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Promoting language at home: 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 your child to develop language...

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Standing Nappy Changes: Why & How

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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Outside The Box

Outside the box. Once upon a time there was a box...  And there was a little girl who just didn't fit that box.   Everywhere she went this girl could see the box, and almost everyone else that she met...

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The joyful work of a Montessori Christmas!

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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Monte-santa

Merry Montessori Christmas! One of my favourite things about the Montessori method is that it can so seamlessly into the life of the child, the family and the school. When the method is understood, and the adult is ‘prepared’, there...

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