Leadership in the classroom

Working with the “Peaceful People” lesson from the Peace curriculum

In a multi age Montessori classroom, there are many advantages for students to learn from each other. Our preschoolers and pre-kindergarten students have ample opportunities to learn from the Kindergartners, and our Kindergartners get to share their knowledge and experience with their younger peers. All of this interactions help solidify the relationships between the students and it helps foster independence in everyone.

We are studying the continent of South America this month and are focused on the four layers of a rain forest.

We discovered a wonderful way for our students to interact with the curriculum theme, by positioning a large wall lesson and then having the students color, cut and then tape specific animals on the wall. We started with the coral reef in February then dinosaurs in March and now we have animals of the rain forest. This becomes a wonderful visual reference for all of us and gives students ample opportunities to interact with themes in a hands-on manner.