Jewish Montessori

AMS has created a unique class for families of Early Childhood students to promote a common understanding of Montessori both at school and at home. This 6-week course combines live, online sessions and self-guided study and is designed for families interested in incorporating the Montessori philosophy into their day-to-day lives.

Register for our Spring cohort by March 30. https://bit.ly/3BMnDoS

So many parents feel they are making the right decision to take their child out of the Primary Montessori classroom for their third year/Senior Kindergarten year “so they can get get use to the traditional school environment”. The sadness of this decision is that those children miss the most important year of all!

“The third year in Montessori preschool is a time when children mature in their personality traits or character. It’s the time when students become self-possessed learners, confident in their abilities. It’s where they emerge as leaders, benevolently sharing their skills with their younger peers.”

The hidden benefits of your child’s third year in Montessori preschool The third year in Montessori preschool has sometimes been called the cashing in year or the leap year. It’s the time when students put together all the different skills they have indirectly and directly prepared for throughout their Montessori toddler and preschool years. Academically, the third y...

21 years ago today, I was in Israel on a work trip and decided to meet a friend for lunch in Jerusalem. I had grown up with non-kosher at home and going to Israel and eating the kosher versions of my non-kosher favorite foods from my youth was always fun. We must have met at the restaurant around 1:50. We walked up to the counter, perused what was fresh, and for whatever reason decided the food that day there didn’t seem appealing. Thank God, the food didn’t seem appealing that day.

So instead of our original plan of having a Sbarro’s lunch, we left the restaurant and headed down Jaffa road to find another place to eat. That decision saved our lives. For as we were walking down the road, we heard a loud “boom!”

When you hear a “boom” in Jerusalem, you immediately know what it is. What we didn’t know was if there was a second bomb. We began to run, because when you hear a bomb, you want to run to safety. But we didn’t know where safety was. No one did. It was mayhem. It was terrifying. We didn’t know what had happened or how close we were to being victims of a Jew-hating terror attack. Pay phone lines were jammed due to so many people using them. But I was finally able to reach my husband. We were still in our first year of marriage at the time.

I don’t know why God spared my life that day. I don’t know why our people have to be so hated, that having a tiny sliver of land in the world is too much. That trying to meet a friend for a slice of pizza is an act of bravery. My life was nearly lost for the crime of being a Jew in her land, yet I have met people, people who see themselves as being on the just side of issues, tell me that as a Jew I’m not part of a historically marginalized people. Our people have been marginalized since the day Pharaoh enslaved us, yet we have always persevered. But there have been too many heart wrenching casualties along the way. On August 9th, I thank God that I wasn’t of them.

https://amitrainingusa.org/2022/06/23/in-montessori-work-is-play/

In Montessori, Work IS Play Montessori, Work IS Play Sarah Werner Andrews, AMI Director Primary Training Montessori Northwest

Purim was definitely an interactive, hands-on experience for the children in the Montessori program at Eitz Chaim Schools!