Montessori links

• Montessori International Magazine
• Association Montessori Internationale
• American Montessori Society
• Montessori
• Montessori Foundation
• Montessori Video
• Superwoman Was Already Here!
• Extraordinary women - Maria Montessori
• Montessori Guide
• Montessori Children Often Turn Into Happy Adults
• An Association Between Montessori Education in Childhood and Adult Wellbeing
• Are Montessori Schools Better Than Public Schools?

Montessori initiative

(some articles courtesy of Montessori International Magazine)

• NEW: Montessori: The world's most influential school?
• Montessori students exhibit a more richly connected semantic memory network
• Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income-based inequality
• How Investing In Preschool Beats The Stock Market
• Five things you should know about Montessori education
• Kindergarten Readiness
• How to think like a genius: The Montessori method Try seeing the world through someone else's eyes
• Montessori and Raising Original Thinkers
• Prince George's First Day of School at Montessori School
• Charlie and Lola author reveals why she chose a Montessori
• Julia Child, Will Wright and more famous Montessori alumni
• Montessori Education Defined
• Senator Tom Harkin and Montessori
• Montessori morning
• Is Montessori school the right education for your child?
• The Montessori - Marquez Connection
• The Future Of Education Was Invented In 1906
• Montessori in today's America
• Neuroscience and Montessori approach
• Obama and Pink Tower
• The Fundamental Choice
• From Creeping to Leaping the Kindergarten Year - A Montessori Parent's Perspective
• The Three Year Commitment
• Early Lesson - Flexibility Leads To Creativity At Work
• Briefings magazine
• Montessori and me 2
• Montessori and me 1
• What Montessori means to me
• Montesori in Home
• Montessori education
• Hanging in with Montessori in Tough Times

School Life - picture download

Piano Lessons

• How to play piano - 1
• How to play piano - 2

Nutrition

• Spring/Summer Menu - Toddler
• Spring/Summer Menu - Preschool
• Nutrition fees

• Canada's Food Guide
• Healthy eating
• Eating disorders 1
• Eating disorders 2
• Eating Disorders: common misconceptions and links to the early years
• Learning lunchtime independence
• Making a good start
• Bon appetit - we always said that first.

Daily Program Plan

• Toddler Classroom
• Casa Classroom

Monthly Themes and Celebrations

• Toddler Classroom
• Casa Classroom
• French language
• Celebrations

Links

• Product Safety - Juvenile Product Recalls
• Family Education (health, nutrition, parenting and much more for children 0-12 years)

Parents' Homework

• What's More Powerful than "Good Job?"
• How to stay calm - the ultimate guide for parents
• Separation
• Biting incidents
• The disintegration of the parent-child bond
• The collapse of parenting - Why it's time for parents to grow up
• How To Ruin Your Child
• Memo From Your Child
• Influenza Self-Assessment Chart for Children
• When toddlers bite another children
• Daily Homework
• Ways to encourage your baby's language
• Top ten reasons to read to children

School Policies

• Covid-19 Policy
• Covid-19 Policy Addendum
• Covid Policy Receipt and Waiver Form
• Covid-19 Immunization Disclosure Policy

• Parent handbook
• General policies
• Privacy policy
• Health
• Anaphylactic policy
• Sleep policy and Supervision
• Serious Occurrence policy
• Emergency Management Policy
• Bagged lunches policy

• Sanitary Policies and Procedures
• Playground Safety Policy
• Outdoor Activities
• Water Safety Policy
• Safe Drinking Water Policy
• Infection Control Policy

• Implementation and Reviews of Program Statement
• Criminal reference check policy
• Child abuse reporting policy
• Supervision policy for volunteers and students
• Staff training and development policy

Staff binder

• Staff handbook

• Fire Safety Plan
• Opening and Closing policy

• Wage Enhancement policy
• Work Health and Safety policy

(Courtesy of Montessori International Magazine)

• Story reading
• Why a book?
• Books and reading
• Yoga benefits for the whole child
• The Power of Music and Song
• The importance of experience prenatally and in the first two years of life
• Screen dependency in childhood
• Absorbent Musical Mind
• Montessori beyond the classroom
• The importance of experience prenatally and in the first two years of life
• Words and their role in development of young children's communication skills
• The positive use of language to nurture positive behaviour
• From talk to conversation

• The gift of boredom
• Treasures for twos
• Settling into nursery
• What is so terrible about two?
• Supporting two year olds in a Montessori setting
• Do try this at home
• Close encounter of the green kinds
• Synaesthesia - the implications for Montessori schools
• Synaesthesia - a neurological mystery
• Enriching children's language
• Fit for life
• Creative play for your child
• So sexy so soon
• Supporting boys
• How can Montessori influence our parenting?
• Separation anxiety
• Children's natural rights
• Social networking
• Low-tech learning
• Supporting your child at home 3
• Supporting your child at home 2

