School for the Liberal Elite

Don't know whether I mentioned this, but the Montessori school called and finally had an opening for Lucy. We went in for another visit and were again really impressed with the facility (little kid-sized everything right down to the toilet) and the staff (all Montessori-trained and really good with the kids from what we can tell). Sharon took Lucy in for a couple of sessions to ease her in, but it looks like we wouldn't even have needed to do that. Lucy is in love with the place-limitless little constructive toys, activities, and crafts to keep her engaged-she doesn't want to leave the place. The more we've learned about it, the more we are psyched up about the Montessori philosophy-letting kids explore at their own pace, where their interests take them. Needless to say, we're really excited about when she starts, which will be Friday the 1st of April.

One funny thing that happened there yesterday. Understand-there's near-limitless funny things that happen with respect to The Girl, almost none of which I ever relate (to my own discredit). Anyway, this is not necessarily any more funny than anything else, but is just something I happen to be thinking of at the moment. The kids had just finished having a snack on their little plates, sitting on their little chairs. Lucy said, "all done!" and got up. Being a good girl, she pushed in her chair and started to walk away. She then noticed a little piece of something on the floor, and picked it up. Not sure exactly what to do with it, she put it on the plate of the little girl next to her, then walked off. Apparently, the instructor and Sharon both got a chuckle from that.