Material Spotlight – Puzzle maps, sharing our cultural heritage and beyond
What a wealth of opportunity there is to be found in the Montessori puzzle maps.…
Material Spotlight – The Large Number Rods
Maths... Ask any new group of adult learners who is comfortable with and likes Maths,…
Material Spotlight – Geometric Solids
This is a material that is greatly undervalued in our Montessori pre and primary schools.…
Material Spotlight – The Discussion Folders
Although discussion folders were not originally designed by Maria Montessori, they feature in most Montessori…
Food For Thought
EXPLORING OUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY We are halfway through a memorable month! Women’s month here in…
Material Spotlight – The Sandpaper Letters
Many children show great joy in learning the sounds of the letters of the alphabet…
Our Human Quest For Independence
The planes of development In studying the children’s development, Montessori came to the conclusion that…
Material Spotlight – The Knobbed Cylinders
Montessori is one of many educationalists to support education through the senses. The Montessori classroom…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
IS IT STILL WORK IF THE CHILD HAS NOT FREELY CHOSEN THE ACTIVITY? Inspired by…
Who is this Montessori adult?
A special kind of training Montessori said that the teachers of her method should receive…
Food For Thought
SOCIAL COHESION We speak a lot about social cohesion in Montessori circles. Every Montessori preschool…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 100
Lockdown Day 100 - Good Bye! Our closing thoughts! From a thought of a 21-day…
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Lockdown Day 99 - No Plastic July Knowledge and Understanding of the World Today we…
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Lockdown Day 98 - Choosing books for children Literacy In today's post, we are going…
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Lockdown Day 97 - Operating with Money Numeracy and Arithmetic Last week in lockdown tip…
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Lockdown Day 96 - Treasure Baskets Education of the Senses Today’s post focuses on ‘Heuristic…
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Lockdown Day 95 - Ground rules Activities of Everyday Living Yesterday's post explored the concepts…
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Lockdown Day 94 - Favourable Environment Adult Post During the pandemic and its lockdown, teachers…
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Lockdown Day 93 - In the Kitchen Our lockdown series is approaching its final week…
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Lockdown Day 92 - KUW * OUR PETS *Our pets are extensions of our families.…
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Lockdown Day 91 - Handwriting Literacy A few weeks ago, we wrote about Dr. Montessori’s…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 90
Lockdown Day 90 - Introduction to SA Money Numeracy and Arithmetic We are staying with…
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Lockdown Day 89 - Similarities and Differences Education of the Senses In our lockdown tip…
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Lockdown Day 88 - Healthy Living Activities of Everyday Living We have been discussing the…
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Lockdown Day 87 - Parent Post *SUNDAY MUSINGS* The last three weeks have presented us…
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Lockdown Day 86 - Lunch Box Snacks The Snack Box Children have different needs when…
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Lockdown Day 85 - KUW In the literacy lockdown tip #63, we looked at the…
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Lockdown Day 84 - The beginning of writing Literacy Today’s post is aimed at showing…
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Lockdown Day 83 - Division Numeracy and ArithmeticWe have in previous posts explored counting and…
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Lockdown Day 82 – Visual Perception Education of the Senses In previous posts we have…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 81
Lockdown Day 81 - Healthy Living Activities of Everyday Living In our Day 78 post,…
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Lockdown Day 80 - Social Development Parent Post80 days! According to the legendary book by…
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Lockdown Day 79 - Waffles TREAT DAY!It has been cold and wet in Cape Town…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 78
Lockdown Day 78 - NCS Life Skills Knowledge and Understanding of the World One of…
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Lockdown Day 77 - Compound Words LiteracyIt is important to keep children engaged in and…
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Lockdown Day 76 - Number Bonds Numeracy and Arithmetic There are so many foundational skills…
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Lockdown Day 75 - Multisensory Learning Education of the SensesOver the past weeks, we have…
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Lockdown Day 74 - Dressing Activities of Everyday Living Today's post follows on from the…
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Lockdown Day 73 - Independence Parent PostWith five more Sundays before our youngest children can…
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Lockdown Day 71 - Magnetic and Non-magnetic Knowledge and Understanding of the World It’s a…
