Shannon Black

  If you could make 2021 THE year to lower your stress and increase your contentedness with life, achieve more success in your job, excel in one area as a parent that you've noticed lately ...
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We opened our doors at 104 Northwest Drive on September 1, 2006 and will close our doors at that location on December 23rd. I opened Sunrise because I wanted to create a preschool experience that I ...
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This week, my blog is written by talented the Leslie Campos. A busy mom herself, Leslie Campos has dedicated her site Wellparents.com to all the moms and dads out there searching for ideas on being ...
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How it all begins In a nutshell, the Montessori curriculum begins in Practical Life. In order for children to excel in learning, they must learn to concentrate first. Practical Life is the area of ...
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This year has been one of most stressful on record for Sunrise Montessori. As if worrying about Covid wasn't enough, my team had to endure either being laid off for 5 weeks or watch 60% of their ...
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Construction is nearing an end (yay!) for the addition of seven classrooms to our Sunrise East location. Three of those classrooms already have a waiting list, which got me thinking...with many of ...
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Sensorial materials are naturally one of the materials that a child loves and gravitates towards in a Montessori classroom. Who doesn't love to test their hearing, like the boy in the picture just to ...
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Reading this sentence probably seems effortless to you now, but once upon a time, you didn't know that these symbols were letters which formed words and that words could be communicated both verbally ...
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My son, John, experimenting with his Captain Underpants costume Unsure if your child should be out trick or treating this year? It's a BIG question, one that many of our parents at Sunrise Montessori ...
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My 4 year old son, John, with Captain Hook at Disney World Does it feel like your child never listens to you? Or that what you've been using isn't working anymore? Does this picture above feel like ...
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My nephew, Jeff, with my sister, Heidi When I go to my sister's house for a visit and her boys are there, it never fails to impress me. They are both adult men now and eat healthy. They COOK....with ...
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Do you like my title? Eye catching, isn’t it? I’m not one to swear online (trying to keep my G-rated business as close to G as possible….H on occasion, then I draw the line), but it’s not really me ...
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For those teachers or parents who have a child in the school system right now, can I just give you a hug? This Distance Learning thing has been wild. We offer care for elementary children right now ...
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We had a touring family this past week come to our East location. It was a couple with a 10 week old baby and when our Director asked them why they were looking for care, she received what is now what ...
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. —Mary Pickford For school districts in our area, the first day of school is upon us. An ...
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That title. Not a fun thing to type. You may wonder why I’m broadcasting it on my blog. Let me tell you what’s happened and I’ll explain afterwards, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out along the ...
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