Taking Montessori Home
Taking Montessori Home, Fall 2009
Features “The Art of Observation”, an article from our Parent Information Series.
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Taking Montessori Home, Winter 2009
Features “Making Celebrations and Gift Giving Meaningful for You and Your Family”, an article from our Parent Information Series.
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Primary 1 Teacher Saachi Kumar recieves ‘Terrific Teacher’ Nomination
MSLF’s own Saachi Kumar has been nominated as one of North Shore’s ‘Terrific Teachers’. Online magazine makeitbetter.net has posted a full article here.
For the Love of Golf
Saturday, September 25, 2010
1:00 PM Golf - 6:00 PM Dinner
The Second Annual MSLF Golf Outing will bring together parents, alumni, faculty, staff, and businesses, while raising funds for the Montessori School of Lake Forest.
Registration includes 18 holes of golf with cart, contest holes, beer and soft drinks, dinner, prizes and giveaways. Space is limited to 100 golfers!
Golf Outing Letter
Registration Form
Executive Director Search
The MSLF Board has retained Triangle Associates as its consultant in a search for a new executive director for July 2011. Please visit the Executive Director Search page to view materials about the search and to keep informed about our progress.
MSLF Children Support the Owls
One year ago, one of the Montessori School of Lake Forest’s Primary classes, lead by Montessori trained teacher Monica Pearson (Lake Bluff), crafted a Great Horned Owl’s nest out of natural materials. Ms. Pearson’s 3, 4, and 5 year-old-students created the nest as their class contribution to MSLF’s Big Possibilities Benefit 2009. MSLF parent Jill London (Lake Forest), who works for Lake Forest Open Lands Association, visited the class to teach them about Great Horned Owls, which are native to this area of Illinois, and help them to build the nest. The students learned that since Great Horned Owls are “recyclers” they will move in to empty nests. The class constructed the nest by weaving grapevines together and sewing a lining made of natural fiber into the nest, as well as placing leaves in it to make a soft bed for baby owls. Once the nest was completed, the entire class and all their families watched an arborist from Care of Trees (Lake Forest) place the nest in a tree at the Lockhart Family Nature Center on Open Lands property in Lake Forest. One year later, this great experience of learning about owls and nature and conservation expanded to fulfill the children’s dreams: currently, a mother Great Horned Owl is nesting in the children’s nest, caring for two owlets.
Upper El Literary Winners
Congratulations Upper Elementary students Demi Glusic and Brede Baldwin on their winning entries in Cook Memorial Library district’s 4th annual creative writing contest.
As winners their poems will appear in Cook Library’s first literary magazine.
The Adventurous Journey by Brede Baldwin
When the Rain Comes by Demi Glusic
Enjoy!
Harvard Business Review: Innovators and Montessori
A recent article in HBR discussed innovative entrepreneurs vs average executives. Towards the end, it mentions a connection between several successful innovators and Montessori education!
Here is that last paragraph and then the link to the full article.
“We also believe that the most innovative entrepreneurs were very lucky to have been raised in an atmosphere where inquisitiveness was encouraged. We were stuck by the stories they told about being sustained by people who cared about experimentation and exploration. Sometimes these people were relatives, but sometimes they were neighbors, teachers or other influential adults. A number of the innovative entrepreneurs also went to Montessori schools, where they learned to follow their curiosity. To paraphrase the famous Apple ad campaign, innovators not only learned early on to think different, they act different (and even talk different).”