ARTICLES | MAY 2022 ISSUE
Raising a Child to Love Literature
Parents often wonder and worry about how to encourage children to read and how to raise a child to love literature. How can you inspire your preschooler, school-aged child, or teen to love the written word? It begins with adult modeling, sharing literature at all...
Book Review – Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins By Scott O’Dell The Island of the Blue Dolphins is a historical fiction novel, based on a true story about a girl named Karana, who was stuck living in isolation for 18 years. In the story, Karana lives on an island with her family, and the...
Book Review – Flower Garden
Flower Garden Written by Eve Bunting Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt Another book by Eve Bunting! This talented woman has written many books for children from two years old to teenagers, in all different settings, and in varied real-life situations. She doesn’t try to...
Book Review – Hold This!
Hold This! As a dad and his young daughter, Mika, take a walk through the woods, Mika finds so many treasures that she wants to keep and take home. She finds a stick and a frog and some water and leaves and a sparkling stone and more. Mika wants her dad to put these...
Book Review – The Vegetarian Cookbook: More Than 50 Recipes for Young Cooks
The Vegetarian Cookbook: More than 50 Recipes for Young Cooks Written by DK publishers My son and his family are vegetarians. I wondered if there were any vegetarian cookbooks for children. So I went searching and, lo and behold, there were quite a few! I found one...
Book Review – Fly Away Home
Fly Away Home Written by Eve Bunting Illustrated by Ronald Himler This is a book for elementary and even middle-school children. Andrew and his dad are homeless. They live in the airport. They must never be noticed, or airport security will throw them out onto the...
Favorite summer Reads for 2022
Favorite SummerReads for 2022 by Lorna McGrath One of the many things that teachers do in the first few days of school is to ask children to talk about, write about, or in some way describe their summer activities. You remember that, right? For some of us that was...
Family Fun is More Than Fluff
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A Montessori School Is…
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Moving Math
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10 Ways to Prepare for Summer
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A Montessori Approach to Clean-Up Time
A Montessori Approach to Clean-Up Time by Carine Robin We know that Montessori is all about order. We know that children have a sense of order. The Montessori classroom is an orderly environment where every activity has its place. Montessori teachers encourage...
Beyond Bribes, Rewards, and Punishments
A Montessori Approach to Clean... Beyond Rewards, Bribes, & Punishment A Montessori Approach to Building Intrinsic Motivation 42 ways that the Montessori approach builds intrinsic discipline in our children. by Simone Davies In my last article on a Montessori...
The Dump Truck Story
The Dump Truck Story What happens when we normalize ‘disaster’ thinking and accept the mess by Alicia Diaz-David When my son was two years old, he scribbled on his dump truck with a brown marker and announced that he would wash it right there in the middle of our...
Rising Innovators in Class
RISING INNOVATORS IN CLASS by Gillett Cole As part of our microeconomics course, we partnered with Marc Seldin and Mark Tough to include a pilot of their college-level learning program called “Rising Innovators,“ for adolescents. Rising Innovators is an experiential...
50 Ways to Celebrate Summer Learning
50 Ways to Celebrate Summer Learning by Cheryl Allen Summer is a time of more daylight, warmer temperatures, and more time outdoors. We may think that, for children who are out of school in the summer, it is not a time of learning. Yet, it can be an incredible time of...
The Power of Hands-on Learning
The Power of Hands-on Learning by Mary Ellen Maunz “What the hand does, the mind remembers.” – Dr. Maria Montessori If a child is able to use their hands to discover, their discoveries become more meaningful to them. The concepts they learn are much more rooted than...
Are We Really All Friends?
ARE WE REALLY ALL FRIENDS? by Betsy Merena In this article, we will discuss the appropriateness of the long-standing tradition of using the term “friends” as an all-encompassing definition of peer relationships in the early childhood classroom environment. Through a...
10 Things to Whisper in Your Child’s Ear Every Day
Next Story from 'Tomorrow's Child Magazine May 2022' 10 Ways to Prepare for Summer 10 Things to Whisper in Your Child’s Ear Every Day by Gavin McCormack, reprinted by permission 1. I believe in you 100 percent. Whatever you want to be, I’ll be right behind you. 2. Be...