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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also kids who are less physical.  Montessori is not great for high energy kids.  Not surprisingly, boys are disproportionately booted out of Montessori programs.  [/quote]

Our experience has been the opposite. My very energetic, active boy did not do well in a play-based program because he didn't like being interrupted in what he was working on because now it was art time, or circle time, or whatever. He liked to work at his own speed and keep working on the thing he was interested in, and he could also move about the classroom to choose his work. So Montessori has been a good fit for him.[/quote]

PP with twins. When we did our classroom observation a few months ago, I noticed one benefit for the antsy, energetic kid.  When they had to go and get a project, some of the kids would go and get the project in 1 trip, others would take 3-5 trips.  One child did a stack of building blocks that you had to stack in order from largest to smallest and he got 8 blocks in...8 trips, one block at a time.  The teachers just watched him and as long as he didn't interrupt the other kids working at their stations, they let him go.  They did redirect him from just stopping randomly around the room and encouraged him to keep working on his project.  The only important thing was that they had to complete one project in each of six categories within the 2.5  hour period.  There was a lot of flexibility and independent control for the kid in how they accomplished this including incorporating a lot of physical movement for the child that needs to work out more energy.  It's not climbing and running, but still and outlet for energy.[/quote]

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