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Charlotte Snyder is a Montessori-trained educator, coach, and passionate advocate for respectful, developmentally aligned parenting and classroom leadership. She attended Montessori through elementary school in California, completed her primary training at Montessori Northwest in 2010, and holds a Master of Education degree from Loyola University Maryland. Charlotte has spent years sharing Montessori philosophy with families through writing, teaching, and coaching, and is dedicated to helping adults align intention with impact and nurture independence, curiosity, and connection.
6 Responses
I work with a Montessori Moveable Alphabet, including phonograms.
My natural vocabulary is to describe most phonograms as “digraphs” (2 letters that make a single sound).
Is there a reason to prefer the term “phonogram”? (“A way of writing a sound.”)
Do I confuse by saying “digraph”? Do you discourage use the term?
Thank you.
Dear Richard, thank you for your questions. They were answered during the “Zoom session For Educators: Ask Amy Anything” on February 17th. The recording is now available in our library.
2 Questions
1. My grandson says,”No!” whenever I tell him we will be leaving the park, children’s museum, beach, etc. in 5 minutes. I remind him periodically as the time gets closer and he continues to say, “no.” When the time comes I have to scoop him up bcs he won’t listen and many times we are leaving with him kicking and screaming. Is there a better way for me to help him learn to leave these fun places? You’d think he’d learn after a while.
My grandson will be 3 years old in 2 weeks.
2. He gets very frustrated while playing with his trains when a train comes off the wooden track (Ikea train). He drops to the floor and ends up flat on his back before I get to him. He’s usually he used to cry but now he just lays on his back fruatrated. I’ve tried to model for him to ask for help but he continues to drop to the floor. How can I help him through his frustration?
Dear Eliza, thank you for your questions. They were answered during the “Zoom session For Educators: Ask Amy Anything” on February 17th. The recording is now available in our library.
I have a 3 year old and a almost 1 year old. Recently, the 3 year old has started to push her little brother more and more often. I have tried to make no big deal out of it, and sportcast if I can noticed any specific reason for the event “Hm, it seems like you didn’t want your brother to touch your toy?”. But now, I don’t see any directly connected reasons for the outbursts and she will happily say “Mum, I pushed him!”. And I don’t know how to respond. Any advise?
my baby just started crawling, i am trying to prepare house first floor as baby proof as possible so that he would be able explore everything without me saying no. However how do i teach baby what is safe and what is not? he seems fearless, just tries roll off the sofa, dive head down, if playing outside tries to eat grass. While i know little bit of grass is no harm, however we have foxes in the garden and they may have diseases. I know most common practise is to redirect. but how do i redirect if hes keep going to eat grass, or tries scuba dive down the sofa edge? I feel like since he strt moving, its all these new challenges coming up where i will need to teach him safety, how does montessori approach that?