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Sequence 1nat petioles. These kinds of sensorial experiences encourage children to use many of their senses for scientific exploration,… |
Sequence 2that they had been too loud. I told them that they had done a very good job and I thought they were very quiet. I explained… |
Sequence 1done something wrong usually tends to deny his involvement in negative situations. Therefore I was very pleased to be able to… |
Sequence 2another two-week period they were allowed to open the cage and feed her by filling her bowl; they could also bring special… |
Sequence 1PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT The child is initiated info .foresight; when he knows that the life of the planrs that have been… |
Sequence 250 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 17, No. 3 • Summer 1992 |
Sequence 3Introducing Water Plants (Upper Elementary) by Michael Bagiackas When over three hundred native wildlife plants to be… |
Sequence 4Four boys volunteered to help. They had met the basic criterion of having a spare set of clothes to change into upon their… |
Sequence 5see that I have a responsibility to the students to help them to be prepared for various weather forms particularly with a… |
Sequence 6the face of adverse conditions. Certainly they wanted to leave, and when one of them announced his intention to do so, the… |
Sequence 1the face of adverse conditions. Certainly they wanted to leave, and when one of them announced his intention to do so, the… |
Sequence 2day by deciding which projects need to be accomplished, overseeing the gathering of tools, and purchasing of materials,… |
Sequence 3And moments later: "Laurie?" ''l'm here!" "OK." I still hear the… |
Sequence 4And Lhe school community becomes a small example of the larger world community in action, helping and sharing, planning and… |
Sequence 1And Lhe school community becomes a small example of the larger world community in action, helping and sharing, planning and… |
Sequence 2It was a delight to help the children measure and establish their angles with stakes, string, and measuring sticks. They… |
Sequence 3twelve, there is the joy in applying mathematics to a tangible, meaningful project, of seeing how and why a mathematical… |
Sequence 1twelve, there is the joy in applying mathematics to a tangible, meaningful project, of seeing how and why a mathematical… |
Sequence 2my class and I were gathered around a tangle of grapevines and we envi- sioned this primitive shelter. In a flurry of activity… |
Sequence 3Clearly, the construction of a primitive hut evokes a myriad of curricu- lum opportunities in the study of shelter, the study… |
Sequence 1Creative Pollution Control (Lower Elementary) by Jeanne Catalano Charles. who is an avid conserv(lfionist. develops a… |
Sequence 2Curriculum Extensions The importance of impres- sionistic storie and charts for botany study is illu trated here. Charles… |
Sequence 1Plant Sale (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A venture into the business of growing and selling annuals and veg•… |
Sequence 2Unfortunately, we received orders for less than half of what we grew, which was an interesting lesson in supply and demand,… |
Sequence 3program. But "going-out" into the community and working on projects that have tangible outcomes recognized… |
Sequence 1program. But "going-out" into the community and working on projects that have tangible outcomes recognized… |
Sequence 2Curriculum Extensions Clearly students need to be challenged and encouraged in the first place and later per- milled to… |
Sequence 1Suddenly We Have a Nursery (Upper Elemetltary) by Michael Bagiackas An unexpected gift of 50 three-year-old plants just… |
Sequence 2Fortunately we had learned from our experience and had decided that instead of trying to introduce our next batch of young… |
Sequence 3Jan, true to her word, was at school early. She was delighted to see how quickly we had mobilized in response to her call. The… |
Sequence 4in the case of putting in the nursery, we find that the presentation itself has stretched on for six hours. The children have… |
Sequence 5I witnessed through the course of the day working attitudes of a number of children. Two boys stayed with me for almost the… |
Sequence 1MAINTENANCE AND PRACTICAL LIFE The child adapts chee,fully to the simplest doings, such as to have an immediate end in view,… |
Sequence 274 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 17, No. 3 • Summer 1992 |
Sequence 3Joys of Gardening (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Even at age thirteen, the co11.temment of working in the soil… |
Sequence 4strong, and working wilh the hands and body is still joyful. Although these children are capable of high levels of abstraction… |
Sequence 1strong, and working wilh the hands and body is still joyful. Although these children are capable of high levels of abstraction… |
Sequence 2C., nine years old, worked conscientiously to finish his assignments and projects-but not without struggling, often requiring… |
Sequence 3Psychological Implications The use of a machine like a rototiller is, first and foremost, a physical, hands-on experience-… |
Sequence 1Psychological Implications The use of a machine like a rototiller is, first and foremost, a physical, hands-on experience-… |
Sequence 2The children were instructed to put food items such as carrot, banana, orange, or cucumber peels, nut shells, and so on from… |
Sequence 3site while exploring the lunches the children bring. On the one hand it is a nice experience to learn how to coexist with the… |
Sequence 4Pat, the other children's house guide, and I both had student teachers at the same time. We were having some beautiful… |
Sequence 5the ability to nurture and see the long-range benefits of returning babies to their original home as well as carrying out a… |
Sequence 1A Pondsite Adventure (Primary) by Pat Doyle Proctor A walk to observe the newly cleared and excavated pondsite becomes an… |
Sequence 2principal." And I kept saying, "No, we'll get out." Emrys got a stick to dig the mud off my… |
Sequence 3almost a shallow wetland, dug to specification with varying depths to promote inhabitation by wildlife. However, nature… |
Sequence 4As suggestions were made, creative instincts, imagination, and abstrac- tion were evident. The solution of the stick platform… |
Sequence 1ARTS AND ENACTMENT Human co11scio11s11ess comes i1110 the world as a flam- ing ball of imagination. Everything invented by… |
