Maria Montessori carefully developed her famous learning materials such as the pink tower and the broad staircase to help children learn the basic concepts of education via the senses. You are probably familiar with some of these materials from when you come to see your child at Friday’s Child Montessori – or else you’ve heard [...]
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If you’ve been looking into early childhood education at all, you may very well have heard of phonics. This is currently the “in” way of teaching children to read. Parents of children attending Friday’s Child Montessori might wonder what phonics is all about and how it works. You might also be wondering why your child [...]
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You seem to read things in the paper on online every day about the issue of obesity and how we, as a nation, are getting fatter and unhealthier, starting in early childhood. It’s all a bit scary for a parent of pre-schoolers. How do you go about ensuring that your child won’t have health problems [...]
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More than one parent has noticed that you spend the first few years of a child’s life waiting until they can walk and talk, and you then spend the next 15 or so years getting them to sit down and shut up (apart from a brief period during the early teen years in boys when [...]
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Not that long ago (August 31st), you might have noticed that Google’s logo picture tried to create the letters using some equipment that would look very familiar to all those who have had anything to do with Montessori education. This Google Doodle, to use the technical name, was created in honour of Maria Montessori, as [...]
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Some people walk to bring their children to their Montessori early childhood centre; others don’t. But most parents of young children will walk somewhere at some time, even if it’s just down to the corner store. And it’s important to teach your children about safety – and keep them safe – when you do. Montessori [...]
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Sometimes, it seems as if the requirements of setting up your home to assist in your preschooler’s Montessori learning conflict with the requirements of having a home that’s safe for children. How do you reconcile these two important demands? If you’ve got a crawling baby or a toddler who has a lively intelligence in the [...]
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Reading aloud is one of those things that anyone interested in early childhood education, Montessori or otherwise, can’t praise highly enough. Reading aloud is wonderful for building a child’s vocabulary and helping them learn a language. It’s also great quality time between a parent and child, and it fits in very nicely to a bedtime [...]
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of the key founding principles of Montessori education is that children thrive and excel in an environment that is ordered and structured. One of the most obvious ways that a Montessori classroom is structured in space: every thing has its proper place in the shelves – set up so the child can get things for [...]
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You probably aren’t going to be able to teach your preschooler anything about advanced algebra or quadratic equations, but there is plenty that the average parent can do at home to help a child learn some of the basic foundations of mathematics. This isn’t as hard as you might think, and you probably do quite [...]
