


Tomorrow’s Child – SEPTEMBER 2024 Digital Issue

Navigating Your Toddler’s First Days at a Montessori School
A GUIDE FOR PARENTS OF TODDLERS As a parent, the transition from home to school can be a whirlwind of emotions. Excitement mingles with anxiety, and there’s a mix of anticipation and uncertainty about how your child will fare in this new environment. But fear...
Supporting Young Artists with a DIY Home Easel
A Practical Life Experience for Children 16 months and up by Sarah Moudry Materials you will need • Towel bar • Towel bar brackets • 18” roll of paper meant for paint • Contact paper (to protect the wall) • Vinyl floor mat • Wall clips • Magnetic wall strip • Magnetic...
How to Deliver a Powerful, Yet Meaningful, Apology to your Teenage Child
Editor’s note: Montessori education is all about modeling the behavior we expect our children to learn. As they grow, we might not teach them how to wait for their turn to speak, but we might very well enforce their empathy, social skills and model the way we want...
Bridgeview Montessori School
A School that Lives Its Mission and Core Values Bridgeview Montessori is a 10,000 sq. ft. school designed for 95 students. It has six classrooms, a dedicated art studio, a science room, a library, a kitchen, a separate space for before-and-after-care, and small...
Nourishing the Whole Child
Healthy Eating And Wellness At Desert Garden Montessori School by Cassie Tolman Montessori education embraces the whole child to create a nourishing environment that fosters curiosity, creativity, connection to the natural world, and respect for the earth. Encouraging...
Candid Conversations
Parents & Adult Montessori Children The sun shone on the gleaming wooden boxes, the healthy plants, and the happy rabbit living quietly in the corner as I followed my daughter into a Montessori classroom for the first time. I had searched the Phoenix Valley for a...
Unveiling Geometry’s Cultural Tapestry
A Journey of Discovery & Connection by Ola Elserwi The ancient Greeks regarded drawing geometric constructions using only a compass and straightedge as essential for proving theorems. They discovered that this method facilitated problem analysis through the...
Dear Cathie – Play Kitchen
Play Kitchen DEAR CATHIE— MY DAUGHTER LOVES PLAYING IN HER COUSIN’S PLAY KITCHEN. WHENEVER WE ARE AT HER COUSIN’S HOUSE, SHE GRAVITATES TOWARD THAT ACTIVITY AND SPENDS A LOT OF TIME THERE. WE HAVE VISITED QUITE A FEW MONTESSORI PROGRAMS, AND WE NOTICE THAT THEY...
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Grab A Book – Book Reviews
Irena’s Jars of Secrets Written by Marcia Vaughan Illustrated by Ron Mazellan Jars of HOPE Written by Jennifer Roy Illustrated by Meg Owenson These are two different books, written by two different women, creating two slightly different stories, but both are about the...
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Wit and Wisdom: A Family Chat: Making Time and Space for Unstructured Play
Join Cheryl Allen, Montessori Coach at Mountain City Public School, NC, for a conversation about the benefits of unstructured playtime and how to provide for...
Wit and Wisdom: A Family Chat: “Raising Your Child the Montessori Way” with Lorna McGrath
At a recent graduation celebration, the conversation focused on creating a peaceful home environment. This month we will talk about the essential qualities or characteristics that must be present for peace in our homes as well as in the classrooms. Join us and invite...
Wit and Wisdom: A Family Chat: “What Happens When? How Parenting Styles Affect Children’s Behavior” with special guest, Chip DeLorenzo
Chip has spent almost 30 years teaching in and leading Montessori schools. He is a parenting coach, the father of five children, and most recently, the co-author of Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom.During our time together he will share stories of adult...
Book Review: Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away
EVELYN DEL REY IS MOVING AWAY Written by Meg MedinaIllustrated by Sonia Sánchez Touching. Meg Medina captures in a lovely way the feelings friends often have when they become physically distant from each other, as in a move to another town or city and the changes that...