" Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants - doing nothing but living and walking about came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning: Would you not think I was romancing? Well just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning. This is the path he follows. He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so passes little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading always in the paths of joy and love. " -Dr. Maria Montessori
Here is a structure that was built by a child that was given the freedom to make his own choices. It reminds me of the philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori...
" Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants - doing nothing but living and walking about came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning: Would you not think I was romancing? Well just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning. This is the path he follows. He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so passes little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading always in the paths of joy and love. " -Dr. Maria Montessori
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This week we had a blast being creative making our Technicolor Turkeys. Each child used finger paints to create the multicolored turkey tail feathers. They dipped their fingers into the paint and then patted the back of a paper plate. To make the neck and head of the turkey they used the ball of their foot as the brush and stepped on the plate. They had a lot of practice identifying different colors and experimenting with color combinations. The favorite lesson of the project was finding out that mixing blue and yellow makes green. |
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