Montessori in the News
AMONCO
Montessori Update #1
In This Issue:
Multicultural News
Students Create Bilingual Tourism Guide
Japanese Montessori Update
Pakistani School has Denver Roots
School Celebrates 25 Years of Montessori Learning
Transformation from Traditional Public to Montessori School Setting
A Special Type of Learning
Montessori and Music
Celebrating Montessori Education Week
Two More Montessori Training Offerings
Free Music and Art History Lessons
AMC Resource News
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Multicultural News
Students Create Bilingual Tourism Guide
Teacher Julienne Martinez recently demonstrated some extraordinary creative
lesson planning. Her students created an award winning elementary school
project which involved them in learning more about ways to protect the
environment while also strengthening their bilingual knowledge and cultural
appreciation. Teachers interested in using a bilingual approach will be
especially interested in reading
http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_ty
pe=news&article_path=/news/news011106_8.htm - Cortex students create
bilingual tourism guide For an interesting multicultural extension
lesson planning be sure to also read about Hands Across the Border
http://www.amonco.org/border1.html For additional Spanish materials visit
http://www.amonco.org/foreign_resources.html
Japanse Montessori Update -(For Our Japanese Montessori Audience)
If you live near the Marist Brothers International School in Kobe in Japan
and would like to learn more about their Montessori preschool read
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020210b2.htm
Kansai Who & What - for details about a special meeting for parents.
Pakistani School has Denver Roots
Read how Imtiaz Nawaz, who toured Colorado, ultimately used many
philosophies including an emphasis on the arts and a Montessori preschool to
create the Al Imtiaz Academy in
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_95
7_980970,00.html - Locals fund real dream: a Pakistani schoolhouse.
If you are interested in integrating multicultural learning into the
curriculum be sure to read the Spring/Summer 2001 Newsletter.
You'll find the following:
Resources to Help You Get Started
Links to Art, Music, Social Studies, Literature, & Languages
Resources
Links to Teaching Japanese, Korean and Chinese
Multicultural Cooking
Foreign Language Resources
Music and Musical Instruments - Internet Resources
Japanese Recipe Site
Complete Resource Information for Multicultural Lesson
Planning Information
Links to Actual Lesson Plans
Links to Japanese Montessori Schools
Map Projects and Activities
Recommended Reading Activities and Booklists
Just visit http://www.amonco.org/1summer_sup2001.html and
http://www.amonco.org/2summer_sup2001.html for this lesson planning
information.
Don't forget to bookmark the http://www.amonco.org/1fall_winter2001.html
Xmas Around the World Part I and http://www.amonco.org/1fall_winter2001.html
Part II (Later, during the summer months when you will be busy planning
your lessons for the 2002-2003 school year, you can refer to the site for
some multicultural holiday lesson planning.)
More Montessori School News
School Celebrates 25 Years of Montessori Learning
The Montessori tradition is alive and well at the
http://www.djournal.com/djournal/site/articles/news/896676.htm
Children's House Montessori School of Tupelo The Daily Journal article
gives an excellent synopsis of what Montessori education is supposed to
achieve. Many parents talk and share their successes with each other.
Undoubtedly, many have passed along the good news about this fine school.
The continual stream of students attending this facility for the past 25
years is a prime indication of just how much children at the Children's
House benefit from this integrated self-paced style of learning.
Transformation from Traditional Public to Montessori School Setting
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/13/SouthPinellas/Learning_on_the_loose.
shtml The article Southpinellas: Learning on the loose provides yet
another overview of Montessori schooling. This time the focus is on the
Pinellas County's first public Montessori program. Staff writer Kelly Ryan
Gilmer walks the reader through the basic tenets of Montessori education and
shows how three traditional classrooms at Gulfport Elementary School have been
transformed into Montessori learning environments.
A Special Type of Learning
In http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_95
7_932164,00.html Adventure in Learning - School Matches Special Talents
with Resources you'll learn how gifted students who experience problems
in certain academic areas are being helped. Students who were frustrated and
not achieving in traditional school settings are now flourishing in a
Montessori environment.
Montessori and Music
A Homemade Orchestra?
The Litchfield Country School now leads the way by creating a truly *hands on*
music curriculum for the students. Folk musician Thomasina has involved the
students in a series of unique, integrated art, music, and physical education
lessons. Point your browser here
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2843334&BRD=1644&PAG=461&dep
t_id=10660&rfi=6 to read the entire story. Find some
excellent music resources for your own school and home classrooms by
visiting http://www.amonco.org/music_resources.html
Celebrating Montessori Education Week
Last year's AMC chat guest Rosann Larrow once again is leading the way in
helping Montessorians make the most out of this special week. Learn more about
Montessori week (February 24 - March 2) by visiting
http://home.neo.rr.com/larrow/index.htm Montessori Education Week
Two More Montessori Training Offerings
The North American Progressive Montessori Teacher Training Program will be
offering an Infant Toddler training program sometime in the future. The
director anticipates that it will be offered by September 2002.
Those living in California will also want to contact the training center for
information about the California ECE Credit Program for teachers and
assistants. The projected date for program availability is July 2002. Visit
http://www.amonco.org/mont_training.html - Montessori Training
for additional Montessori correspondence training programs. programs.
Free Music and Art History Lessons
The Spring/Summer 2002 AMC Newsletter has now been uploaded. Receive free
music and art history lessons from the book Modern Montessori at Home II: A
Creative Teaching Guide for Parents of Children 10 through 12 Years of Age.
You'll also receive additional web resources where you can obtain some of the
resources to make some of these lessons yourself. Visit http://www.amonco.org
for details.
AMC Resource News
You'll find that 11 new organizations have been added to the resource
center. These organizations are introduced in Part I and Part II of the
AMC Spring/Summer newsletter.
A search by *topic* feature to the resource directory has also been added to
help you quickly locate resources. Visit
http://members.aol.com/AMCNEWS2/directory.html to see the entire listing
of resources now available.
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