Folks it has been an
evenfull week. With new works,new students, and exciting results. Each time a child reaches into the depths of their concentration and works I am reminded not only of the miracle
taht they are but also of the fact that how wonderfully Dr. Maria Montessori understood and worked for their very special needs. For what we term as need is very different from that of a child.
The simplest example of that is the fact that while man orients his environment according his needs, the children orient themselves according to the environment. And that is where more
tahn anything else that needs to be thought through, it is the environment of the child that needs to be
focused upon.
At
Casa dei Montessori, my endeavour is to provide this guided
developmentally appropriate environment. And the fruits are tremendous.
Ad so it has been a fun week watching children patiently try out new work, gain proficiency in the old work and grow. In fact there was no art or cooking this week gone by as the children opted for working with the material instead.
And now about the material. The lure of it is so strong that often I see children who come to pick up their siblings, no matter what age, shyly but surely creep in to
work as well. My elder one (aged 12) wanted to see the class so I invited him this
Saturday after class. He was so happy and started
working with the bead puzzles.
And with such
wonderful reassurances my Montessori journey continues.........
Advay working with the new work of the week- opening and closing of the boxes
Parthvi making size differentiations with the geo solids
Ariv at the cylinder blocks
Adhvik at his independent work with the sound boxes
Aishwarya with her colour explorations
Pravansh getting the sound boxes right in the first go
Parthvi's mountains
Nimisha's insect collection
The gardener of the day- Parthvi
Optical explorations being introduced with the periscope, kaleidoscope, telescope and the hand held lens
Mix media- Ariv's ocean drawing with all the sea animals on it
Pravansh exploring the leaf venation with lens and then drawing it on the paper
Nimisha working with the bead stair
Aishawaryaa being introduced to the decimal system
Aishwarya verifying if a bar of 10 is the same as the ten cubes of units
10 bars of 10 make a 100 being verified here
Ariv checking out the geo solids in his pursuit to build homes 
Shapes being achieved with base and shape explorations
An older child, Pravensh, working out the number facts of 10
The beginning, this is the preparatory phase where the child is getting ready to differentiate between textural sensations to prepare for future sandpaper letter tracing.
And Nimisha is working on the sandpaper letters
This is one of the exercises where we are working with the phonic sounds.
While Iwait for the LMA box to arrive, my LMA printouts, are being worked upon with the Pink scheme object boxes.
And here is another one
.....and another
This an almost reading child's work. Pravansh's Pink scheme picture sheets
Lavanya carting her xylophone
Adhvik works with his pegs and doubles as audience
Advay at the tamborine that are his drums as well
Adhvik decides to joing in at the xylophone
Sanvi at the bead patterns
Nimesh at it! (this really is his favourite)
Ariv at the maze
Him at the beads
Advay at the maze
Nimisha at the beads
Sanvi holding up her beautiful lacing
These guests really went to work- here's Sanvi at the colour tablets
And Devansh trying out the inset drawing
One of the hosts- Inesh at the sound boxes
Devansh tryng wet pouring with glasses i.e. without the spouts