• Speaking each others' languages
• Encouraging bilingualism
• Thinking creatively
• Keep taking the tablets - screen media and children
• Supporting your child at home 1
• Does not compute
• Music for Architects
• Why Montessori for over five's
• Ready, set, learn
• Research - Effect of television
• Working with Nature
• Remotely controlled
• Learning from play
• Montessori at home
• Keeping as eys on the children
• Beginning the journey
• Impact of the electronic media
• Movement and development of brain
• Montessori Math ands brain building
• Montessori for Infants and Toddlers
• Sensitive periods
• Help me to do it myself
• Grace and Courtesy

• “How do I engage my 4 year old child with reading?”See the article
• “When searching on your website for a nursery school for my child I noticed that many settings were accredited. Could you please explain what it means and if it is an important factor in the quality of a Montessori nursery?”See the article
• “How beneficial is it for 2 year olds to attend a nursery?”See the article
• “My son of 8 months is crawling around our home. What can I do to stimulate him in this period?”See the article
• “We try to implement the Montessori approach by giving our children respect and trust, and as much freedom as possible at home. Our children are home educated and have a limited access to the computer and computer games. What are your views ' is this limitation of access in conflict with our belief in the children's freedom?”See the article
• “I understand that there is an element of free choice in a Montessori school. What happens if my child just wants to paint all day and never for example uses the maths materials?”See the article
• “How will I know how well my child is doing in a Montessori Primary (6-12) classroom as I have heard they don't do tests and assessments? How are children prepared for exams to get into an independent secondary school?”See the article

• “My 8 year old son seems to be bright, has a good spoken vocabulary and is reading well, but he is unable to write more than a few words, and his handwriting is terrible. What can we do?”See the article
• “I have just been to look around a Montessori school with my rather boisterous 2 year old son and I'm concerned whether there would be enough in the classroom to keep him engaged. I can see how a little girl could be kept occupied for hours with the threading, pouring and polishing exercises on the practical life shelves but I didn't see much for my son who gets bored easily. Please can you advise me as to whether the Montessori environment is right for my child?”See the article
• “I am an occupational therapist, and my fourth child who is 14 months has Down syndrome. I am interested in Montessori for him. Do you have any resources to point me towards?”See the article
• “I don't allow my 5 year old son to play with guns at home since I want him to grow up peacefully in a non-violent environment especially as there is a lot of violence on television. However if he finds a gun in his cousin's house it is the only toy he wants. I also observed him playing with his friends using sticks as guns. What do you suggest?”See the article
• “How would you suggest keeping my child's "screen time" to a sensible length?”See the article

• “My child seems to keep gravitating towards the same activities every day. How will she be encouraged to try new activities in her Montessori nursery?”See the article
• “How will music help my child's development?”See the article
• “My friend has a child in a Children's Centre and her son has got a Key Person who seems to do everything for her son. However my daughter goes to a Montessori School and although all the staff seem to know her and look after her there is not so much emphasis on Key Persons at her school. Should I be worried?”See the article
• “How will my child fit in with a more traditional system after leaving Montessori nursery?”See the article
• “When I ask my young son what he did at his Montessori school he often says 'nothing'. How do I find out what he has been doing?”See the article
• “My child is leaving his Montessori nursery to go onto primary school. I would like to continue using the Montessori philosophy at home.
  Can you suggest practical ways I can prepare my child for his new school?”See the article

