Summertime Sessions
for Kids
K - 3rd Grade
Summer is the perfect time to strengthen your child's skills through hands-on learning. Using authentic Montessori materials, your child will explore reading and math by seeing, touching, and discovering ideas for themselves. This concrete approach builds real understanding and makes learning enjoyable.
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Each lesson is carefully planned to meet your child where they are and build on what they already know. Together, we'll keep last year's learning fresh, strengthen important foundational skills, and develop new ones - all while building the confidence that comes from real understanding.
My hope is that each child returns to school with stronger skills, greater confidence, and a renewed excitement for learning.
Interested in learning more?
Call or text 413-854-7714 to arrange
a time for us to talk.
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Addition Strip Board
Great for learning math facts!
Mathematics & Montessori
Montessori uses the "concrete-to-abstract" approach, allowing children to physically feel and see mathematical operations before memorizing them. This self-paced, tactile approach helps prevent math anxiety and creates a deep, conceptual understanding of math from an early age. Instead of memorizing procedures, children use hands-on materials to discover how math works. ​​
The Stamp Game
The Snake Game
The Montessori Snake Game is a mathematics activity for children (usually aged 5+) that teaches addition, subtraction, and number bonds of ten using colored bead bars. Children transform a “colored snake” into a “golden snake” by exchanging sets of 10 beads for golden ten-bars, practicing counting and linear addition.
The Stamp Game
The Montessori Stamp Game is designed to help children (typically ages 5 to 7) bridge their understanding from physical, bead-based math to abstract written equations. It teaches place value (units, tens, hundreds, thousands) and all four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, including complex regrouping ("carrying" and "borrowing")
The Snake Game
Language
Writing & Reading
We forget how difficult it is to learn to read. For those of us who read every day, it feels as natural as talking. But for a child, learning to read is one of the most complex things they will ever learn to do. They are learning that spoken sounds can be represented by symbols, that those symbols come together to form words, and that those words carry meaning.
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Some children seem to discover reading with ease, while others need more time, more practice, and a different approach. Every child is unique and deserves to be met where they are, with patience, encouragement, and experiences that help them truly understand how our written language works.
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My role is to guide your child along that path, building each skill step by step with hands-on Montessori materials that make language visible, tangible, and meaningful. As understanding grows, reading begins to unfold with greater confidence, joy and understanding.
Learning phonograms
This approach combining the Movable Alphabet and individual phonograms builds spelling and writing skills before formal reading. It helps learners to decode unfamiliar words, improves spelling accuracy by highlighting logical patterns over rote memorization, and enhances reading fluency and comprehension
Interested in learning more?
Call or text 413-854-7714 to arrange
a time for us to talk.
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One of Dr. Montessori's most important observations was that writing often precedes reading because encoding (expressing your own thoughts on paper) is a more natural, organic extension of spoken language than decoding (interpreting someone else's thoughts from a page)
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For a child who is just beginning to decode, the priority is many small, successful reading experiences. Rather than rushing into leveled readers or long books, Montessori offers a carefully prepared sequence, from objects, to labels, to phrases, to sentences, to stories, so the child develops accuracy, confidence, fluency, and, most importantly, a love of reading.
The "Write it Down" Progression
Combining the Moveable Alphabet with a personal notebook creates a solid transition between composing a word mentally and writing it physically with a pencil.