Lectio Divina for the Young, a How To

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Tonight was my second opportunity to pray Lectio Divina with Gianna. As promised, here are the nuts and bolts for the process. First of all, I encourage reading the entirety of the passage from a real Bible, not just an excerpt from a tablet or other device. Maria Montessori, a Catholic herself, wrote in her … Read more

Lectio Divina with Gianna

A few months back, I started to think about getting ready to renew my consecration to Mary, which I do every year on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Gianna has been deeply interested in all things to do with faith lately, so I went searching for a consecration prep designed for children her age. … Read more

Our Favorite Works Right Now: Practical Life Edition

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“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.”-Maria Montessori If you walked into a Montessori classroom, you would see many children going about their work. Some would be doing counting, some … Read more

Our Favorite Works Right Now: Counting and Internalizing Knowledge

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Sitting back and observing the child without intervening doesn’t come naturally to most adults, but it is a cornerstone of the Montessori method, and for me at least, the more I step back and watch my children as they work, the more I am amazed at what they discover. When they make their own discoveries, … Read more

Our Favorite Works Right Now: Precise and Self-Correcting

“It follows that the child can only develop fully by means of experience on his environment. We call such experience “work”.”- Maria Montessori (The Absorbent Mind) First let me say that our children are incredibly blessed to have grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and uncles who support their education and make homeschooling possible for our family.  Our … Read more