by Abigail Miller | Apr 17, 2010 | Alfie Kohn, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, classroom management, discipline, Kohn's Law, Longmont Preschool, punishments and rewards
Yesterday, we went to hear Alfie Kohn speak at the Montessori Centre Internationale (Denver, CO). It is always a pleasure to go to events like this, where you find yourself surrounded by like minded people and listening to a speaker you find intelligent and thought...
by Abigail Miller | Apr 16, 2010 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, crustaceans, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, taxonomy
For weeks, the children have been joyfully searching for small insects in the yard; so, I knew that the upcoming unit on arthropods would interest them. The children began their unit on arthropods by reading the books What is an Arthropod? by Bobbie Kalman and Under...
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...
by Abigail Miller | Apr 4, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Boulder Photography, commercial photography, Longmont Preschool, Mark Quentin, School Pictures, Studio Q Photography, Studio Q Photography LLC
School Pictures for the 2009-2010 School Year will be taken on Tuesday, April 27th at 10:00am!We would really like to have everyone included in the group photo (we think it will be a nice keepsake for the children and hope to have all of their friends included). As a...
by Abigail Miller | Apr 4, 2010 | annelids, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, taxonomy, vermicomposting
“These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into: (a) those that...
by Abigail Miller | Apr 1, 2010 | April Fool's Day, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Longmont Preschool
“What do worms eat?””Dirt””Have you ever wondered what dirt tastes like?””Yucky””Are you sure? Hmmmm…. maybe I will try a little and describe it to you…. (take a bite of “dirt” out of a...
