Shannon Black

The Ganeys, above, and the Cass Family We started a fun tradition in 2018 at Sunrise Montessori called Family of the Month. You would think that maybe it gets harder each month to pick a family who ...
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Seeing traffic makes me happy. :) Remember last year about this time? Everyone was home, too scared to go out, not sure what the heck was going on and texting neighbors to see if they had a roll of ...
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Sunrise garden plots! You will find that the children are growing sunflowers, cilantro, tomatoes, beans and more! I have a competitor to thank for my love for gardening. When I found out another ...
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  We have had several conferences over the years where a parent accused another child of being a bully. Bullying is a BIG word, one that we don't use lightly at Sunrise Montessori because it's ...
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There is no more important activity for preparing a child to succeed as a reader than listening to their someone read to them. It's no secret that reading books and other learning activities at home ...
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It’s easy to get busy and feel overwhelmed with caring for our kids, maintaining a household, working, and keeping up with all the activities that are a part of our family's life. Those things are ...
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This week's blog post is written by Leslie Campos of WellParents.com. (Thank you, Leslie!) I hope you find it helpful and informative, Shannon Becoming a Mom or Dad is an exciting rite of ...
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MATH....A word that strikes loathsome fear or dewy-eyed love in the hearts of us all. If you had asked me what I thought about math in high school, I would have told you that it's okay. I was ...
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  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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