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The Gifts of Summer
The Gifts of Summer The summer break provides unique challenges but also unique opportunities for unstructured time, including the freedom to explore outdoors, as well as building independence, and meaningful contributions.Unstructured Time While it’s tempting to...
Dive into Summer: Reading Lists for Children’s House & Elementary
Need something to read this summer? Here are our picks for the best summer reading for Children's House and Elementary! Children's House Summer Reading List 2025 Elementary Summer Reading List 2025 Along with these book recommendations, here are a few tips to...
What’s All the Buzz About Elementary Research?
If you have ever spent time in a Montessori Elementary classroom, you have seen it abuzz with a variety of research projects. Why is this? Elementary-age students are naturally curious and have a strong internal drive to discover how our world works. Montessori’s...
Spring Earth Day Celebration at Greenspring
As part of our Allegiance to Nature at Greenspring Montessori School, our faculty and staff organized a special Earth Day event for our children and families. Our Toddler, Children’s House, Elementary, and Adolescent classes took on various projects around our campus...
What do you love about Greenspring?
A recent article in Education Week brought to light some intriguing findings from a Brookings Institution study that reveals a gap in how parents perceive their children's enjoyment and engagement with school compared to the students' own perspectives. According to...
The Child’s Absorbent Mind
Written by Shannon Brown, Children's House Guide “Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent mind in its work of development. How marvelous it would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment of the child, if by understanding the needs of [their]...
Changemakers in Children’s House: Learning How to Lead
“Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.”It is one thing to...
Working Toward Toileting Independence
Toilet training is adult-led and on the adults’ time. Toilet learning involves the child in the learning process. This is their big work. “Learning to use the toilet is a natural process that begins when your child’s desire to be grown up and his neurological...