| THE
N.A.M.T.A.
QUARTERLY
volume three
number two
THE CASE FOR MONTESSORI CREATIVITY
The Case for Montessori Creativity… |
| EDITOR
DAVID KAHN
Managing Editor
Barbara Kahn
Assistant Editor
Maribeth Ebner
Editorial Advisory Board
James Roy
Jean… |
| THE CASE FOR MONTESSORI CREATIVITY
Editorial Report:
The Case for Montessori Creativity
by David Kahn… |
| "If we examine the roots of the Montessori movement, at the base of it all is a creative process. a creative
product… |
| Editorial Report:
The Case for Montessori Creativity
by David Kahn
The following article is a reprint of the keynote lecture… |
| Her own personality seemed to embody a certain self actualizing force to such intensi-
ty that certain critics dismissed the… |
| She elevated her illumination to the light of Scripture but like a good scientist she
needed (in what Wallas calls the post… |
| link up revolutionizes each field of study. Montessori was able to find what T.S. Eliot
called the objective correlative to… |
| model for point, line, surface and solid, respectively. The study of lines leads to the
study of angles, the study of angles… |
| dom to move each piece where one wishes, but on the rules which prescribe ela-
borately that each kind of piece can be moved… |
| cannot sleep, it is on such an occasion that my ideas flow best and most abun-
dantly. Whence and how they come I know not,… |
| their emphasis on conscious memory. Montessori describes the learning brea.kthrough
exactly as Mozart and Poincare aUude to… |
| Music Education From Birth To Twelve
by Martha and Sanford Jones
Well received nationally, Sanford and Martha Jones present a… |
| CHANSON DE LA MARIEE.
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| around age 8, so the sensorial preparation coupled with the notation material
enable the child to function as composer and… |
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"Would you like to hear 'Twinkle, Twinkle'?"
"Let's listen to a minuet by Mozart… |
| vity without help. This kind of experience with music prepares the chiJd
not only for work in the Primary classroom, but it… |
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are the Walking on the Line exercises, which are an essential part of the
daily routine of a new class. Lessons of this… |
| 4. Instruments:
As each percussion band instrument is introduced, the children should be
shown the technique of playing, how… |
| Very gradually each new element is introduced, and as more and more are
combined the grand staff is evolved, so that as the… |
| "Music can touch us in a way that nothing else can; no
better gift can we given the children than to open this
door… |
| 18 |
| "Aren't You Glad You Don't Believe In Group Art?"
By Nel Weniger
Just before Christmas as my… |
| pleasing to look at as the younger child was, but he has strength of character, physical
fortitude and intellectual strength.… |
| ment. An easel, with onJy one side used, should stand or hang from the wall at a 20-25
degree angle in an area outside the… |
| Almost any art activity can be introduced at the Children's House level. However, I
feel that it is extremely important… |
| among the more deviated ones who come into the Children's House. Perhaps if they
had experienced similar activities at… |
| The elementary child creates almost entirely from imagination. This imagination is
based on his wealth or dearth of images… |
| Creativity: Its Role in Development
by Tillie Sullivan
Ms. Sullivan compiles a Montessori view of creativity seen as a… |
| modern "art", much of which reflects the chaos in which modern man has had to
construct himself.
What the… |
| nature and whole being what is necessary for life.''1
The Montessori Environment is designed and maintained on this… |
| The Sensorial activity which lays the foundation for later musical activities is the
Noise Boxes, which help the child develop… |
| His own compositions play a large part in this developing consciousness, as does
listening to music. Through the development… |
| "Our object has never been to strictly make money; we
have always wanted to support and promote Montes-
. "… |
| Feature:
Nienhuis - Who Are You?
by David Kahn
Introduction
When a customer receives a refined. polished nomenclature box,… |
| The factory operation gives many impressions - order, precision, solidity, and once
again good humor. The employees are both… |
| At the end of that period everything was together, the showroom, the factory,
the offices and the warehouse, but the… |
| and although we expanded twice during the twelve years at Zelhem, there are
no longer difficult situations. To give some idea… |
| artisans working production here. We can't get this kind of highly professional-
ized tabor anywhere else.
Although the… |
| neatly planted shrubs, vines and flowers with hand laid brick paths. Bert has built a
farmpen near the house; the goats… |
| terrelated, to see what Montessori has given and what still has to be developed." John
(his Americanized first name)… |
| Curriculum Development:
The Montessori Approach To Mathematics
by Carnillo Grazzini
Camillo Grazzini, prominent Montessori… |
| In Psicoaritmetica, Maria Montessori speaks of how, before, the quantities were
'really' given by objects, objects… |
| bases other than ten. The Montessori attitude to New Math differs sharply from the
conventional one with respect to age and… |
| In the Service of Man
Now let us consider the Montessori attitude to New Math from the point of view of
aims. We have to… |
| continue by using the small letters - a; b; c; ... v; w; x - and finally x +
JO.
And this ten stands for a set of objects… |
| who had no experience of monetary depreciation) a feeling of real amazement. In fact
in the Egyptian 'alphabet',… |
| Classroom Management:
The Practical Life Exercises
by Margot R. Waltuch
Margor R. Walruch embodies rhe pioneer spirir of the… |
| 7. They create unity between thought, will, and action.
We are speaking of universal principles guiding the development of man… |
| a door. "Oh, we must tell them not to bang the door." That is, of course, not the
moment we do it, as you… |
| The analysis of movement is bound up with economy of movement; i.e., to perform
only movement necessary for the purpose. This… |
| say, "don't stop here." The training has given several main areas, but it is up to the
teacher to work… |
| "Let's change the linen, let's do it together." And through the repetition, the child sees,… |
| Spiritual Education:
The Parable Method
Dr. Sofia Cavalletti
Dr. Cavalletti utilizes the parable as the basis for her… |
| The parable opens a door to us, but to walk ahead on the path that departs from it
- this is ours to do. The parable, however… |
| true Vine)2, he has made us know the reality of his Kingdom, he has disclosed the
secrets of certain actions of God, which… |
| STUDY
THE SUBTLE AND IMMENSE
RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE CHILD
WITH
DR. SOFIA CA V ALLETTI
DIRECTOR
THE CATECHETICAL CENTER,… |
| Parent Education Exchange:
Readiness: A Letter to Parents
by Barbara Harrison
The ideas for this letter grew out of my… |
| We would like to ask you as parents to help us reduce this apprehension and prepare
our oldest students for the change that is… |
| Announcements:
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