Grace: “Shandre and I were looking in a book today and there was a picture of a scroll and we decided to make one. Chloe gave us paper, and we got sticks from outside, and we painted the paper and glued the sticks onto the paper, and we made a scroll.”

In so many ways that seems to capture some of the essence of junior primary Montessori – pick up a thread of interest, follow it, learn, create, pick up a thread of interest…

Chopping things is dangerous work – requires hard hats