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Welcome Change


Change is good.  We hear that often. We often resist change.  This is just futile in so many ways.  Change is inevitable and constant, so when we resist it we set ourselves up for frustration and discord.


I usually welcome each season. I am ready for change by the time one season has been around for a while.  I guess I am a good 'midwesterner' in that way.  I would have a hard time, I think, living in a constant state of summer or winter.  


Change is always with us.  It is a constant. Nothing stays the same for long. We grow, change, and are affected by our surroundings.  This in it's self is good and bad--comforting and problematic--trustworthy and fickle.  Now that you are confused, let me explain.  


Change as good & bad: 
it can be good because it keeps things interesting; it can be bad because, just when we get good at something, we need to move on to something else.


Change as comforting & problematic:
it is comforting to know what will happen and be able to get ready for the change.  It is difficult to be faced with change we are not ready for or a change we just do not want (like a death in the family).


Change as trustworthy & fickle:
So many things that change regularly can be counted on, like basic child development, and the weather and colors of a season.  On those same topics, change is also fickle in that each child develops on their own schedule and weather can be extreme and unpredictable.


MONTESSORI


The Montessori classroom is both very stable and reliable and at the same time constantly changing to meet the needs of the students in that particular room.  


The stability of certain materials like the Pink Tower and Dressing Frames always being present can be comforting the child that needs a high degree of consistency.


Change is also great. Updating your room for the seasons and meeting the needs of all the children keep our classrooms fresh and interesting.  


This time of year is so fun in the classroom.  As October draws near the new children are getting used to being away from mom and dad.  The second year children are realizing that they can 'help' the new children, and the third year students are starting to really 'take off' with projects in geography and science.  

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