Oneness and Separetness

Great Book. Closely observed and beautifully written, Oneness and Separetness is a study of the inner emotions and experiences of a child’s earliest life. Louise Kaplan explores the journey each baby makes from oneness with his mother to a “secound birth” as a unique psychological being who begins to comprehend the difference between “I” and “You”, “mine” and “yours”.

Baking bread with your child

With children you can do lovely things such as ‘baking bread’

It’s very simple and a lot of fun.For children under three year it is best when all the ingredients are pre-measured and put in little plastic beakers. It facilitates the pouring into the larger bowl. With older children, you can measure with them.

Ideal is to have all prepared on a little table, so any action the child will do is easy for them.

The following ingredients are needed:

• 1 kg flour (i.e. whole grain)
• 130 ml of warm water
• One cube of yeast
• One teaspoon of salt
• One tablespoonful of sugar
• Two tablespoonful of oil (i.e. sunflower oil)

And that’s how it’s done:

Ingredients: flour, oil, yeast, salt, sugar, warm water

All ingredients are purred into a large bowl.

Mix it well.

Cover the bowl with a large cloth and let rest for at least one hour.

After you put it in the oven for one hour…DONE!

Quote by M. Montessori

Dr. Montessori warned us, not to give ideas for imagination, facts should be first.

They first have to be able to distinguish fantasy from facts.

The child can create from facts, attained through making use of his intelligence.

It is through imagination, that the child is able to explore what he cannot touch.

Quote by Dr. Montessori

Dr. Montessori said:

“At a certain moment, the children understand better with their feelings than their intellect”.

The Fourth Plane 18 – 24 – ‘Maturity’

MATURITY (18 – 24)
Providing that all has gone well before, this becomes the time when the individual develops the spiritual strength and independence for his or her personal mission in life.

This individual becomes a human being who has attained a high level of moral conscience and responsibility, and can work for the good of humanity.

Thus the developmental life of a human being is a sequence of births.

An earlier plane always prepares the one that follows, forms its basis, and nurtures the energies, which urge the individual towards the succeeding period of life. If the child is allowed to unfold according to its natural development, and is provided with the right environment, he/she can offer his/her gifts to the rest of humanity

Self Construction

The vision is…

To help the child with its unique potenti

The adult (teacher) should help the child to realize what the human species has accomplished. The adult has the role of heling the child to “make himself” and the construction of his/her independence. The child needs and wants help so that he/she can think for him/herself.

“Help me to think for myself”

Two things are necessary for the formation of people

1.Participation of the individual life

2. Participation of the social life

“We are service to the force – we’re serving the force of the child, giving them the opportunity to make choices, with the help of the force of the adult (teacher), providing the environment needed.”

Check out this site on “Environment”

http://educationaljournal.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/environment/

Quote by M. Montessori on “Self Construction”

M.M. said

“You cannot make a man good or bad, you can help, but he has to make it himself.”

Check out this link:

http://educationaljournal.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/cosmic-education-2/

The Montessori Rap

Really funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_LeuHsFUg

Cosmic Education II

“Reasoning keeps things in their relation to one another, compares them, deduces from them, arrives at conclusions and when the conclusions have been arrived at, there is a state of psychic satisfaction and with this is a sense of calm and respose.”

Quote by Dr. M. Montessori

Dr. Montessori talked about…

The children need to be able to imagine for themselves and reflect on these ideas. It is only in introducing the children to the universe in this way, that we are making use of the psychological characteristics in the second plane of development.