Sequence 2Celebrating the Spring Equinox 88 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 17, No. 3 • Summer 1992 |
Sequence 3Tuning in to Our Animal Nature (Upper Elementary) by Michael Bagiackas The land lab provides a location for physical… |
Sequence 4"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intel- lect; we apprehend it just as much by… |
Sequence 1Stalking in the Meadow (Upper Elementary) by Michael Bagiackas An extemporaneous predator-prey game in the ,neadow… |
Sequence 2Webbing "Here is a game that makes very clear the essential interrelationships among all the members of nature… |
Sequence 3Curriculum Extensions The historical basis for understanding the hunter psyche and how that played in the development of… |
Sequence 1The Fall Equinox (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A school-wide celebration of the fall equinox combined native… |
Sequence 2We have since developed community celebrations for the winter solstice and the spring equinox. These celebrations have… |
Sequence 3Celebrating such changes as a community can help our children become aware of such cycles as natural and beautiful. The… |
Sequence 1Celebrating such changes as a community can help our children become aware of such cycles as natural and beautiful. The… |
Sequence 2he had also been identified as learning disabled. He resented being taken out of the classroom for tutoring sessions several… |
Sequence 3can provide the motivation to improve in reading, writing, and spelling. Focusing on a child's strengths, rather than… |
Sequence 1APPENDIX I THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN The following article provides 011 urban counterpoint lo a rural outdoor education… |
Sequence 3THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN by Carrie Driver-Johnson, Mark Johnson, and Lori Butler The idea for the MacDowell Montessori… |
Sequence 4Master Garden Acclimation Garden The Children's Garden The current dimensions of rhe proposed MacDowell School garden… |
Sequence 5The Montessori environment is a perfect one in which to facilitate a cosmic gardening experience. Children need a safe place… |
Sequence 6sensory exploration-smell, feel, taste. However, the key is to keep the children's garden a place of wonder and beauty… |
Sequence 7analyses and take samples to be sent to laboratories for more extensive analysis such as for heavy metals common in city soil… |
Sequence 8The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 2and refinement of the Montessori materials over time and in the persona implicit in the sentiment of Montessori's writing… |
Sequence 3educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that… |
Sequence 4elementary and adolescent planes. The reflective discussions about the human faculties of abstraction and imagination-all this… |
Sequence 5stand and build our Montessori foundations on which the next generation will build theirs by adhering to the essentials while… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL ON THE PRESERVATION OF MONTESSORI IDEAS by Tim Duax I have heard it asked, don't Montessori trainers adhere… |
Sequence 2approach? Look at the history of the psychoanalytic movement as an analogy to that of the Montessori movement. Sigmund Freud… |
Sequence 1PARTI PHILOSOPHICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS Montessori pedagogy is grounded in a philosophical outlook which borrows from… |
Sequence 2Australian Aboriginal Art 10 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 18, No. 1 • Winter 1993 |
Sequence 3LITERACY AND THE ORAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION by Kieran Egan Drawing upon scholarship in the classics and in anthropology,… |
Sequence 4encoding and decoding "skills" and must en- compass significant features of rationality (Olsen, 1977, 1986… |
Sequence 5(Levi-Strauss, 1962). Literacy is a set of strategies that are not only utilitarian, but also bon a penser. One purpose of… |
Sequence 6what Ong ( 1982) has called "second orality." The electronic media are its most energetic promoters, but… |
Sequence 7achievements. Educated Victorians were more familiar with long-ago battles on the windy plains of Troy, the wooden horse, and… |
Sequence 8The story of the rediscovery of the Homeric methods of composition is itself an epic of scholarly ingenuity. In the 1920s,… |
Sequence 9These metrically arranged units of sound, then, accumulated line by line in the Homeric poems to repeat the heroic story. The… |
Sequence 10poetic culture that preceded them. In particular, they highlight Plato's reasons for wishing to exclude poets from his… |
Sequence 11to sleep, in the market or the field, are constantly repeated pieces of the great myths or epic poems of oral cultures.… |
Sequence 12would wish to replicate all aspects of this phenomenon in our schools, it seems important to understand the nature of their… |
Sequence 13In particular, their myths, and the range of techniques used to transmit them, differ significantly. It is inevitably… |
Sequence 14The people he observed had a highly developed set of techniques for learning and remembering, and their apparent incapacity… |
Sequence 15a charge of emotional identification that greatly enhanced social cohesion and control. Myth stories also, of course, have… |
Sequence 16to create particular emotional effects and fix particular meanings. The shaping of sound finds one outlet in poetry and… |
Sequence 17attempts to pinpoint the causes and character of this sense of participation in nature display a conviction that, despite… |
Sequence 18store knowledge largely in narrative concerned with interacting human or quasi-human figures" (1977, p. 112), there… |
Sequence 19distinction between subjective states and the properties of the cosmos" (Levi- Strauss, 1969, p. 240). Oral cultures… |
Sequence 20used to achieve this end is the assertion of continual rebirth-rebeginning as the first beginning. We preserve a vague shadow… |
Sequence 21against change and innovation serve stability, order, and intellectual security. One's familiar territory is… |
Sequence 22favoured the increase in scope of critical activity, and hence of rationality, scepticism, and logic" (Goody, 1977, p… |
Sequence 23indeed the "savage" mind "does not bind itself down, as our thought does, to avoiding… |
Sequence 24to a cultural environment shaped by centuries of elaboration of the thinking techniques made possible by literacy. Second, it… |
Sequence 25Those techniques used in oral cultures to shape sound into more memo- rable fonns we find also to be prominent in children… |