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The Montessorian Revolution

Never say yes when your heart says no Tengiz Abuladze.

Enchanted Learning with its colour and focus guarantees absorption for these

young students


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and today Mirza, our sports teacherwho has a keen interest in Englishis

giving us a hand.


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These Harry Potter-ish words,

familiar fromEnglish World,

seem a great stimulus to the

imagination.


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with new words like caraveland half-known ones likesubmarine andsailboat

posing no realproblem

intensercolouring showing an intense focus on the learning opportunity to

hand


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with Mirza providing watchful, avuncular support.


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Next off, we are looking at

sentences with ing. Thats

the brown circle: the idea is

to land on white for

am/is/are and use orange as

your jumping-off point


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Iamjumping getting this right is great fun!... Jumping a sentence is the

bodily internalization of structure.

Nowthe exercise at the board


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various examples ofingwhich we are practicing our loud


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.and closely examining.


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Someone cant quite spell good so I am advising


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right, thats theing, OK


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Now two of them are collaborating on these action words


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Followed by a well-earnedperiod of relaxation.


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While (in the next lesson) these two are delighted with (and approve of!) the whole

process of learning


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which they know deep down is not achieved without sweat and toil.

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Day 2 of the Montessorian Revolution, and these children look a tough

challenge


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but the girls see what Im aiming at


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Finally the touchpaper is lit and we are miming some street directions.girls in

full cry


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lesson mercifully soon over; Nana not realizing what a triumph Ive had!


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These young boys are so keen to get me to the next lesson! They will insist on

dragging me up, while pulling me down, the stairsThats Georgia in a

nutshell!


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But they take a sedate pace once we have climbed the stairs! (Nana meanwhile has

words with some of the previous class!)


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They dispatch the word and colouring work in no time at all


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details all correctly understood


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unknown words safely negotiated


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results published to the world


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acquired knowledge noted


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and approval and praise sought.

Heres ten words all beginning withF, maybe half of which were new


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Mine are just as good!


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but thats enough of that!


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time for a different kind of energy and concentration


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but where has the shuttle gone?


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crazy table tennis without tables


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while others are carefully completing further, even more interesting, Enchanted

Learning worksheets!


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and others tryingSnakes and Ladders.


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Here, Class VII is having a break from textbooks and veering between

worksheets


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and a quite difficultbilingual article from the Magti magazine. Theyve

had enough ofTopscore 1and it isthe last week of term


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Others take a chance to go online and boost my Luminosity scores (cognitive

games are also a great component!)


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Now that childhood staple, Lego, can be brought into play.


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(Im setting no complex intellectual or grammatical tasks this time, I just want a

house!)


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But I have misjudged the degree of interest Giso has in our recent theatre trip.

Zero!

So I steer him to Lego, and a friend. Its good for him to socialize, even remotely,

as here. Meanwhile note the multitasking!


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Three-part counterpointwith a very energetic Alto part


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and a sedate Treble


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With Miranda up to something on her own!

Nana polishes long-forgotten tennis skills


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while the Finnish Modernist Aalto


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provides a lucid and ludic post-modernist critique of the Georgian legend.


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By now, Im optimistic that on Day 3, well continue our revolution in yellow and

green areas ofCsiszentmihalyis chart.


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and so it turns out. ABC! What could be more ludic, symbolic and profound

than that?


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DEF! This is clearly an ongoing mission


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Nato check the students work from an unusual angle

with the students keen to follow suit.


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Heres a typical Georgian situation: pomposity, laid-back charm, irreverence and

shabby infrastructure instretto

while at last we have relaxed the rules and let the students outside into the fresh

air. Which will do them good!


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.meanwhile a pre-school child has come to say hello


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shell be here next year, in all likelihood.


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Ecole de Paris ?! The architects have moved into three dimensions!


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with other are keen to appear on camera in walk-on parts before the summer

holidays begin


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I will take the article home to read!


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Le Corbuiser is happy to show off the letter G from all angles.


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We have some expert tennis players in the last class of the morning


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showing textbooktechnique

and some power!


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just making a shot here


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while others, less boisterous, are also drawn to the Lego.


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Snakes and Ladders allows some practice of counting.


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and the work of earlier ludic classes reminds us of the distance we have come

since post-Futurism was de rigueur.


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The girls find most interest not in pure construction but in creating fantasy

characters from the bricks


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some definite if obscurefairytale drama going on here


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Whilesome hidden gold there! Giorgi joins in, in his own time and his own

way. The genius is within!


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This is what he has achieved; and it is indeed marvelous, though few adults would

see its great details, harmony and charm!


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How often a difficult rhyme creates a beautiful thought! Thanks, Giorgi, for

symbolizing our Montessorian Revolution!


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Bolnisi Third SchoolSummer 2013


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