Ava Wanas Montessori: First Week of School

September 7, 2012

First Week of School

This very first week of school was more wonderful than we could have asked for. The children are falling back into the rhythm of the classroom seamlessly, and our new students are adjusting so well. Our classrooms this year have a very calm, warm energy and we are so thankful for that.

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”

Maria Montessori