The Montessori Notebook

The place to learn everything about Montessori at home in easy-to-follow, simple steps for busy parents and caregivers. Whether you are new to Montessori or have been using Montessori for a while, you will come away with practical ideas you can try today and use in your daily life.

Montessori toddler classroom

Tour of a Montessori toddler classroom in Amsterdam

In my last newsletter I showed people a picture of our Montessori toddler classroom after we’d just started back to school after the summer break: I’d made a few changes and I asked if people would like to have a look around. And it was a unanimous “yes please!". So I did a little Facebook Live for you to give you a little tour of a Montessori toddler classroom. The main changes to the classroom were for a couple of reasons: To free up some more floor space for children to roll out a … [Read more...] about Tour of a Montessori toddler classroom in Amsterdam

A live tour of Montessori toddler classroom in Amsterdam – The Montessori Notebook

This Wednesday, I had so much fun doing a little tour of my Montessori toddler classroom on Facebook live. I was able to answer people’s questions live and show you around at the same time. I had such a lovely response and it’s been viewed already 10,000 times! So fun. So, want to have a look around? This is perfect if you want to: see how we set up our snack area for the toddlers to make their own snackadmire our climbing wall, cosy cube and music + movement activitiesget a glimpse … [Read more...] about A live tour of Montessori toddler classroom in Amsterdam – The Montessori Notebook

Montessori nuts and bolts

In Montessori education, we are constantly observing the child to see where the child is at and how we can continue to challenge their skills. We have a sequence of activities in our Montessori toddler classroom to continue to strengthen the child’s eye-hand coordination and refinement of their grasp. One of the favourites is the Montessori nuts and bolts activities. I have three different types now in my classroom. Montessori Nuts and Bolts The easiest is the wooden nuts and bolts. I … [Read more...] about Montessori nuts and bolts

Montessori and music

We can at last feel it – summer is just around the corner! I have a suitcase of clothing in the language corner of our classroom and I was finally able to retire the rainboots and rainclothes for this year, and replace them with the swimmers, sunhat, tshirt, flip flops and swimming arm bands. #signsofsummer After all these years of writing blog posts, I don’t think I have ever written about the music area of the classroom. I have to confess to not being naturally talented in the music area. … [Read more...] about Montessori and music