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Physical Science & Technology in the Montessori Classroom Montessori Homework Kvetching Respectfully Social Media Complaining IN COLLABORATION WITH

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Physical Science & Technology in the Montessori Classroom

by Michael Jones

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Technology & Montessori: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?

by Mark Berger

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Overheard by a Montessori Mom of Two

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The Habit of Specializing in Children’s Food

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Kvetching Respectfully: Social Media Complaining

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Montessori Homework

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Staying the Course: The Importance of Montessori for the Kindergarten Year

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How Do We Get Kids to Do What We Want?

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Montessori in Nepal

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Grandparent’s Corner: Creating Memories & Establishing Traditions

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

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y the time you read this, it will be a new year: 2016. Another chance to get it right, and this year, more than ever, the imperative to make good choices is critical. From whom we elect to govern our countries, to what we say to our children, to how we care for our planet, to how we implement a personal and global resolution to treat others as we would want to be treated.

In Montessori classrooms and homes, we teach this to our children, but the best way to teach anything is to lead by example.

I recently returned from a trip to visit my grandchildren, during which I had many opportunities to buckle my grandchildren into the safest child seats ever designed, which were, in turn, housed in one of the safest and largest SUVs on the road. As I got behind the wheel of this luxurious road monster, it occurred to me how fortunate we are to be surrounded by families and friends that we love, a home to live in, and enough of all that we need to more than sustain us.

Unfortunately, my mind didn’t stop there.

Sometimes the lawyer in me comes out … as in: Have you considered the other side of the situation? My thoughts then turned to a picture of the body of a toddler washed up on a shore in Greece, the result of a tragedy as he and his parents tried to escape their war-torn country. This little boy, about the same age as the toddler kicking the back of my driver’s seat, was undoubtedly loved just as much as my daughter loves her children and I love my grandchildren. That little boy’s parents tried to do their best to keep him safe, too. They risked their lives to give him a future.

The image I just described is a definite Happy-New-Year buzz kill. Sorry, but maybe we need to be reminded. When seeing so much suffering has become the new ‘normal,’ we have gone too far—we meaning all of us. We have taken our collective global hands off the wheel, trusting that somebody else is taking care of us. I don’t have a plan just a realization that all of us owe all children, at the very least, a basic quality of life, which includes giving them

the opportunity to grow up. Maybe that was an aha moment for me that presented a ‘real-life’ opportunity to understand what Dr. Montessori recognized over one hundred years ago. After all, she lived through two world wars and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps her experiences led her to believe that in the chaos created by grown-ups, we cannot allow our children to become nothing more than collateral damage.

WARTIME PRAYERS

The world is, indeed, in chaos, but as the quote from Chinese philosopher Sun-Tzu reminds us: “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” While it is possible to create opportunity out of chaos, it comes at a cost that not all of us can bear. But one reality is certain: all possible things require human attention.

Wartime prayers Wartime prayers In every language spoken For every family scattered and broken

Carolyn Myss, author of Sacred Contracts (and so much more) recently wrote: “So, look alive every one. It’s time to utilize the power of your soul, your consciousness and your conscience. And that is not a political statement. It is a call to your humanity—as well as a call to prayer.”

And while we’re on the subject of prayer (in a universal, non-sectarian sense), I was reminded of a song written and sung by Paul Simon several years after 9/11. Most people have never heard it. Lyrics and great music speak to me, and maybe this will speak to you. It’s called Wartime Prayers.

Read the lyrics in the sidebar.

Google the video. It’s definitely worth a listen.

Let us all work together for peace in 2016.

In our families. In our schools. In every corner of the globe. And, most especially, in every cell of our hearts, because all children deserve a future.

Prayers offered in times of peace Are silent conversations Appeals for love, or love’s release In private invocations But all that is changed now Gone like a memory from the day before the fires People hungry for the voice of God Hear lunatics and liars

Because you cannot walk with the holy if you’re just a halfway decent man I don’t pretend that I’m a mastermind with a genius marketing plan I’m trying to tap into some wisdom Even a little drop will do I want to rid my heart of envy And cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through Times are hard, it’s a hard time But everybody knows All about hard times, the thing is What are you gonna do?

Well, you cry and try to muscle through And try to rearrange your stuff But when the wounds are deep enough And it’s all that we can bear We wrap ourselves in prayer A mother murmurs in twilight sleep And draws her babies closer With hush-a-byes for sleepy eyes And kisses on the shoulder To drive away despair She says a wartime prayer —Paul Simon

Joyce St. Giermaine, Editor

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in the Montessori Primary Classroom

by Michael Johnson

he Montessori Method is replete with the Life Sciences. We have the Great Lessons, the Botany Cabinet and the Land and Water Forms. We tend gardens and study Biomes. We use shell, bone, feather, and seed samples. We have the plants, fish, reptiles, and small mammals that inhabit our classrooms. We apply to these subjects the fundamental technologies of language and mathematics, household implements, printed media, rulers, clocks and scales, and a unique set of tools providing intentional sensory training.

INTRODUCTION If you could expand your primary equipment set to include the fundamentals of physics and technology without the use of video screens or computers of any kind, but rather by using simple, elegant equipment that applies the Montessori Method in principle, technique and aesthetic, and if you could do this for less than the cost of a fully populated Bead Cabinet, would you?

If you could access an open curriculum that presents the actions, language, and ideas of primary physics in simple terms and logical order, would you?

