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Mixing Grades, Maximizing Learning: How Multi-age Activities Foster Growth and Discovery

Multi-age classrooms are a hallmark of Montessori education, but there are many people who don’t quite understand their purpose—let alone their benefits. We’re here to clear up questions about...

Choose Your Own Learning Adventure: How Children Can Meet Their Educational Goals Through Self-Direction

The Montessori method revolves around self-education, which is accomplished through self-direction. Instead of following the traditional model of schooling, where a teacher stands at the front of the...

Vocab Is Fab: Understanding the World through New Words

In order to succeed in school and in life, your child should always be learning new words—especially when they’re young. With a wide vocabulary, they’ll be able to understand written text and...

Safe, Warm, and Protected: How Montessori Schools Nurture Infants

If you’ve grown up believing that school begins at age five, you are not alone. In traditional schools, children typically start kindergarten when they’re five years old and progress from there....

Learning with All the Senses: 7 Activities and Materials That Stimulate Toddlers

Sensory materials help your children do what they do best—learn through play—by stimulating all five senses: touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste. Sensory play gives toddlers a chance to...

The Montessori Method and Its Impact on Twenty-First-Century Learning

Montessori education in 2023 is more popular than it’s ever been. This century is under constant transformation, and there’s no educational method that embraces that fact better than Montessori....

Montessori vs. Traditional Education: What’s the Difference?

In this article, we’ll discuss the differences between Montessori and traditional education. We find that, with parents new to the philosophy, this is one of their most common curiosities. The...

5 Ways Montessori Schools Foster Independence and Creativity

What Is Creativity? Before we get started, it helps to define Montessori education for creativity and Montessori education for independence. A creative child is one who can generate new ideas to...

4 Techniques to Help Soothe a Child Having a Tantrum

Tantrums aren’t enjoyable. But they become easier to manage when you understand them. Very young children (one to two years old) may be trying to communicate something that they need and don’t...

15 Educational Indoor Activities for Kids Stuck at Home

We’ve thought of some activities for kids at home—some to get their bodies moving, some to get their brain working—and put everything together for an all-around great time. 1. Make a DIY craft...

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All posts by ACA

Mixing Grades, Maximizing Learning: How Multi-age Activities Foster Growth and Discovery

Choose Your Own Learning Adventure: How Children Can Meet Their Educational Goals Through Self-Direction

Vocab Is Fab: Understanding the World through New Words

Safe, Warm, and Protected: How Montessori Schools Nurture Infants

Learning with All the Senses: 7 Activities and Materials That Stimulate Toddlers

The Montessori Method and Its Impact on Twenty-First-Century Learning

Montessori vs. Traditional Education: What’s the Difference?

5 Ways Montessori Schools Foster Independence and Creativity

4 Techniques to Help Soothe a Child Having a Tantrum

15 Educational Indoor Activities for Kids Stuck at Home

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