https://padlet.com/abelshe/VIMSIAMontEdWeek We invite you to share your stories and experiences with the Montessori Program in celebration of Montessori Education Week 2022 en-us 2022-02-22 22:27:20 UTC 2022-02-24 16:25:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/abelshe/VIMSIAMontEdWeek/wish/2062630152 I vividly remember, though it was like 12 years ago (argh) - my 6 year old daughter writing out math problems on a piece of graph paper in her bedroom. Always one to do scribbly lines and call it a novel, I assumed she was playing school. This was set up like a long division problem - some 5 digit number divided by 2 I think. Except - when I looked more closely - it was right! I asked her what she was doing and she said it was the sharing game. At school she had beads to do this work, but she was able to abstract it to a piece of paper and tell me how the beads got equally distributed to two different "peg" people - and she had to go to the bank to cash in one bead for ten of the next denomination bead if it wasn't evenly split. Very interesting work!]]> 2022-02-23 13:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/abelshe/VIMSIAMontEdWeek/wish/2062630152 abelshe https://padlet.com/abelshe/VIMSIAMontEdWeek/wish/2064725461 I have a lot of memories of the Montessori program but my Mom was so enchanted by my Lower Elementary teacher's Book of Virtues. She read from the book in the afternoons as a part of the weekly read-out-loud cycle. We had a tree that we would add leaves labeled with the virtues we would learn about, there would be stories that illustrate the virtues. I remember the passage on Patience if only because the refrain, "Patience is a virtue" was often used in our house. She loved that I would come home and talk about compassion or tranquility - at least from a vocab standpoint! She often credits this school as being my fourth parent. ]]> 2022-02-24 15:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/abelshe/VIMSIAMontEdWeek/wish/2064725461