Montessori Elementary School

The Montessori Elementary Classroom: Structure & Learning Goals

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Group of children collaborating on the floor work mat, using the Montessori Color Tablets material to practice visual discrimination of color gradients and hues

My son walked into his first-grade Montessori classroom expecting desks, textbooks, and a teacher at the front of the room. Instead, he found three sixth-graders hunched over a detailed timeline of human history they’d created. A group of second-graders was conducting a science experiment with water and different materials. Two fourth-graders were planning a field … Read more

Montessori To Traditional School: Easing The Change For Your Child

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Graphic showing a child transitioning from a Montessori classroom (left) to a traditional classroom (right) on a colorful puzzle path

The email from the public school principal arrived in March. My son had been accepted for first grade starting in September. After three years in his beloved Montessori classroom, he would be transitioning to traditional school. I felt simultaneously relieved (no more tuition payments!) and terrified (how would he possibly adapt?). That first month was … Read more