Montessori in the Classroom by Paula Polk Lillard

Author:Paula Polk Lillard [Lillard, Paula Polk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82947-4
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

November 29 Sandy and Susie were having a great time with the Marker Paper. Susie made “cat,” then came back for “hat.” “I’m making a rhyming book,” she said. Emily asked again about the Marker Paper. She had even made a “book” of picture pages at home. She only knows a dozen letter sounds. What will she get out of doing this work? Worse, won’t she just be tying up materials another child is really ready to benefit from? I realize now that I felt a little testy with her over her desire to do this yesterday and again today. Surely I should be happy that she has such persistence and motivation, not be irritated by it. I’ll let her do the Marker Paper tomorrow. If she learns little from it, she will soon give it up. (We had been working almost daily with Emily on the Sandpaper Letters. We had found that not only did she appear not to understand the connection between sound and symbol, she also was having trouble imitating sounds that we made for her, and seemed to have a minimal auditory memory. Emily was so strongly motivated to do what the other children were doing, particularly Sandy, that in spite of her slow language development, I had introduced her to the Movable Alphabet and the Phonetic Objects by this time. When I gave her a word in the Movable Alphabet work, she would ask the other child doing this work to find the letter she needed. She asked another child for help with the Phonetic Objects as well.)

The reading is coming fast now for many children. Sam read his Super Book story to Joan without hesitation today. Linda read several to herself in the library. What a shame that we have only these inane books to give to children. “An apple ran.” [The illustration shows an apple with sticks on it.] “It ran and ran. Nan ran. Dan ran,” etc. Why not a book about Bach or South America or trees with photographs or good illustrations and phonetically worded text? Something worth reading!

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