Once your child has a firm grasp on the sounds made by each letter and has worked on hearing beginning, ending, and middle sounds in CVC words, it’s time for some word building! This phonemic awareness exercise of hearing and combining the smallest units of sounds within words is usually done with a movable alphabet […]

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One of the most difficult things to master as a Montessori teacher or homeschooling parent is the ins and outs of rotating shelf work. Keeping the interest of the children you’re working with is key to having a functioning classroom, but knowing when it’s time to rotate materials, or which ones to start with, can […]

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It’s natural that when you first discover something that you think is amazing (like Montessori!), you immediately want to convert everyone around you to do things exactly the same way. But sometimes couples (or other important caregivers in your child’s life) can have very different ideas of how to raise children. Is it the end […]

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