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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, other things we did in Montessori:

1. Learn how to be "hosts" -- greet people at the door when they come to the classroom, give them a tour, offer them a snack, serve our classmates with kindness, and thank them when they serve us [I have no idea if this is part of the M curriculum, but it seems that my DD, age 5 who's been in M since 3, is learning this, too.]

2. Learn about birds and bees -- I think sometime in the equivalent of Grade 1 or 2 we read "How Babies are Made" and learned about plant and animal reproduction.  The basics.

3. Dissection -- we did this ourselves, under the supervision of teachers and aides. Started with plants and progressed to a frog.  Careful observation, drawings, that kind of thing.

4. Society and Community Issues -- we took on projects like World Hunger and Community Health. Sounds lofty, doesn't it.  Well, one of the parents was an Anthropologist and she spearheaded some community activism.  We did things like read newsletters, fund raise, look at maps for geographic context, read profiles of children from various backgrounds, that sort of thing.

5. Take responsibility for our own learning. Every day we had to write a "contract" listing the three or four activities we wanted to do that day.  We'd present it to the teacher who would add two or three more, and maybe even cross out one of ours, to ensure we were getting a balance of content and process in over the days and weeks.

6. Mentor and be mentored.  Classrooms were multi-age, multi-grade.  Kids were up to two or three years different in age in each classroom. Same holds true for my DD's class.  She started thre at 3 and will be going there throuh K: all kids in the same classroom.  This means that as you grow up, you have the opportunity to mentor the younger kids coming up.[/quote]

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