• NEW: How Mud Boosts Your Immune System
• NEW: Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest', And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems
• A dark consensus about screens and kids begins to emerge in Silicon Valley
• 10 Habits to Strengthen a Parent-Child Relationship
• Want happier, calmer kids? Simplify their world
• The Dangers of Distracted Parenting
• A Troubling Side Effect of Praise
• Sugar is the "alcohol of the child"
• Praise Became a Consolation Prize
• Why anxiety is increasingly common in kids, early warning signs-and the gentle fixes that help them thrive
• Protecting children during a horrific event
• >When Children Say "I Can't," but They Can, and Adults Know It
• Bilingual brains have higher volume of grey matter
• Bilingual toddlers demonstrate greater cognitive flexibility
• A Subject Schools Lack
• There Has Been No Collapse of Parenting
• Why kids today are out of shape, disrespectful - and in charge
• No timeouts, reward charts or taking their toys away
• Four Crucial Ways Playing Outdoors in Winter Benefits Children
• Why kids should play outside, even in extreme cold
• Empathy, Education and a True Growth Mindset
• Determining if your child has a speech disorder
• Protecting Children During a Horrific Event
• New study calls for changes to childcare "mandatory" sleep rules
• Five Clever Ideas to Spark Independent Reading by Kids
• Children Want Factual Stories, Versus Fantasy, More Often Than Adults
• Grace and Courtesy and the Adult
• The Most Important Montessori Lesson Edward Fidellow
• Taking Notes: Is The Pen Still Mightier Than the Keyboard?
• Another Approach to Raising Healthy Eaters
• Bedtime Stories for Young Brains
• Beyond Academics-What a Holistic Approach to Learning Could Look Like
• Time for Bed
• What Playing Sports Teaches Kids About Bigger Roles in Life
• What Stealing Cookies Teaches Us About Young Children and Empathy
• Fidgeting May Benefit Children With ADHD
• Guinea Pigs Are Autistic Child's Best Friend
• Why Slowing Down Stimuli to Real Time Helps a Child's Brain
• Preschoolers and Praise-What Kinds of Messages Help Kids Grow
• Could Storytelling Be the Secret Sauce to STEM Education
• Education Doesn't Need to be Reformed - It Needs to be Transformed
• Why Kids Need to Move
• Smartphone, tablet overuse among toddlers may stunt development
• Parenting Advice From 'America's Worst Mom'
• Regular naps are 'key to learning'
• Protecting Children During a Horrific Event
• Helping Kids Cope with Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events
• Full-day kindergarten is failing our children
• Why Empathy is Declining Among Students and What We Can Do
• How Should You Talk To Your Kids?
• Overprotective Parenting: Finding Balance & Fostering Independence
• The Overprotected Kid
• Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework
• Is ADHD a mental health crisis, or a cultural one?
• Kids may be ready for math earlier than you think
• States try to save cursive writing in the classroom
• Looking around: Creating a learning environment (even without a teacher)
• The iParents: Adults face modern struggle to balance staying connected and hands-free parenting
• Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail
• The adolescent Brain
• Preschool Learning - More than ABCs and 123s
• Montessori, neuroscience, and parenting
• A Montessori Child's Plea Poem
• Do Young Children Need Computers
• Reducing Academic Pressure May Help Children Succeed
• Montessori - It's good for business

Parent Central

• Anxiety and kids
• Teen brain benefits from mindfulness training
• Creating Innovators

The Globe and Mail

• Too much homework stifling your kids? Let them just say no
• Early-learning schools create an environment to address the whole person
• What happened to raw emotions in childrens' songs
• Why I prod my kids to do chores
• Chores-How to make kids want to help
• Want to teach your kids to be better people-Make them do chores
• Giving kids with ADHD room to move could boost test scores: study
• How my four-year-old showed me the dangers of being polite
• UBC students' invention can warn parents of autistic meltdowns
• Are your kids picky eaters? Try letting them play with their food
• The growing argument against homework
• Parents, your inflated praise could be turning your child into a narcissist
• Let the kids run wild
• Bribing your kids
• Movie sex and violence risks desensitizing parents, study finds
• The simplest, cheapest way to give your child a healthy start: Read to them
• Why kids over 5 aren't doing enough physically
• Moving away from drugs, training the mind could be key to treating ADHD
• Girls have actually always done better than boys at school, study finds. But why?
• Are you paying your kids for good behaviour? You're not alone
• Why you actually don't need to let your kids fail
• Full-day kindergarten offers little academic advantage, study says
• Four common mistakes parents make when praising their kids
• Early engagement key to getting girls into science careers, Canadian study says
• Training the brain may be key to controlling ADHD
• Sibling relationships tied to children's vocabulary skills
• How to nurture the single most important part of your child's well-being: Their mental health
• Family happiness: Do parents expect too much?
• Solving the math-phobia problem - for both parents and kids
• A parenting trend with an anti-guilt clause

The New York Times Magazine

• Spoiled Rotten
• Building Self-Control, the American Way
• Read to Your Baby
• When to Worry if a Child Has Too Few Words
• Let the Kid Be
• Coming Full Circle
• Taking Play Seriously

Time

• Even Babies Can Recognize What's Fair
• The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

The Sydney Morning Herald

• The failure of school to educate

Forbes

• Creating Innovators - Why America's Education System Is Obsolete
• Is Montessori The Origin Of Google & Amazon

Harvard Business Review

• Montessori Builds Innovators

Slate Magazine

• Children cooking: How young can they be?

