Language & Literacy

The pervasiveness of technology in our culture brings the support of technology in our everyday lives. Thanks to tools such as autocorrect, proofreading, ChatGPT, and other on-line sites, any piece of writing can be thoroughly checked and edited for grammar. They make corrections and suggestions, ensuring that documents are properly vetted before being shared in any format. These incredible and useful tools have had the secondary effect of a greater reliance on them for writing. Now, students and adults alike are inclined to depend on technology to fix their grammar rather than learning how to get it right in the first place. To a certain extent, it is helpful to have assistance in fine-tuning work. But issues arise when people simply stop learning how to utilize correct grammar. Thankfully, a Montessori education has a comprehensive and engaging curriculum for teaching the intricacies of grammar to students. It starts at age five, with concrete experiences with the function of words, and ends at age twelve, with elaborate sentence analysis. Then, in seventh and eighth grade, students have opportunities to rigorously apply the lessons they have learned in the more complicated projects they produce at this age.

A Forest Bluff School graduate reflects on her Montessori education and the skills and traits it helped her to develop as she looks to her future in the rapidly evolving workplace.

Montessori's multi-age classrooms offer many opportunities and benefits for students of all ages.

We suggest several ideas for age-appropriate birthday parties that provide excitement, joy, and celebration without fatigue, stress, and feeling overwhelmed!

Recent research supports Montessori's adherence to teaching cursive handwriting and continuing to primarily use handwriting instead of typing in the classroom