Religious concepts in children life!

Dr. Montessori did not only develop amazing materials for child use but she also believed that society, family and teachers should strive to introduce religious concepts in child’s life; since young children also absorb the church, temple, Mosque and other religion ceremonies.  Recently, all over Thailand we celebrated the “Wan Khao Pan saa” festival – meaning rain retreat or Buddhist lent day. The school children marched to their local temples to mark the procession. The celebrations were obviously at our Montessori classrooms as the children showed their dance movements and participated by carrying candles, and some modeled out as Monks to mark this colorful event.



" Wan Khao Pan Saa" at Huay rai bon CDC



Study Tour and Montessori clinic

Last week, the KLDF Montessori teacher staffs organized educational trip to Baan Huay rai bon CDC in Mae chan district, Chiangrai. The trip was to get the resident teachers observe, interact, motivate and learn more about other KLDF Montessori converted classrooms.

 

Discussion time



Later, we hosted a Montessori ideas sharing workshop –known as the Montessori clinic. There was opportunities for debriefing and ask questions moments which was quite energizing with creative ideas, discussions and own experiences were shared on both challenges and triumphs based on our classroom situations.

Eventually we emphasized on strengthening our relationships with parents and students to help establish workable problems solving in the classroom community.

   

Teachers from different KLDF Montessori classrooms