Monthly Archives: March 2015

Bridge Busting

        Those of you who studied architecture may remember this project. You spend weeks building a bridge only to see it broken while testing its structural integrity. Our science class spent weeks studying bridges of all sorts and especially … Continue reading

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The Mathematical Operations

The casa is a-buzz with discoveries in numeracy this week. The third year graduates, aged 5, are making leaps from addition into multiplication. The younger children are heard quantifying and labelling objects in their environment. Melody invented a new game … Continue reading

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Points of Arrival

Throughout the child’s Montessori experience, there are points of arrival: those moments where threads are pulled together, islands of information coalesce into a solid formation, or something which was cloudy yesterday comes into sharp focus today. The third year is when … Continue reading

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