Discovering Our Way

We continued our study of the Montessori Five Great Lessons with a two week exploration of the Coming of Life to Earth. The Coming of Life focuses on the historical evolution of Life from early bacteria and other single-celled organisms to the formations of plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. The lesson ends just at the advent of humans. The guide that we used strongly encouraged providing real examples of living plants and animals to compare to the…

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Montessori elementary has five signature lessons at the core of the curricula that are told each year for the six years of elementary.  The lessons generally cover the origins of all things: the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life, the beginning of humans, the beginning of writing and the beginning of numbers.  I’ve been so excited all summer, because our local enrichment program has a science class and they agreed to teach the lessons in a six week…

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