Welcome to the inaugural Montessori Beginnings School blog...
...I’m Kathy Raymond—head of school by day, Discovery TV fanatic by night…teacher, mother, wife, sister, friend, gardener, lover of music, the occasional Double-Stuf Oreo eater and oh, I will be your humble blogger for the duration of this blog:) Welcome to my corner!
There are many exciting things in our future… The school is truly living up to its name: “Beginnings”. As of this week, we have a new blog, website, fund raising site and set of goals.
Our website is a wonderful tool and resource for current and prospective families. We are proud to display both current and past MBS students in all of our site pictures, in addition to great info and links about our wonderful little school community. We've even added (hold your breaths and wait for the drum roll) pdf's of all relevant documents for both current and future MBS families.
Our blog will hopefully educate and entertain those who read it—sharing musings, observations, ideas and more. But it’s not all one sided… Montessori Beginnings “begins” (see what I did there?) with you, so I encourage your feedback as well. Just click on the comment icon below and share:)
Our fund raising site, through “GoFundMe.com” provides unlimited potential to help raise needed funds geared for our (soon to be) Nature Explore certified classroom and playground. What an ideal opportunity to invest in education and community, don’t you think? Feel free to check out the Nature Explore website at www.natureexplore.org and browse all the information and research illustrating how essential it is for children to connect with nature. This is a perfect partnership to have since the Montessori philosophy also extols the virtue of respecting and connecting with nature and the universe:).
Well, there you have it folks, my very first blog entry. Thanks for stopping by my corner and having a read. I will be posting relevant MBS news and happenings a few times a month, so come back and visit every now and again. We even have “the corner” synced up with our Facebook page (fancy right?) for maximum viewing enjoyment. But before I sign off, I leave you with Dr. Montessori’s own words from her book, The Secret of Childhood.
“Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.”
Peace,
Kathy