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Lockdown Day 70 - Auditory Games Literacy⠀As parents, you will probably have heard about short…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 69
Lockdown Day 69 - Ordinal Numbers Numeracy and Arithmetic The world of mathematics is full…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 68
Lockdown Day 68 - Colour Education of the Senses In Lockdown Tip #19 we spoke…
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Lockdown Day 67 - Packing a lunchbox Activities of Everyday Living If the pandemic teaches…
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Lockdown Day 66 - Teacher and Parent Post Most of our time this week was…
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Lockdown Day 65 - Susanne's Super Oats BREAKFAST TIMEA good hearty breakfast on a cold…
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Lockdown Day 64 - Air, Land and Water Knowledge and Understanding of the WorldThis week…
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Lockdown Day 63 - The Farm Literacy* GRAMMAR - Part 4 - THE FARM *The…
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Lockdown Day 62 - One to one Correspondence Numeracy and Arithmetic Children love to count.…
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Lockdown Day 61 - Baric sense Education of the Senses By now you will know…
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Lockdown Day 60 - Getting ready for school Activities of Everyday Living The Practical Life…
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Lockdown Day 59 - Parent Post Parent Post in appreciation of our Montessori Teachers …
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Lockdown Day 58 - Vegetable Soup Cooking Time! If the weather service is to be…
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Lockdown Day 57 - Cinnamon SPICE TIME Today, we would like to share a wonderful…
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Lockdown Day 56 - Prepositions Literacy * GRAMMAR - Part 3 * We continue our…
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Lockdown Day 55 - Adding and Subtracting Numeracy and Arithmetic Although flash cards and worksheets…
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Lockdown Day 54 - Gustatory Sense Education of the Senses In previous posts, we have…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 53
Lockdown Day 53 - Coming in from outside Activities of Everyday Living "Are we going…
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Lockdown Day 52 - Back to School? Parent Post Whilst the last week has brought…
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Lockdown Day 51 - Baking Pot Bread Baking Time! So, we are over the hurdle…
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Lockdown Day 50 - Nocturnal and Diurnal Knowledge and Understanding of the World Who would…
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Lockdown Day 49 - Verbs and Adverbs Literacy Last week, we explored the world of…
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Lockdown Day 48 - Greater than/less than Lockdown Day 48 - Numeracy and Arithmetic The…
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Lockdown Day 47 - Shapes Education of the Senses We have previously spoken about the…
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Lockdown Day 46 - Gardening Activities of Everyday Living The activities of everyday living (practical…
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Lockdown Day 45 - Parent Post Day 45 of the lockdown and it seems that…
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Lockdown Day 44 - Baking - Chocolate Cake Baking Time! Today feels like a good…
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Lockdown Day 43 - Sinking and Floating Knowledge and Understanding of the World. Science is…
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Lockdown Day 42 - Grammar Part 1 Literacy Do you remember being totally confused by…
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Lockdown Day 41 - Using the body to count Numeracy and Arithmetic Today's post is…
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Lockdown Day 40 - The Olifactory Sense Education of the senses Did you know that…
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Lockdown Day 39 - Polishing Activities of Everyday Living And here we thought we were…
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Lockdown Day 37 - Navigating Turbulent Skies Today’s post is for the parents, the teachers,…
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Lockdown Day 36 - Asking 'I Wonder' Questions Knowledge and Understanding of the World The…
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Lockdown Day 35 - Rhyming Literacy Do you remember singing nursery rhymes and playing action…
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Lockdown Day 34 - Sorting and counting Numeracy and Arithmetic The secret to unlocking the…
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Lockdown Day 33 - Mystery Bag Education of the Senses As we have mentioned before,…
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Lockdown Day 32 - Wash the car Activities of Everyday Living Happy Freedom (in lockdown)…
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Lockdown Day 31 - Cyril Says Family Fun Time!! For the last month, South Africa…
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Lockdown Day 30 - Still life set up in own home Creativity Too often our…
