To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. - Maria Montessori
I’m Anne, and I’m a Montessori preschool teacher in the mountains of Montana. I’ve been a Montana girl for my whole life, and I love everything about living here - mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, deep snow, wildlife, and honest, friendly people. I am blessed!
I truly believe that your work in life should be meaningful, and that you should give back rather than take. Teaching fits the bill for me AND provides an outlet for my creativity. Plus, there is nothing quite like spending your day in the company of joyful little people!
Itty bitty love gets its name from the sensitive period in a child’s development for being facinated with little things and tiny details. “When a particular sensitiveness is aroused in a child, it is like a light that shines on some objects but not on others, making of them his whole world.” {Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood} Montessori believed that this sensitivity for small objects spanned a child’s first to fourth year of life. For some reason, MY sensitive period for little things has been going strong for 28 years! Small objects in the Montessori classroom include the littlest cube of the pink tower, tiny objects in the drawers of the alphabet box, and even that little spec of a spider scurrying across the floor.
In the winter we ski, in the summer we hike. We also enjoy working on our nearly 130 year old house - I like to garden, Hubs likes to build things. Oh yeah, and we are very good at sitting on the couch, reading magazines and playing on the internet. We are not parents yet, but we do take pride in our hairy, little dog, Rosie.
I started writing this blog a few years ago simply as a way to keep track of all the fun things I was doing at school and at home - I never expected to find so much inspiration from my readers and other blogs! I feel so lucky to be part of such a great network of creative people. Thanks for stopping by - I hope you come back soon!
