Animals of Raintree

2023-06-10T16:42:44-05:00January 26th, 2023|Categories: Early Childhood, Raintree|Tags: , , , , |

The longer I work at Raintree, the more I wonder about the stories that collect around these fourteen acres of land.  The tales that are told with the most joy and humor are those of the animals.  Some are woven into the Raintree quilt, the earliest threads of the school story.  Some are retold at staff gatherings or parent/teacher conferences.  All are cherished memories that remind us of our responsibility to the small and delicate life around us. The chickens are visited daily by children, [...]

Freedom with Responsibility: from the classroom to your home.

2021-04-14T16:18:20-05:00February 14th, 2021|Categories: Montessori, Parenting|Tags: , , , , |

by Jennifer Baker Powers One of the first things a child learns upon entering a Montessori classroom is the unspoken relationship between freedom and responsibility, or as Maria Montessori called it “liberty.” In 1964, she wrote “discipline must come through liberty” and “when he [the child] is master of himself and can therefore regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life”. In the Montessori classroom, the child quickly comes to know certain benign boundaries to this freedom such [...]

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