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| Fruit stamping at the Art Table |
We have started a new year.
I love the beginning of a new year. I love
that it is full of possibilities and fresh starts. This feels like a
big year for me. It's the first time in five years we've had a big
shift in staffing. This shift feels good. There is a new energy in
our classroom. It's infectious and so much is happening both on the
Montessori working front but also creatively. Teachers are making new
materials for the shelves.
There are a lot of Grace and Courtesy lessons
happening right now also. Lessons on how to receive something and
say,"Thank you" and how to ask for something and say "Please". The
best, most positive way to effect change is to model it and be open to
all the ideas and possibilities.
So I am watching and listening. I am
listening to our children, and listening to our teachers. This past
year I was taking a management course at a university. I learned so
much, especially about leadership and what a leader looks like. I am
excited to mentor my new teachers. But most of all I am excited to
teach leadership in my classroom. One of the biggest parts of a
Montessori classroom is the mentoring that happens. The older children
naturally mentor the younger children. We don't call this out and say
it is mentoring it just happens very naturally. It is a beautiful thing
to watch unfold.
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| Parts of the Sunflower |
Fall arrived today; it was the subtlest of shifts. That same sublet shift is starting to happen in our classroom. We are hearing: "I
am bigger" / "I can do more" / "I want to do it myself" / "I want to be the leader" / "Show others how to do it" / "Let them know they can do
it their own way."
I've never been more excited about all that I see and hear unfolding around me. It's going to be a fantastic year!
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| Table Scrubbing |
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