One student laying out the golden bead material to continue learning how to count beyond ten, another student taking a pencil and ruler to paper to explore how equilateral triangles nest within each other. Math and geometry in Montessori are never boring. #montessorielementaryschool #montessoristeubenvilleohio #montessori #montessorimath #montessorigeometry
Happy Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta ✨
When we founded Hilltop Children’s House 8 years ago, we chose Mother Teresa as our patron—trusting God, like she did, to provide for the work He called us to.
Today, our community finished her novena and celebrated with blueberry muffins 🫐💙—blue and white, just like the Missionaries of Charity’s saris.
Come find us at First Friday tonight to celebrate with us (and grab a muffin)!
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The Black Strip is a 90-foot strip of black cloth with a narrow strip of red cloth at one end.
The Black Strip presentation includes a talk about how long it took for the earth to cool after it came together as part of our solar system, follows by how long it took for life to develop from single-cell organisms, through fish, plant life, and all of the types of vertebrates that have spread out across the land.
The point of it is not to give a scientific and technical presentation about precisely how long each stage took, but to give the children an impression of how much time it took for various things to happen.
That narrow red strip at the end represents, in a proportional and impressionistic way, the entire extent of how long humans have been on earth. Since God formed our first parents from the particles of the earth and breathed his life into them, that red strip represents all of human existence.
The Black Strip helps children to get an impression of just how long the earth has existed, and how long life has been on earth, before the time of man.
The Black Strip always gets a reaction and a sense of wonder from the children as we enter into the school year and consider the grang scope of human existence, our place in the world, and our responsibility and privilege to explore and think about this cosmos that God gave us to live in and explore.
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Born this day in 1870, Maria Montessori was the first female medical doctor in Italy and a professor of anthropology at the University of Rome. She opened the first Casa dei Bambini, Children’s House, in Rome in 1907 without preconceived notions of a method of education. It was her willingness to observe and follow what the children showed her about how they naturally learned that led to what we today call the Montessori Method. Happy birthday, Maria Montessori!
Full training makes all the difference. This year Is the first year since our Elementary guide, Mr. Tom, completed his AMI Elementary diploma, a diploma that is recognized by Montessori schools and institutions all around the world.
With this training completed he is in a better position than ever before to hit the ground running, assess where the students are in their learning, present the next lesson they need, and bring them along according to their lights, along with his assessment of how quickly they can move to the next thing. He is prepared to show those connections that exist between and among topics of study and questions the children have.
AMI-trained guides typically are found in expensive schools in wealthy enclaves. Hilltop Montessori is blessed to have AMI training at all three of our levels—Toddler, Primary, and Elementary—with the Primary and Elementary guides holding full diplomas at their respective levels.
