Farm Cottage Montessori

19/02/2024

A helpful and simple to follow handbook to guide you and your child through the years with love, respect and clear boundaries 💗

16/11/2021

The Farm Cottage Christmas Tree is looking all jazzy🎄 💓

11/11/2021

Hello SUMMER 🌞! How is it this hot already?! 🔥 🥵 Our beautiful Stella doing a great job picking lavender today for our scented sachet work 💜

18/10/2021

Caring for our chooks..their house needed a clean up! 🧹🐥🐓Now time to put our chook house mulch into our spring garden 🪴 🌞

07/10/2021

06/10/2021

S P R I N G G A R D E N S 🌺🌸🐝

13/08/2021

21/04/2021

Always time for tea 🫖

The children love using the new tea set at Rochelles and happily help to make a special morning tea together from beginning to end. So clever and Yum! 😋

09/02/2021

Loads of care, love and attention for our Bazzi Bunny, he loves his daily brushing! 💜

02/02/2021

Love these snaps taken from our photography session 💜 https://www.facebook.com/InspiredKindergartensHomeBasedEducation. Photo credit photography

15/12/2020

As Farm Cottage wraps up for the holiday season, I would like to wish all families and children in our awesome community a wonderful heart filled and safe Christmas! 💜
Also a big thank you to our followers in social media land for your messages and support this year 🎄

It has been an absolute pleasure to teach and guide your children. I feel thankful and so blessed to have them. I absolutely love doing what I do everyday! 🥰

14/10/2020

💚 Always a great feeling to gain positive feedback 💚 Doing what I do for the love of it!

08/10/2020

Just love the school holidays when we have my special helper Indy-Rose join us. She is such an awesome helper to her Mummy and the children. Our Farm Cottage children simply adore her 💚 Thank you my Indy girl 💚

30/09/2020

There are many fallacies and misconceptions around allowing for open-ended play for Montessori children. My belief is that Open-ended activities are great for sensorial and intellectual exploration, creativity and imagination and is a crucial component in the healthy growth of our tamariki.

I see open-ended play in my Montessori home class too,
It doesn’t mean it’s less of the Montessori teaching philosophy. Just as Simone from the Montessori Notebook has shared we can see situations where
“A child who has mastered a basket of language objects will happily pretend to cook with the objects of kitchen items
a child making cookies from playdough
the exploration of a wide range of art materials (from scribbling with chalk to water colour painting to cutting with scissors and creating a collage with the pieces)
playing with the farm animals
children exploring the materials in other ways than I expected – and as long as they are not harming themselves, another, or the materials.”
I will always allow for that exploration💖

03/09/2020

Love thy work 💖

31/08/2020

Many of our childhood beliefs -whether imposed upon us intentionally or not are carried well into adulthood.
And this is one of the many reasons we find ourselves well out of touch with our true selves as adults... find these that don’t serve you and let them go!

21/07/2020

“ C’mon Donny, stop being fast all your life I really really want a cuddle! “ - Billy 💖

20/06/2020

Welcoming our newest member to our Farm Cottage family ... Bazzi, he is a very cute and friendly bunny!!

06/06/2020

Montessori beautifully explained by Simone Davies from The Montessori Notebook 🌻

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1067728143367983

06/06/2020

Otamarakau locals, come along to our annual community event at the Otamarakau Hall. A good chance to meet and greet new community members into our area and have a good ol chin wag with ya neighbours! See you there 🙂

Please share with your neighbours!

01/06/2020

Yum! Must be time for my coffee and cookie! - thank you Indie, you are the best little baker! 🥰

25/05/2020

Away, away- to the mountains away! - Fear not to weary for the sunshine gives you its fire, and your feet will follow the breeze with ease,
Higher and ever higher! 🌈🌟

19/05/2020

Although we‘re unable to travel the continents - we can still explore and discover our world the Montessori way 🌎 #

17/05/2020

Thankful to be back doing tomorrow and loving what I do 🌈🌟

15/05/2020

Placing our new signage- isn’t it beautiful! Thank you so much you guys did a fantastic job I’m so happy!! 🥰🥰🥰

09/05/2020

Happy Mother’s Day 💐

Wishing you all a wonderful day with your families.

Here is an oldie of the legendary Maria Montessori herself with her little followers. Just beautiful 💖

25/04/2020

❤️ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM ❤️

24/04/2020

Hi everyone 👋 With some new recent page likes and members joining our community, allow me to introduce to you all my little whanau 🌻

My name is Rochelle...I began Farm Cottage Montessori Home based Childcare in 2017, I am contracted to an amazing service provider called Inspired. I initially only had a short term vision of caring for children in my own home after the birth of my son in 2016. My idea to provide home based education was born to temporarily help rebalance home/work life with a new baby while Michael worked away from home. I wasn’t intending on carrying this out as long as I have but hey I’m fully committed now and haven’t looked back! It’s been a fantastic move for me professionally as well as personally. I have been working with children and their families as a ECE teacher since I left school in 2004....!! I graduated with a Diploma in Teaching and Learning in 2007 and soon fell in love with the teachings and practices of Montessori Education. I studied again in 2009 completing my International Montessori teaching Diploma for 0-3 year olds.

Michael is my fiancé/ baby daddy - he works away weekdays up in the big smoke, -aka Auckland -while me and the kids hold down the fort. We love Fridays when we get to have him home again! ⭐️

Our silver lining amongst this Covid-19 chaos has been this decent uninterrupted time to spend with one another, it’s been pretty incredible! 🌈 Here are our two gorgeous humans, Indy, who is 7 years old and our 3 year old Billy. 💓💓

I cannot wait to reopen our classroom and be reunited with my care children, I’m reeeaaallly missing all my little lovelies!!!

💖💖💖 Kia Kaha Everyone 💖💖💖

✊Lets kick this! Bring on Level 2! ✊

🌍 💖🙏 💓 🌈🌼⭐️🌍

20/04/2020

🥀🌾🍃🌱 We had so much fun making our flora window designs today! We want to make more! 🌿🌸🌾🌼

09/03/2020

“Happiness blooms from within” 🥀 #