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Part 3: From Hand to Mind: Building Language Skills to Better Structure Thinking Let’s start with what is often said about Montessori schools : “In Montessori schools, children have poor spelling skills. They don’t go through the same stages as in conventional schools and don’t spend as much time studying French, so their proficiency is lower, and it will take them a long time to catch up once they return to a traditional school later on.” Let us now look at a highly condensed comparison of...

Part 2: Why We Forget Our French: Going Beyond Conjugation Tables and Dictations We’ll continue our series of articles on the role of language in the Montessori curriculum by tackling the two big elephants in the room: conjugation and spelling. How many of you have seen the little notes your children bring home, written by other children, and nearly choked on your coffee? We have a little secret to share with you: we don’t correct your children’s written work in the early elementary years....

Part 1: Handwriting: efficiency or art? ©️Ludmila Katz We often hear and believe the myth that “neat handwriting in first grade means that the child is a good student.” " Reality tells us, thanks to neuropsychology, that when a child is forced to focus on the visual aspect of the page, they lose up to 90% of their ability to process the meaning of words. Our Montessori approach is to develop automatism. We prepare the hand as a tool so that when your child writes, they focus on their ideas...