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 | Apr 14, 2010 | annelids, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, earth sciences, Longmont Preschool, vermicomposting, worms
“It may be doubted whether there are any other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.” – Charles Darwin, 1881Montessori guides consider a presentation to have been a...