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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There are a lot of benefits for children if they are included in traditional family games, meaning board games and card games. You might wonder if your preschool child is too young to start playing card games, but you might be surprised. Sure, a three-year-old isn’t going to be ready to join in a game [...]
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It won’t be long until summer is here, and with the warmer weather come more chances to get outdoors and relax. Anywhere outside on a sunny day is good for a picnic, whether it’s a park, the beach or even your back garden. If you have a cricket player in your family, a picnic is [...]
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Children grow up so fast and this might be your second springtime for your children at Friday’s Child Montessori. The changing seasons are nature’s way of marking the passing of time, and it’s fun for children to do special activities for each one. And for parents, it’s a way of savouring the time you have [...]
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Even if you try to have a household where the TV is turned on as little as possible so your pre-schooler can spend their time more profitably in imaginative play and the like, the rules tend to be relaxed a bit every four years when the Olympic Games come on. It’s certainly the case in [...]
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On cold, rainy winter evenings, it can be a lot of fun to have a fabric handcraft. With many fabric based handcrafts, you don’t even have to give up watching your favourite TV programmes, as a lot of them can be done on your lap while watching. They’re great for kids to do and they’re [...]
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Easter time comes at the wrong time of the year for us living on the Gold Coast. All those European traditions involving fluffy yellow chicks, daffodils and the like seem rather irrelevant, in spite of all their “new life” symbolism. And there’s only so much chocolate you can really give a child without making him [...]
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A lot of parents whose children go to Friday’s Child Montessori like a good game of cards – I think most Australians like playing Five Hundred, and I doubt there’s a single household that doesn’t have at least one pack tucked away somewhere. These days, playing cards are considered perfectly respectable, and you’d be hard [...]
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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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These Cockies are cheeky at fridays Child Montessori Gold Coast. If Laurena doesn’t feed them they send one of their group over to her office window sill, where it sits and taps on the glass until she comes out with food! Smart bird the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo and great fun for the children to watch [...]
