Saturday, May 31, 2014

Wonderful Learning Journey

It is that time of the year again when our thoughts, energies and efforts turn towards preparing for the conversion of new Montessori environments. In this school year, we are involved with conversion of 6 new classrooms 2 in Chiang rai and 4 in Mae sot areas with a total of 206 children.

The beginning of a new school year is an exciting time for everyone as we meet new friends, new parents, new teachers and new environments. In the Montessori classroom, this is the time for transition and definitely the time when teachers try to settle new children in. Grace and courtesy are always helpful lessons that assist the children to begin build their independence.

At our current 6 classrooms, we spend the first week orienting the children- showing them the various important places around their environment for example where to find drinking water, toilet, places for their shoes and bags etc. We also showed/ demonstrated as well as modeled small group lessons. We emphasized on how to greet a new friend using eye contact, how to say thank you, how to invite a friend among other social relations.

At the moment the children are on a wonderful learning journey and as we all know, Montessori classrooms focuses more on the process than the finished product........ therefore would like to welcome our readers to relax, enjoy and take every moment as we watch the journey unfold.


Please enjoy our before and after classroom setting up video below: