Category: ShortPump Blog

Short Pump Blog – These are the blogs associated with Short Pump, in Richmond VA. A top-rated preschool, childcare, daycare, and kindergarten school.

Three Alternative Ways To Say “Good Job!”
Three Alternative Ways To Say "Good Job!" There is no question that we want children to feel successful when they accomplish something. Oftentimes we jump up and down and clap, say hooray, and smile to indicate that the young child has done something correctly, sufficiently, or appropriately. But can we make this special moment more purposeful...
Read More
What to Expect After One Year of Montessori – By Age Group
What to Expect After One Year of Montessori - By Age Group Quick - think back to last year (which seems like a lifetime ago) and picture your child. Were they born yet? Were they just learning to walk? To read? Now, look ahead. Is your child born yet? Running everywhere and jumping off of tables?...
Read More
Two Fast Ways to Foster Toddler Independence at Home
Two Fast Ways To Foster Toddler Independence At Home Providing your young child with more independence can actually increase the number of activities possible to do with your active toddler. There is no doubt that offering independence is challenging for the adult - so many things are more convenient if we just do them ourselves....
Read More
Making Mornings Easier with Toddlers
Making Mornings Easier with Toddlers Some mornings, there’s barely enough time to drink that hot fresh coffee you just made - mainly because you’ve spent all morning getting your energetic or unwilling toddler ready for school. Here are 3 easy tips you can implement now for immediate results. 1. Create a 3-step routine that never...
Read More
Top 5 Questions to Ask When Touring Montessori Schools
Top 5 Questions to Ask When Touring Montessori Schools “You should start looking at schools as soon as you know you’re pregnant!”, “That school has a year-long waitlist already” - have you heard your “parent friends” carrying on about this before? Seems a bit extreme, but many of these parents are accurate in finding a...
Read More
Montessori Birthday Celebrations
Montessori Birthday Celebrations Montessori classrooms have a unique way of celebrating the children’s birthdays, and although sweets are not necessarily forbidden, this tradition has nothing to do with cupcakes. The Montessori birthday celebration focuses on concepts related to the passage of time while truly honoring each child on his or her special day. Montessori students...
Read More
Montessori Knobless Cylinders
Montessori Knobless Cylinders The Montessori knobless cylinders are 4 sets of 10 wooden cylinders each in a different color.  The knobless cylinders are identical sets to the knobbed cylinders, except for the knobs and the colors, and they can fit into the four-cylinder blocks. The knobless cylinders are parts of the sensorial curriculum and they...
Read More
Handwriting the Montessori Way
Handwriting the Montessori Way Kids in Montessori Daycare learn to write their letters in a unique way. Maria Montessori used her intuitive observations of children to devise a method of teaching handwriting that was tailored to their specific patterns of development. And, like many aspects of Montessori education, learning to form letters follows a very...
Read More