by “When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I’ve got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.” Ellsworth Kelly Award winning illustrator, Chris Riddell, advocates the importance of drawing with children. He even emphasize that drawing with children should be placed alongside reading a bedtime story. However, the […]
Raising World Citizens the Montessori Way
by What do Anne Frank, Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google founders), Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma (cellist), Helen Keller, Queen Noor of Jordan, George Clooney, and Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel Peace Prize for Literature winner) have in common? Besides their notable contributions to our world, they were all Montessori students. Today I’d like to share […]
Language and Music: Paying It Forward
by There are many things I am grateful for to my mother and music and language exposure is definitely one of them. Although I did not grow up in a bilingual family myself and started with my first language at the age of 9, I always had an easy time picking up languages and mimicking […]
Teaching Kids About the World Through Music
by Kids love music. You may have laughed as your baby happily bopped to the beat before he could walk, or perhaps you’ve noticed your toddler is drawn to playing the drums — or any object resembling drums — like a moth to a flame. As a piano teacher and a music educator, I could go […]
Learning about France in Pittsburgh
by The summers here in Pittsburgh are fun – we take lots of trips to the pool, we try to go camping, we join the library book club and we do a lot of exploring around the city. But this summer, we have a new goal: the kids want to start learning another language and […]