Montessori Habitat School

Sending our gratitude and love to the very many who have shared their love of learning with our students.

Scientist finds professor who supported her love for bugs when she was 4 Rebecca Varney met Vernard Lewis at an entomology museum, where he let her hold a hissing cockroach and a live scorpion, and told her she could get something called a PhD and spend her life researching bugs.

The snowdrops are blooming! It warms our hearts to see our students grow too!

“Dr. Masten said resilience is less a specific trait and more a network of overlapping ones, like flexibility, confidence and even societal supports, like health care and schooling. But the crucial part is that children feel safe and supported. In order to weather a storm, you need a solid shelter.”

The Secret to Raising a Resilient Kid The ability to bounce back is more important now than ever; here’s how to impart it

What kind of mask offers the best protection for children?

How to choose and care for your kid’s masks This year’s back-to-school supply list has an important line item: face masks. Here's how to choose the best mask for your child, when to wash it and how to get them to wear it all day.

Happy Pollinator Week!

“Young children are invariably enchanted by insects, especially brightly colored insects that float through the air as if made of air itself, as if painted by fairies and set free on the wind to make wishes come true.”

Opinion | For the Butterflies — and the Rest of Us Stop using pesticides, in your butterfly garden and everywhere else.

“The attention, support, honesty, sharing and understanding the child receives during this time of grief will help them create an emotional template for the human losses that will inevitably come their way.”

How Losing a Pet Can Make You Stronger The process of acceptance and letting go builds the resilience necessary to navigate an array of life’s obstacles.

“With friends and family, we relax; we take off our masks and aren’t as strict about policing our kids’ social distancing. But this isn’t a good idea, Dr. Arwady warned.”

‘Just a Small Play Date’? You Still Need to Be Careful Experts warn that seemingly harmless interactions with close family and friends may be driving the spread of Covid.

"Life in the open air, in the sunshine, and a diet high in nutritional content coming from the produce of neighbouring fields improve the physical health, while the calm surroundings, the silence, the wonders of nature satisfy the need of the adolescent mind for reflection and meditation."
~ Maria Montessori
From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 67

The 2020 Back-to-School List for Teens’ Emotional Well-Being Forget backpacks and binders. Here are the essentials teenagers will need for the strange school year ahead.

“If we are among the men of good will who yearn for peace, we must lay the foundation for peace ourselves, by working for the social world of the child.” —International Montessori Congress, 1937

An Open Letter to Maria Montessori on Her 150th Birthday AUGUST 31, 2020—On Dr. Maria Montessori’s sesquicentennial birthday, we pause to recognize, honor, and celebrate her influence on our world. This letter to her serves as a thank you note on behalf of the entire Montessori community and all those who have been impacted by the transformative natur...

Do you see the little legs of the tadpole? Ever so thin and developing, yet one day they will be powerful jumping legs! Nature studies are filled with such awe and wonder. Many thanks to Sebastian for carefully sharing his frog and tadpole discovery!