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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, you lost me when you essentially said one of your kids didn't fit into play-based preschool (not daycare, despite what you repeatedly said) because he's smart.

Also, circle time is all of 15 minutes. You act as though it's the whole day. It's not a problem to ask kids to sit still for 15 minutes while they do some circle time activities.

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Sorry, I didn't see the response.

I didn't say he didn't fit because he was smart.  He didn't fit because he was fast.  He would go through the lesson and he would want to do something else, but he had to sit with the group while they continued with the project.  Like one time they were making letters out of clay.  He did several letters while some of the kids were working on the first one.  He was done and wanted to do something else, but the teachers kept him at the table and essentially wanted him to sit there waiting for the other kids.  It wasn't so much that he was smart--he was doing the same letters as the other kids, but he just finished the project faster than other kids.  And then got bored.

For the other twin, the issue of circle time was an example.  The problem was that this twin hated to be interrupted and wanted to finish what he was doing before moving on, but in the play-based school, they had all the kids doing the same thing.

In both of their cases, we went to Montessori because it was self-guided learning.  The style of learning where the student has control over how long and how much to work with any project suited both of our high energy kids.  The one that was fast, was able to do more projects and was given freedom between projects to wander the room or go to the snack table, even look out the window, etc as long as he didn't distract the other students and as long as he got one project from each learning section completed during the session.  He was able to control what he did instead of having to follow a curriculum and schedule that suited other students, but didn't suit him.  And the second twin was likewise able to control his own time and didn't have to have the schedule dictated to him.

Montessori works well for children of many types who want to control their own learning process.  On the other hand, children who need more structure and guidance will not do nearly as well.[/quote]

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