spontaneous explosion

Dr Maria Montessori wrote of the 'explosion' into literacy. I've witnessed this happen to children in the classroom before, always with a feeling of great happiness and pleasure for the child undergoing this mind opening and life altering experience.

But oh my, what a wonderful feeling it is to witness it arrive in your own child. I'm just delighted to see my sweet clever little boy writing and finging his little messages popping up around the house. These were found all in one day!

Copied from the movie case.

The main ideas behind the teaching of Language:  The lovely clear explanation below is from the Montessori School of Orlando.

 When Dr. Montessori founded the first House of Children, it was the seemingly spontaneous explosion into writing and reading that first caught the world’s attention. Dr. Montessori was heralded as a genius who had “invented” a new way of teaching children how to write and read at an age when children were thought incapable of receiving instruction. Dr. Montessori had facilitated the process, but the manner in which children learnt to write and read (in that order) was demonstrated to Dr. Montessori by the children themselves.

Letter to Flossy (FLOC), Sam, Banjo (BAGO), and Spice (SPIS).  Shame it was on one of Greg's business envelopes!

Dr. Montessori observed that children learn how to speak without being taught at an age when they are thought incapable of instruction. The Montessori Method imitates the same process on the level of writing and reading. The general pattern of the learning of language follows a definite plan: firstly, there is the slow gathering of material and the painstaking acquisition of skill; secondly, there is the consolidation of that material and skill characterized by greater and greater proficiency; thirdly, there is the explosion into writing and then reading usually triggered by some stimulus in the environment.

jelly on a plate  - food on the brain?

Did you notice that the xray is of a skeleton (SCALTN)?

Children are presented with a series of exercises that develop the physical skill required for writing and reading at the same time that they are presented with a series of exercises to develop the intellectual ability to handle, sounds, words and sentences. At some point in their development, the skills and knowledge coalesce to generate a sudden and explosive growth into writing and reading. After the explosion into writing and reading, they consolidate their development further by applying themselves to an extended study of the manner in which words and sentences are constructed in their language.

And this was written while Greg and Tigs were at the phone shop. Do you know what it says?

Scroll down for the translation!

Can I have a icypole?