Getting older at this age it is an everyday celebration of the brain’s conquests. We see children making more complex connections and getting enthusiastic about their self-discoveries.
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With new materials to sort, transfer and rearrange, with water to be poured, spilled and cleaned up, with tables to be scrubbed, fun and learning go hand in hand.
In January we talked about the Earth as part of the solar system. We started with a Polynesian folktale about five brothers who wanted to catch the sun.
One of the favorite lessons this past month was building fractals with bead bars, and seeing fractals in pictures of ferns, trees, corals, snowflakes, and crystals.
“There is a part of a child’s soul that has always been unknown but which must be known. With a spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm we must go in search, like those who travel to foreign lands and tear up mountains in their search for hidden gold” –Maria Montessori, “The Secrets of Childhood” Dear parents, [...]
Looking back to where we started and where we are now, we can see many other achievements along with a happy day-to-day life.
“The first duty of an education is to stir up life, but leave it free to develop” Maria Montessori We are privileged to be able to see the magic of a child development unfold under our very eyes. The past ten months showed us once again how time has different speeds for different ages, [...]
“Every blade of grass is a study” – Abraham Lincoln As the spring opens the buds and wakes up the dormant bugs, the children are first to notice every little change in our environment: be it outdoors or indoors. This acute sense for observation and keen attention for detail are valuable tools for learning [...]
“If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on their own way to independence.” Maria Montessori – “The Discovery of the Child” Daily Living Activities are added in coordination with the unit studies (scooping, pouring, and transferring with tweezers pearls and tiny shells, sorting and grading shells by [...]
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry”. Maria Montessori In the Earth-science unit the children learned about: How rocks change over a long period of time and can be grouped in three main categories based and how and where they are formed. [...]