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Wildflower Montessori School

We are a classroom of Montessori learners and educators. Wildflower Montessori School is the first Wildflower School, an innovative approach to Montessori education started by the Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab. We follow the nine principles of the Wildflower Network.

We serve children ages 2.9 - 6 years old.

 

In our classroom, children engage in purposeful work with real tools.  Tasks such as preparing snack, caring for plants, or sanding a wooden chair require child-sized glassware and utensils, gardening gloves, and sandpaper.  By providing the necessary tools and instructions, children are no longer excluded from participation in activities that were once seen as adult work.  This ability to contribute in a real way to the world resonates deeply with children.  They feel an authentic sense of importance and purpose, whether it be from baking bread for snack, setting the lunch table, creating flower arrangements for the classroom, scrubbing the table after painting, or deadheading a plant to allow for new growth.