by Abigail Miller | Aug 3, 2011 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Broomfield Montessori, Butterfly Pavilion, Erie Montessori, life sciences, Longmont Montessori, Longmont Preschool, science, Summer, taxonomy
This afternoon, the children were treated to one of the highlights of our summer arthropod unit, a visit from the Butterfly Pavilion. The Butterfly Pavilion has the distinction of being the nation’s first stand alone non-profit invertebrate zoo. It features more...
by Abigail Miller | Aug 24, 2010 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, food cultivation, Food Preparation, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, pollinators
This past week, the children discovered this little character living amongst the zucchini in our garden (perhaps this is one of the little praying mantis’s we hatched and released at the beginning of the summer?). Our animated guest was a good sport; he spent...
by Abigail Miller | Aug 3, 2010 | arthropods, beekeeping, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, Children's Peace Garden, Growing Gardens, honeybees, life sciences, Longmont Preschool
“On an open lot, there’s a garden patch grown by children who live in the neighborhood.A sign on the garden’s gate says Children’s Garden Welcome!That means: Come in, please. Listen, see, smell, touch- even taste.”-In the Children’s...
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 | 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 1, 2010 | arthropods, biology, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, Montessori materials, taxonomy
After repeated trips to the garden to hunt for arthropods in the leaf litter and our visit from the University of Colorado “Bug Mobile,” the students have been very interested in the independent classroom works about Arthropods. Sorting Arthropods into...
