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The Guidepost Approach to Developing a Child’s Mathematical Mind

A Deep Dive into the Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) Math Curriculum and how it empowers advanced math skills in 3 to 6-year-olds. Math is perhaps the most dreaded subject in conventional schools. Students everywhere bemoan that it’s boring, irrelevant, and utterly mystifying. In studying math, a student often finds that maybe he can memorize and obey the arbitrary algorithms […]

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The Guidepost Approach to Developing Strong Readers (Who Love to Read!)

In many ways, the signature feature of a Montessori Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) is its language curriculum. From the moment a child enters at 2.5 to 3-years-old, she begins building the foundation of literacy with engaging games and hands-on study of phonics. Once she’s in her capstone Kindergarten year, all the preparation and work up to that

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Montessori classroom with geography materials and world flags at Guidepost Montessori.

How Prepared Montessorian Institute Prepares Guides for the Classroom from Day One

A look at Guidepost’s partner teacher-training institute, Prepared Montessorian Institute, and how it provides guides best-in-class training When you observe a 20-month-old toddler serve herself a snack, throw away scraps and stack her dirty plate when she finishes, and wash her hands before going back to work—all without a word of reminder from an adult—the

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Kindergarten at Guidepost

Explore why the third year of Children’s House, which corresponds with the age that children traditionally start kindergarten, is so critically important. Our Children’s House programs, like all high-fidelity Montessori programs, exist on a three-year cycle. Not experiencing the culmination of the first two years of work and progress is like stopping a movie before

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Young child practicing pouring water in a Montessori classroom setting.

The Importance of Practical Life Activities Within the Montessori Method

Learn how practical life activities in Montessori provide scope and sequence for everyday routines and practices One of the pleasures of watching a child grow is being shocked out of taking the mundane for granted. The most ordinary things that we seemingly know without thinking and can do without trying, are for the child wondrous,

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