Lessons on Nigerian Food Materials:3 to 4 food crops in their natural state. (For example, Rice, beans, yam and eggs) 3 part cards on Nigerian Food Crops Àims:To bring children to the awareness of where their food comes fromTo widen their knowledge about plants and living things.To enable the child understand that there is a … More Montessori Inspired Lessons on Nigerian Food

Book Review Title: Train Up Author: Zainab Obi (Zee) The book Train Up is Zee’s briliant book that focuses in on discipline. She answers the question ‘What is discipline?’ in a very deep but matter of fact manner. Train up explores the issue of implementing a ‘discipline that rocks’ In this review we will be … More Book Review: Discipline that Rocks

A child keeps picking up the flower puzzle once or twice a week, looks at it and then sets it back in it’s place on the shelf each time. The teacher has been watching and taken note. The child, Yemi, goes on to work on other things each day. He is 3 and a half … More Respecting the Child

Reading is a skill that everyone needs. The benefits of reading and becoming an avid reader are obvious. There is a common saying: “Readers are Leaders” A common question that both teachers and parents ask is: “How can I help my child/pupils love reading?” Let’s provide some suggestions below to help with getting us started … More How to encourage our children to Read

I keep getting a constant question, ‘So how do I teach my child to behave? How do I teach a child to be disciplined without shouting, yelling and flogging?’ Some go as far as telling me that it is not possible, that children who don’t get this special treatment of the yelling and shouting game, … More On the Issue of Teaching the Child

  It has become a regular occurrence, everywhere you turn there are new Montessori manufacturers on the block. I am not here to burst your bubble, but I will say this: schools, teachers and parents be on the alert. Some of our manufacturers do know what they are doing, but to many have no clue … More On the Issue of Montessori Materials

Title: The Discipline that Works Author: Wendy Onyenezi-Ologe The book The Discipline that Works naturally follows on from Wendy’s first book Connect to Correct, which focuses on how to build great relationships with a child. Once a parent or adult has worked out the best way to build meaningful relationships, how do you go on … More Book Review: The Discipline that Works

Maria Montessori believed that the adult had a strong responsibility to guide the child. She also believed that the adult must prepare the environment, know the materials and lessons to be taught. But above all, that the teacher should know the child through constant observation, in an environment that is punctuated with lots of freedom, … More Children need a Prepared Adult

A new cycle of our popular online Montessori Courses, the Professional Montessori Educator and The Montessori Teacher Program are about to start running from 14th October with Ayopeju Falekulo as the course trainer. When you complete this course you will have a thorough grounding in the Montessori theory relating to the nursery age child, you … More Online Montessori Course