Oct 2, 2026 This week our affirmation was I care about my friends and family, and it gave us another wonderful reason to dig a little deeper into friendship. If you have ever wondered why friendship keeps coming up in our classroom, here is the honest answer: friendship is the group project that never ends. It is ongoing work, and probably the most meaningful thing we do. Communicating gets easier as our children grow, but at the same time, the conflicts and the dynamics get more complex and...

One of the things I love most about our mixed-age classroom is watching what happens when a three-year-old and a six-year-old work side by side. This is Montessori at its heart — young children with what Dr. Montessori called the "absorbent mind" soaking up everything around them, and our newest friends are already getting their first taste of the full three-year cycle they'll grow through here. Meanwhile, our third-year students are stepping into a different kind of learning altogether. When...

A Montessori Farm School Reflection When I was growing up, I was a good number of years younger than my mom’s first two daughters. By the time I came along, she often said she had learned something important about parenting. She had learned to slow down. She used to tell me, “My job was to bring you into the world, and your job is to show me the world through your eyes.” It took me years to understand what she meant. Maria Montessori observed this same phenomenon more than a century ago. She...