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.

Setting up your home Montessori-style

Montessori storage and toy rotation

Well it turns out that we love to talk about Montessori storage and toy rotation. Folks want to know where to put the things that we aren’t using and how to contain the chaos. I’ve tried a lot of options over the years, but I am finally at my dream storage solution and happy to share. What didn’t work so well… Back in 2008 in my first classroom I had one small storage cupboard and everything had to be carefully balanced on top of each other or the Jenga-like tower would fall. Which … [Read more...] about Montessori storage and toy rotation

A peek inside Michelle, Victor and Cara’s Montessori-style home in Norway

Ah, you know I love finding spaces to share with you. Today another Montessori home tour. This time we get to visit Michelle (36), Victor (37) and Cara (2.5) who have recently moved to Norway. Michelle and Victor are a talented duo with their latest achievement being to write a book together called Growing Healthy Babies which will be published later this year. I met this lovely family when they moved to Amsterdam and since then they have moved twice! First to Bloemendaal near the beach here … [Read more...] about A peek inside Michelle, Victor and Cara’s Montessori-style home in Norway