by Abigail Miller | May 20, 2010 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, earth sciences, Longmont Preschool, taxonomy
“The new woman, like the butterfly come forth from the chrysalis, shall be liberated from all those attributes which once made her desirable to man only as the source of material blessings of existence. She shall be, like man, an individual, a free human being,...
by Abigail Miller | May 17, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Fred Bustamante Wood Products, hammering nails into a tree stump, Longmont Preschool, Practical Life materials
“No man learns self-discipline through hearing another man speak. The phenomenon of discipline needs as a preparation a series of complete actions, such as are presupposed in the genuine application of a really educative method. Discipline is reached always by...
by Abigail Miller | May 17, 2010 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, earth sciences, Longmont Preschool, Painted Lady butterflies, taxonomy
“Now let us imagine a man appointed to a chair of science in some university, with the task before him of doing further original work with the hymenoptera. Let us suppose that, arrived at his post, he is shown a glass covered case containing a number of...
by Abigail Miller | May 13, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, food cultivation, gardening, Longmont Preschool, Spring
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”-E.E. Cummings, In Just-After two days of frost, drizzle, and even a light dusting of snow, the storm finally cleared enough for us to don our Wellies and resume our Spring planting. Needless to say, there...
by Abigail Miller | May 10, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Farm to School Program, food cultivation, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity....
