspective on the productive, purposeful work of Christmas.    I have known many Montessori classrooms, and Montessori inspired parents, who...

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Montessori does offer many amazing benefits to children, but sometimes I think that the most valuable part of Montessori is what it doesn't do. The art of Montessori often lies in the subtle or the unseen, in the hundreds of little conscious decisions we make...

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