Teaching small children to give back to their communities is a wonderful way to instil values of empathy, compassion, and social responsibility from an early age.
Here are ten age-appropriate ways for young children to make a positive impact in their communities:
Food Drives: Children can help collect non-perishable food items for local food banks or shelters.…
There are many wonderful, important and essential skills that children learn in Montessori classrooms but one of the most fundamental is empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of another. It’s something we learn, and plays a big role in a children’s social and emotional development. An empathetic child is also more likely to…
A continents globe, map, apple and knife – that’s what you’ll need to teach your child not only the locations of the continents and their names but also, how the spherical shape of the earth translates onto a 2-Dimensional map.
In a Montessori classroom, we’d use a special continents globe whereby each continent is a particular…
When Maria Montessori thought up her philosophy on learning, modern technology was a long while away; this means that there are no specific guidelines for the management of screen-time in the Montessori classroom.