Have you ever watched your child dissolve into tears over the “wrong” color cup and wondered, “What just happened?” In the early years, emotions don’t trickle out; they flood. This isn’t misbehavior; it’s biology. Before the prefrontal cortex matures, emotions are processed through the limbic system where feelings and actions happen almost simultaneously. That is why a young child needs a calm, trusted adult to help translate the chaos of the moment into understanding and sa

The moveable alphabet is a tangible alphabet consisting of wooden letters. It contains several copies of each letter, the consonants in...

The Montessori Land and Water Forms introduce the child to a concrete experience of common topographical features on the Earth, as a part...

The binomial and trinomial cubes are indirect preparation for future abstract mathematics. The child works with the cubes, matching the...

Montessori children first experience new concepts in a broad sense, and gradually work their way to the finer details. The Montessori...

The golden beads are a math material designed to develop a tactile understanding of quantity from 1-1000, and to introduce the child to...

Velcro, snaps, buttons, lacing, tying and more! The dressing frames are practical life work that prepare the child for independence....

The Geometric Solids are comprised of ten, blue solid wooden shapes. The shapes include: triangular prism, rectangular prism, cube,...

Using the Botany Cabinet, the child learns the shapes and names of leaves by tracing their borders and matching them to those in the...

Montessori Moment Monday: The Continent Globe. As we approach Earth Day this Friday, it seemed fitting to take a moment to appreciate...

The sandpaper letters are one of four original languages materials designed by Dr. Montessori. At the primary level, sandpaper letters...

The bead stair helps children develop a sense of order and quantity from 1-9, as they arrange the bead bars in order from shortest to...