Homework

Doing a bit of research on the type of thing that is being looked at in terms of Montessori atm, and have come across a couple of books I need to read, so dropping some links here so that I can find them 🙂

Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius looks particularly interesting, if a little American. Research lining up how Montessori fits with pyschological understanding of children’s development (if I’m reading the blurb right).

Gifted and Talented in the Early Years: Practical Activities for Children Aged 3 to 5 – I’ve taken on the Lead teacher for gifted and talented role (hence the long conversation with an NAGC adviser yesterday – turns out that she is a trained Montessori teacher who ran her own nursery so there was plenty of common ground for discussion 🙂 ) so I need to do a bit of research and write up a policy for the handbook.

On a more personal level, I’m wondering whether Aspiring Author’s Journal and The Aspiring Artist’s Journal might be good indulgences for the offspring – Small’s art is going from strength to strength and I’d really like to inspire Big to do more writing as she’s very much enjoyed it when she has. Anyone any experiences with either of them they’d like to share? I’m wondering whether a journal might be a bit much for Small given he’s not reading yet, and whether something like this, You Can Paint Like Van Gogh: A Complete Kit for Aspiring Artists with Other and Paint Brush and Paint and Booklet (Artist in a Can) might be more suitable. Decisions, decisions (I’m still trying to spend the £16 I got through doing surveys, you’d have thought that would be easy, wouldn’t you?