This week, we asked our teachers, Dee Slavin and Jaki Cameron in the Children’s House Four class, to share some of their favorite stories that illustrate those moments of joyful discovery when an idea really clicks for a student and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.

Dee’s Quotation Marks Story
During the afternoon, the Kindergarten [...]

This week, we asked Janice Kjellman and Judy Billotte from Children’s House Three to share some of their favorite stories that illustrate those moments of joyful discovery when an idea really clicks for a student and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.

Janice’s “Reading Girl” Story
I guess since I teach small children it’s the very [...]

By Mark Harvey, Upper Elementary Teacher
My sixth grade math group can now say “kite” in 23 different languages. This is what I love about Montessori—what was intended to be a practical math exercise using knowledge of ratio and proportion to construct kites, ended up also being a language lesson—and that part was entirely the doing [...]

This week, we asked Melissa Vidal-MacKay and Suzy Waters, our teachers in the Children’s House Two class, to share some of their favorite stories that illustrate those moments of joyful discovery when an idea really clicks for a student and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.

Melissa’s Trinomial Cube Story
I recently witnessed a wonderful [...]

The Inly Lower Elementary classes visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA this week. This field study was an extension of their geology and habitat work in class. A team of motivated third graders wrote the following reviews:

All photos by third-grader, Morgan K. (LE2)
Treasures at the Harvard Natural History Museum
By Zoe [...]