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Lockdown Day 29 - Sprouting Knowledge and Understanding of the World One of the characteristics…
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Lockdown Day 28 - Storytelling Literacy Thursdays are literacy days where we look at ways…
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Lockdown Day 27 - NUM - Estimate and Count Numeracy and Arithmetic Happy Earth Day!…
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Lockdown Day 26 - EOS - Textures in nature Education of the Senses What a…
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Lockdown Day 25 - AEL - Making a fruit salad Activities of Everyday Living Healthy…
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Lockdown Day 24 - Family Time! All of our posts up to now have provided…
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Lockdown Day 23 - A Crafty Day! MEMORIES “We do not remember days, we remember…
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Lockdown Day 22 - Knowledge and Understanding of the World With autumn well underway, this…
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Lockdown Day 21 - Literacy Learning to read and write starts with the understanding that…
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Lockdown Day 20 - Numeracy Numeracy is the ability to apply math concepts in all areas…
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Lockdown Day 19 - EoS - Visual Discrimination Most of what we learn, we take…
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Lockdown Day 18 - AEL - Cleaning out cupboards The end of the Easter weekend…
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Lockdown Day 17 - Happy Easter * HAPPY EASTER * After all the work of…
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Lockdown Day 16 - Banana Bread Saturdays are feel-good home days! An opportunity to shake…
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Lockdown Day 15 - Day of Kindness On the back of the President's announcement of…
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Lockdown Day 14 - Speckled Eggs With Easter weekend looming our Christian families will be…
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Lockdown Day 13 - Washing Windows Time to do some housework again today! * WINDOW…
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Lockdown Day 12 - World Health Day Today, 7 April 2020, is World Health Day.…
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Lockdown Day 11 - Dancing Rice As we hit the midpoint of our lockdown (hopefully),…
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Lockdown Day 10 - Kim's Game It's Sunday! Time to take a break from work…
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Lockdown Day 9 - Invent a Sandwich I guess we all miss eating out now…
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Lockdown Day 8 - Sorting Boxes and Lids * THE TUPPERWARE CUPBOARD * We heard…
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Lockdown Day 7 - Cinnamon Snails * IT'S A SNAIL KIND OF DAY * Snails…
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Lockdown Day 6 - Scrubbing slops! What better drawcard than to offer the child the…
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Lockdown Day 5 - PLANT CARE Children are naturally drawn to nature, and they can…
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Lockdown Day 4 - Earth Hour MARCH 28TH 2020 - 20:30 - EARTH HOUR Although…
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Lockdown day 3 - Sam's tried and tested playdough Let's get creative today and get…
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Lockdown Day 2 - Time to do some laundry! *LET'S DO SOME LAUNDRY* We all…
MCSA Lockdown Tip 1
Lockdown Day 1 - Mindfulness for the adults Welcome to the next 21 days of…
Happy Women’s Day!
Reflecting on our roles this Women’s Day: Mentor Observer Nourisher Thinker Encourager Sympathiser Searcher…
World Environment Day – 05 June 2018
If you can’t reuse it, refuse it! 13 tons of plastic leak into the…
12 May – World Migratory Bird Day
World Migratory Bird Day World Migratory Bird Day is held annually on the second weekend…
Maria Montessori – 31 August 1870 – 06 May 1952
Today marks the 66th anniversary of Maria Montessori's death in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.…
Freedom and Workers Days from a Montessori Perspective
Freedom Day and Workers Day...two public holidays so close together they afford South Africans the…
Earth Day 2018 – Be a Cosmic Agent
22 April 2018 is Earth Day - a time to remind ourselves of the…
Autism Awareness – 2 April 2018
Today, 2 April 2018, marks the eleventh annual World Autism Awareness Day. The entire month…
Human Rights – A Contemplation…
If there is one time in life when all men have the same ideas, when…
Teaching in the Montessori Primary School
The legal requirement The fact of the matter is that to teach in formal schooling…
111 years of the ‘Montessori Method’…
On 06 January 2018, we celebrate 111 years since the opening of the first 'Casa Dei…
Montessori and Father Christmas – What did she say?
As Christmas approaches (fast), the annual debate over what Montessori said about Christmas and Father…
Umuntu, Ngumuntu, Ngabantu…
Umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu... Three words that resonate so beautifully with the spirit of Montessori. …
Managing Discipline in the Lower Primary Montessori Classroom
In The Secret of Childhood, Montessori gives an account of a child placed on what…