My daughter's bored in Montessori at the moment - to be honest all this year - htey never really made an effort to design a second year curriculum for the ones who' been there longer. I realised yesterday that I'm pretty much just letting it go - I found myself thinking, 'well, at least it's only til June'.
I read that as you get older, from the age of about 18, you stop producing melatonin at the same rate, and one of its jobs is to regulate the sensation of hte passing of time. I certainly recognise that once I hit college, time just started going so fast - and now? Well, now I'm suddenly 31, need I say more? So June is a sneeze away for me.
But my daughter is four and a half. So every day is a week for her. Remember how long it was in school, waiting for the last two minutes before the bell went? Now I'm a teacher, and trying to cram your plan into a 40 minute class is impossible, it flies by - yet at the same time, my bored students sit there, wishing for release, as the clock goes tick...tock, and the seconds are leaden.
And that's secondary school. Remember being four? Christmas is a different country. For parents it seems to come round twice ayear, but when you're small... day after day of boring, repetitive Montessori work til June must seem like a life time. I'm not sure what to do? I've talked to the teacher, she basically doesn't have time, as she has other younger kids in the class. When they opened last year, there were three dedicated Montessori teachers in the room, now there's one, and a helper who has no Montessori trainging, and calls it 'creche'. Yet the price has gone up... hmm. There are still lots of other perks, but I don't know if they make up for the hour of tick...tock...tick... tock she's experiencing most days.
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