If you could adapt physics demonstrations ordinarily, and totally unnecessarily, reserved for high school and college students

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to activities well within the capabilities of the primary age child, would you?

If you could integrate current models like STEAM (http:// steam-notstem.com/) and Maker Spaces (http://makerspace.com/ into your Montessori classroom in a way visible to parents and supporters but not requiring the realignment of building space and traffic patterns, would you?

If you could produce original work furthering the Montessori Method in terms of the physical sciences and the technological culture in which the child lives, would you?

Our world culture has, however, evolved since the Method reached its mature expression in the 20th century. While the Method itself is perfectly suited to the present task, the equipment set needs to be expanded to include the mechanical, optical, electrical and electronic technologies that pervade the child’s daily experience and academic future. It is crucial that these technologies not be neglected in favor of the information technologies that so dominate the market place and the marketing of schools themselves. Smart phones, touch tablets and laptops are an end point, not the foundation, of what the primary child needs to learn. While they are as ubiquitous, powerful and as necessary as printed books they are also, like printed books, just one technological tool that the child will need to use. They are by no means the only tool.

When they are used principally as wireless communication devices, unable to access the myriad real-world input and output devices, the recorders, sensors, processors, printers and manufacturing machines that are readily available even at the elementary level, they contribute to a culture of passive consumerism rather than active creation. Used with a lack of understanding of what makes them possible, they result in dependency rather than efficacy.

It is clear that by upper elementary, we need to provide the student the tools of desktop production and equally clear that these tools are computer driven. At this stage of the market place, realistically affordable desktop production includes digital media of all kinds, but it also includes the means of physical production: ink printing and optical etching; light- and heat-cured materials; 3D manufacturing (both printing and milling); robotics; and scientific data generation.

Physical production, making things, begins in early childhood. It begins before computing. It begins before language. It begins with the child’s intimate familiarity with the physical world.

It is too easy, at this stage of our teaching practice, to find older students who can navigate FacebookTM but cannot assemble a circuit connecting

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INTRODUCING:

The Montessori Family Alliance

by Tim Seldin, President, Montessori Foundation

We are pleased to announce that The Montessori Foundation has established the Montessori Family Alliance, a new international network of Montessori parents, teachers, and friends of Montessori. It represents the full spectrum of Montessori voices: speaking to families in public, charter, and private schools (large and small); discussing children from birth through adolescence; exploring Montessori from an international perspective.

Tomorrow's Child serves as a central voice of the Montessori Family Alliance, in both digital and printed form. We are creating something that will be multi-media and multi-faceted.

We are bringing together a collaboration of colleagues, old friends, and new voices to introduce parents to a very wide spectrum of resources, programs, and support.

There will be libraries of articles, links to videos, free webinars, discussion forums, and parenting courses run by staff members of The Montessori Foundation, as well as by others, who can share educational expertise and common-sense wisdom with parents.

Some of this work will be done under the auspices of the Montessori Family Alliance, which will be a wing of The Montessori Foundation; other programs will be offered by parenting experts, using their own networks.

Our intention is to create a much larger virtual Montessori parents' community to educate, encourage conversation, provide answers, access the wisdom of people who have something meaningful to say, and begin to create a core group of more connected parent advocates for Montessori in partnership with the greater Montessori advocacy efforts that are beginning to take shape at the state and national levels.

Montessori Is More Than A School Montessori is much more than an educational approach or a network of schools that follow a distinctly different curriculum. Montessori is a way of raising children and creating a peaceful home. For many of us, Montessori is a way of life.

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 What exactly is my child doing at school?  What can I do at home to help?  What can I do to support my child’s school?  How do Montessori students do when they graduate or transition to other schools?

Our intention is to create a much larger virtual Montessori parents’ community to educate, encourage conversation, provide access to experts, and most importantly, to provide meaningful connections within the Montessori community.

Membership in the Montessori Family Alliance, which includes Tomorrow’s Child magazine and much more, helps parents understand and appreciate Montessori, and shows them how to apply Montessori insights at home.

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The Montessori Family Alliance Board of Advisors and Contributing Editors Cheryl Allen, MA, AMS & IMC— Montessori teacher educator, parenting educator, elementary guide Chelsea Blanco, Psy.D— Psychologist; Montessori mom Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.— Educator, teacher educator, parenting educator, school consultant, and author Kitty Bravo, AMI— Montessori teacher educator, consultant, Educational Director of The Center for Guided Montessori Studies Sharon Caldwell, MCI— Montessori teacher educator, consultant, parent educator; Curriculum Coordinator, Montessori School of Tokyo; Adjunct Staff Montessori Foundation Andrew Cutler, MD— Montessori dad, Physician specializing in Brain Science; Board Chair; President of Florida Clinical Research Center Chip Delorenzo— Montessori teacher educator, parenting educator, and the Head of Darmiscotta Montessori School in Darmiscotta, ME Michael Dorer Ed.D.—AMI Montessori teacher educator, consultant, author Ann Epstein, Ph.D.—AMS Montessori teacher educator, researcher; Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin\LaCrosse Paul Epstein, Ph.D.—AMS Montessori teacher educator, consultant, author; Head of the Rochester Montessori School in Rochester, MN Donna Bryant Goertz, MA, AMI—Founder of Austin Montessori School, Montessori Guide (retired), Author of Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful

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