It’s summer break here and a good time to get inspired to make our homes more Montessori. I always recommend looking at things from the child’s height, making their things accessible to the children, and helping to set things up so they can manage by themselves. We all know the cry, “me do it!". So today is the first in our summer series of Montessori home tours. I have been following mininimoo on Instagram for a long time and assumed that this was the home of a Montessori teacher. I reached … [Read more...] about SUMMER SERIES: Montessori home tour #1 – a peek inside the home of Enerel, Bayanaa, Nimo and Odi’s Montessori-style home in Mongolia
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How to be human – we are more alike than we are different
Are you also questioning what it is to be human with everything going on in the world around us right now? It almost feels as if there is no time in history when change has happened at such a rapid pace. I think we are at a turning point. An exciting one. Why? Because I think we are starting to realise that “we are more alike than we are different". Does that ever happen to you when you start to see the connections everywhere? You see I love a good intellectual conversation. … [Read more...] about How to be human – we are more alike than we are different
Montessori and pretend play: a complicated question
What is the Montessori approach to pretend play, imagination and fantasy? Dr Montessori has been recorded as preferring reality to pretend play in the classroom. The most commonly referenced is when she introduced traditional toys in her classroom. She found that children gravitated instead to the real thing. For example, rather than playing in a pretend kitchen, the children wanted to prepare real food. She therefore chose to remove traditional toys from the classroom, keeping those based in … [Read more...] about Montessori and pretend play: a complicated question
A peek inside Miriam, Tomasz and Samuel’s Montessori-style home in Poland
Meet Miriam (29), husband Tomasz (31) and son Samuel (3) who live in Poland. Miriam is originally from Slovakia and moved to Poland where her husband is from and where their son was born. I’ve been following Miriam for some time on Instagram (@mojemontessori). I love seeing the activities they have been working on at home and snippets of their daily life. Their spaces were so beautiful, I remember writing to her to ask if Miriam was a Montessori teacher. She is not but, Miriam writes, “I … [Read more...] about A peek inside Miriam, Tomasz and Samuel’s Montessori-style home in Poland