by Abigail Miller | Mar 16, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, boules, bread baking, cuisine, Fungi, King Arthur Flour Company, yeast
Of all the genera in the Fungus kingdom, perhaps none is more beloved than Saccharmyces Cerevisiae, otherwise known as baker’s yeast. Today, the Children’s House was filled with the enticing fragrance of freshly baked bread as the children continued their...
by Abigail Miller | Mar 11, 2010 | biology, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, cusine, Fungi, life sciences, mushrooms, taxonomy
Our unit on Fungi continued this week with Mushroom Slicing, a twist on a classic Montessori Practical Life exercise. The children enjoyed carefully cleaning and slicing fresh Button Mushroom caps.Later, the children enjoyed a special treat of Spinach and Maitake...
by Abigail Miller | Mar 9, 2010 | biology, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Fungi, Fungi Perfecti, mushrooms, mycology, science, taxonomy
“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus; one morning, there they are, we know not how, and they gaze upon us morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only...