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Montessori Moms: Planting the Seeds of Growth: What Happens After Montessori

Montessori Moms: Planting the Seeds of Growth: What Happens After Montessori : So your child attended a Montessori school for preschool, now what?  Will they have difficulty transitioning to traditional schooling, will ...

What Happens After Montessori

So your child attended a Montessori school for preschool, now what?  Will they have difficulty transitioning to traditional schooling, will they have friends since many of the local children went to a traditional preschool, will they be behind academically........these are many of the questions I have been asked over the years about the children leaving our program and moving on to kindergarten or first grade.  Every child is different, but it has been my experience that most of our students transition with little difficulty to a more traditional setting, however the lifelong skills they learn from their time at Montessori will be benefit them time and time again. My children all went through Montessori and completed the 3 year cycle.  Upon entering first grade I was honestly a bit nervous.  We had been teaching them based on their ability, interest etc and was a bit worried what would happen when faced with an "assignment" they did not want to do or a time frame given to th