Grace is generally used as a girl's name. It consists of 5 letters and 1 syllable and is pronounced Grace. In the U.S. in 2014, it ranked 21 in baby name popularity for girls with 7554 occurrences. It ranked 6729 in popular baby names for boys with 12 occurrences.View the Grace Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Grace has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Grace to other names. The names Gracia, Gracja, Gratia, Grazia are all forms of Grace.Grace has the diminutive (nickname) Gracie. Grace falls into the classic name category.t ranked 6729 in popular baby names for boys with 12 occurrences. View the Grace Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Grace has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Grace to other names. The names Gracia, Gracja, Gratia, Grazia are all forms of Grace.
Dr Maria Montessori. Dr Maria Montessori (1870-1952) has been described as an educator, scientist, physician, philosopher, feminist and humanitarian, and was the first early childhood educator to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1906 Montessori was invited to oversee the care and education of a group of children of working parents in a new apartment building for low-income families in the San Lorenzo district in Rome. Montessori was interested in applying her work and methods to mentally normal children, and she accepted. The name Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House, was suggested to Montessori, and the first Casa opened on January 6, 1907, enrolling 50 or 60 children between the ages of two or three and six or seven.