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by The Montessori Foundation Staff | Oct 3, 2021
Upper School Study Guide Student ______________________ Week of ________________ Science ____________ Skills and knowledge_________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Lessons and experiences ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Assignments ________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Math __________________ Skills and knowledge_________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Lessons and experiences ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Assignments ________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Humanities History Skills and knowledge_________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Lessons and experiences ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ […]
by Robin Howe, EdD | Sep 28, 2021
by Scott Osborne | Sep 25, 2021
by Robin Howe, EdD | Sep 25, 2021
by Christine Chapman | Sep 25, 2021
by Tim Seldin | Sep 16, 2021
The Challenge of Mathematics We use mathematics in almost every aspect of our everyday lives. As Dr. Montessori would often point out, much of our civilization is based upon mathematics. Science and technology depends upon mathematical calculations. Computers are totally mathematical devices. Businesses, research, and governmental agencies all rely upon the collection and interpretation of […]
by The Montessori Foundation Staff | Sep 15, 2021
By Dr. Bonny Olney If you attended public school growing up, you all remember “the film” we watched in fourth grade, boys in one room and girls in another. For us girls it was all about female anatomy and this complicated graph of the menstrual cycle. (I also remember being pulled out and disciplined for […]
by The Montessori Foundation Staff | Sep 13, 2021
by Jamie Wheal “Schools as they are today are adapted neither to the needs of adolescence nor to the times in which we live.” –Maria Montessori “College admissions, wrote psychologist Michael Thompson in a recent essay on the subject, “can make normal people act nutty and nutty people act quite crazy.” The pressures of this […]
by Tim Seldin | Sep 13, 2021
Adolescence Without Tears – The Montessori High School A special issue from Tomorrow’s Child. Adolescence is the middle ground between childhood and the world of adults. Teenagers are neither child nor adult. One minute they are one, next the other. Their bodies are growing overnight, and as sudden spurts of growth begin, they often become […]
by Tim Seldin | Sep 10, 2021
by Tim Seldin Paul Epstein | Sep 10, 2021
by Tim Seldin | Sep 3, 2021
by Scott Osborne | Jul 28, 2021
by Tim Seldin | Jul 21, 2021
by Lorna McGrath | Jun 16, 2021
by Dawn Quigley This is the story of a girl in middle school whose name is Apple. Her mother was a Native American who died hours after Apple was born and her father was a very well-to-do European American who was left to raise Apple. From her birth to middle school Apple knew little to […]
by Lorna McGrath | Jun 15, 2021
by Michael Crump | May 15, 2021
from Tomorrow’s Child Magazine – May, 2021 | by The Montessori Foundation [Dropcap]A[Dropcap]fter the second of three children left for college, we began to experience the initial feelings that may come with the reality of being empty nesters. We still have one incredible teenager in the house, and she is very “easy on the adult.” […]
by Scott Osborne | May 12, 2021
