Chesapeake Montessori School had the special privilege of participating in a NASA Wallops Island rocket launch this past summer. Some of our smallest materials (the smallest pink tower cube, representing Children’s House and Toddler, the one, and two beads from the bead chains, representing lower and upper elementary) were carried aboard the rocket in a…
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Fall Teacher Feature: Meet the Faces of CMS
Chesapeake Montessori School is a truly one-of-a-kind place – but you already knew that. As one of the few Montessori schools in Virginia with niche specialists chosen for their expertise and experience in expanding the minds of children, we handpick every new teacher for their strengths, and nourish our community by investing in them as…
Conflict in the Classroom: Respect and Resolution in Montessori School
This year, one in four students headed back to school and will face what no child – or parent – wants to face: a bully that doesn’t back down. In addition to anxiety surrounding school, bullied students are most likely to experience a range of academic and psychological effects outside of the classroom too, including…
Deconstructing Cosmic Education in the Montessori Classroom
Of all the topics I talk to new and visiting parents about, the one that garners the most eyebrow raises is, by far, cosmic education. Is it a religious doctrine? A new age mindset for the next generation? Something to do with astrology? Cosmic education is none of these things. Rather, cosmic education is the…
