Most classrooms include Valentine lessons during the month of February, but it isn’t just about doing art activities with hearts. One idea is to focus on fine motor skills.
Sensory Activities for the Holidays
For children with disabilities such as autism, it is often difficult to concentrate for long periods of time. Other children get stressed or overwhelmed and […]
Assessing at the Beginning of the School Year
School is about to start! How do you know where a student is starting from academically? Whether it’s your own child or a classroom of […]
The Need for Order
Maria Montessori Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness. Note: This post contains affiliate links. […]
Exploring the Senses
“The training and sharpening of the senses has the obvious advantage of enlarging the field of perception and of offering an over more solid foundation […]
Pronated Grasp
Maria MontessoriThe 1946 London Lectures This great interest in writing came from the ideas that children wanted to express. If they had had no ideas, […]
Setting Expectations
Have you ever found yourself three months into school and realized that your students appear to have no understanding of the classroom rules? That’s probably […]
Montessori and the Science of Reading
Maria Montessori-The 1946 London Lectures Children have a kind of instinct, a special sensibility, which urges them to acquire new words. Between three and five […]
Welcome
Welcome to SPED Montessori Solutions! With over twenty years of teaching experience, I have utilized many Montessori activities and techniques in both my regular education […]