Category Archives: The Montessori Materials

If you haven’t heard of fidget spinners or their like, these are a class of toys originally meant to help children with ADD or ADHD focus better but now have become a bona fide toy craze. In fact, the Fidget Spinner fad of 2017 has opened up a whole new category of popular “stim” toys […]

As a parent, your youth may have been full of toys like dolls, blocks, racing sets, rocking horses, and wagons. Yet your own child has been born into a world that’s awash with tablets, smartphones, and computers. Yes, computers are wildly educational, but you likely believe that your children spend an inordinate amount of time […]

Recently the children have been working hard on the Metal Insets for Design, which are a part of the literacy area of our classrooms. Maria Montessori argued that it was easier for the child under six to write before s/he can read. For a child to write legibly with a light hand and speedily without […]