Workshop – day 3
We spent two days measuring and cutting the joists, nailing in the joist hangers, mixing the concrete to keep the joists off the ground, and… more
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Carbon dating
A 3-minute video overview: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvhe.sci.chemistry.decay/radioactive-decay-of-carbon-14/ University of Oxford’s Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has a good explanation: https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/dating.html BBC has a short explanation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/carbon_dating_01.shtml A video on… more
The Bronze Age and the Number 7 Bus
Dear Tracey, Stephen, Zoe and Al, I just wanted to share with you a little bit of a really wonderful experience I had on Thursday… more
Volume of poyhedron
Montessori said (I am paraphrasing) that in this work with children we do not believe because we see; but we see because we believe. In… more
Montessori for Bumps
Welcome. I want to tell you about the baby you are going to have. She is an extraordinary being! So sensitive, so intelligent, so finely… more
Christmas 2015 Plays
Elementary: The Snow Queen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yySxY1Di-jg Children’s House: The Little Fir Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niGJUdStqaY
Erasmus Grant
NEWS: On 18. – 20. September 2015 The first international meeting of the Montessori Adolescent Programme Inspiration (MAPI) project took place in Prague at the… more
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
Wilma Landauer (mum of Ethan age 6 and Emily age 4) accompanied/followed 4 of the Elementary children to the Natural History Museum, and wrote this… more
On the disconnection of subjects.
“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it.” Alfred North Whitehead, 1916… more
Keeping the inner flame burning.
Someone wise once said that education isn’t about filling an empty vessel, its about keeping a flame burning. Here is a video of Grace who… more