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The Globe and Mail

• When saying "no" to your kids falls on deaf ears
• Why helicopter kids aren't happy
• The earlier kids start learning music, the better for the brain
• Boys will be boys - schools need to understand that
• When is shyness an 'illness'?
• Pass the marshmallow test? Your brain's more efficient: study
• Why are today's teenagers feeling so anxious?
• Right To Play goes on the attack to stress importance of sports to kids
• When to have the talk now? Boys reaching puberty younger, study finds
• Do babies know the difference between right and wrong
• Risky play is good for kids
• Who killed the family room
• Why kids need to fail to succeed in school
• Who's watching the kids
• Why I'm not okay with webcams in daycares
• Why even toddlers should be doing chores
• Are kids failing at summer
• Study links spanking to later mental disorders
• How to build a healthier, smarter student
• War on child obesity: out of the cafeteria and onto the playground
• Why we need to teach our kids how to fail
• More activity, less screen time urged for young kids
• Maria Montessori - guru for a new generation of business innovators
• What the Italians can teach us about child rearing
• Suffering from parenting advice overload? Say thanks, but no thanks
• How many words should a 2-year-old know?
• Babies help pupils learn empathy
• Your kid is melting down. Why it's important to keep your cool
• Technology opens up new worlds for children with autism
• Will study of healthy brain shed light on autism?
• Parents should have more legal leeway in spanking
• Don't shut disabled kids out of society
• Do French moms raise better-behaved kids?
• Attentive kindergarteners grow up to be better workers
• Kids under two should be 'screen free,' says American Academy of Pediatrics
• U.S. guidelines lower age of ADHD diagnoses
• Nice try! Why parents should stop telling loving lies
• How nurture can trump nature: "Parents are their kids' stress response system"
• Three family-friendly goals for a happier home
• Talking Points: Olympic torch, kids' sleep patterns, and exercise in the golden years
• Study says parents could do more to protect kids' ears
• ADHD symptoms linked to children who have more than two hours of screen time a day

The Toronto Star

• Having regular chores helps children learn responsibility, experts say
• Poor sleep tied to kids' lower academic performance
• Early learning is a better bargain than universities
• Kindergarten attention span predicts good work habits down the road
• Learning to live with 'boy energy'
• Montessori: The Missing Voice in the Education Reform Debate
• Even at 6 months, babies have innate sense of numbers: study
• Reading, writing and running around
• How to make the most of summer
• School's out but work is not
• Are our toddlers becoming the new crop of couch potatoes?
• Taking Charge of the Future
• Homework harms kids, says debunker

The Globe and Mail

• Children's fitness levels declining worldwide
• How to help kids stay cool about back-toschool worries
• Full-day kindergarten is no magic bullet
• Montessori method: learning that emerges from within
• Probiotics linked to lower risk of allergies for kids
• Does Ritalin really help?
• The great, untapped household labour pool: your kids
• Kids with ADHD have trouble forming emotional memories
• Why you should let Dr. Seuss help raise your kids
• Montessori Builds Innovators
• Do children really need to be gender-free
• Babies should exercise to fight obesity
• Early autism screening
• Does year round schooling
• The case for staying out of school
• EQ over IQ - How play-based learning
• The secret to happier parenting
• Canada gets a failing grade for childhood fitness
• Relearning the lost art
• Treating autism
• Hey kids, how about a vocation vacation?
• Watch that education gap disappear
• Self-control at an early age helps avoid pitfalls
• How to raise an 'orchid child' to blossom
• Girls-only computer class
• A dramatic move to make students KEEN on learning
• How to reset your child's sleep schedule
• Age distorts ADHD diagnoses in kindergartners
• Should late-birthday kids sit out a year?
• Beware of jumping to ADHD conclusions
• Genetic finding paves way for controversial autism testing
• Fewer toddlers getting all their vaccinations
• Health & Fitness
• Video eye tests help screen toddlers brain function
• Do mornings with the kids have to be hell?
• How to raise joyful kids
• All school, for all day, makes Jack an irritable boy
• Parent-teacher interviews
• How involved should parents be in children's homework?
• Keeping kids in the dark
• How one family won the battle to ban homework
• Waldorf, Montessori programs are about teaching children how to think
• My third grader still can't read. What do I do?
• Chewing over the benefits of family meals
• ADHD study ties brain proteins to symptoms
• ADHD - or sleep deprived?
• Your children can be upstanding
• All girls better grades
• Near-term babies risk developmental delays: study
• He's got a girl brain, she's got a boy brain
• Infant TV viewing
• Cash for grades
• It can be lonely saying no
• Childcare in Canada
• Any Kid Can Learn Math
• Baby, It's Not That Cold Outside
• The Secret To Success
• Building Confidence
• Nature may ease ADHD symptoms
• Our brave new world
• The Free Range Child
• Children cooking: How young can they be?