Book “Montessori Homeschooling, One Family’s Story”

One family’s experience of homeschooling through elementary, middle, and high school

Montessori at Home for All Ages

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Montessori at Home, All Ages
During Covid, along with all of the negative experiences, in many instances families spent more time together and parents learned a lot more about education, and their children.

Homeschooling
Gabor Mate, who is the author of many books, including Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers, agrees with those in the Montessori world, that the most important education occurs during the first three years of life, and the rest is remedial! Finding a way to keep family and community close, especially in the first three years, is one of the purposes of the book Montessori for Family and Community. For more information on ideas to explore CLICK: MFC Book

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Montessori Parenting – Good and Bad Advice

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THINKING ABOUT EDUCATION
It is clear that people are re-thinking education more than ever following Covid when schools, and teacher training began to be at least partly remote. Some children thrive at home, others thrive at school. In the future education may be very different than it has been for the last few generations. Continue reading →

BOOK: Montessori Homeschooling, One Family’s Story

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Montessori Homeschooling, One Family’s Story
There is a chapter in this book for each of the years. Here are a few excerpts from that would be called “third grade” of this 12-year experience of day-by-day, year-by-year, learning how to create an authentic Montessori education at home, through elementary, middle, and high school.
Here is a second blog post with more information on this book.
CLICK:  Learning at home

From the chapter . . .

THIRD GRADE – Introduction

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The First Test
Many of Michael’s friends attended public school and he often heard them worrying about an upcoming test, something outside of his educational experience until, in a class on music theory at the Saturday Music Academy, he was given a test. That evening as we were at dinner he said:

I don’t see what the big deal is about tests. My friends who go to school are always worrying about them. The music test today was no problem. If I didn’t know the answer to a question I just looked at the test of the person sitting next to me.

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