Teaching children foundational sport-specific skill sets through story-telling and character-based games is a highly effective approach to breaking down fundamental physical skills for younger students.
Participants will be equipped with a brand-new repertoire of activities, games and teaching methodologies for children in Physical Education classes. This course features a Montessori guide with decades of in-class experience who will provide a novel approach to your physical education curriculum.
Date: November 17th, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Tall Pines Montessori School, 8525 Torbram Road, Brampton, ON
“Only poets and little children can feel the fascination of a tiny rivulet of water flowing over pebbles.”
– Maria Montessori
As educators and earthlings, we know that intimate reconnection with nature is necessary for our happiness and survival. Perhaps we are all poets at heart. This workshop reveals some of the linguistic, mathematical, biological, cultural, and especially – sensorial delights of nature immersion. We will explore ways of perceiving how:
This sensorial journey into the collective wisdom of nature will focus on observation and personal experience to invigorate curricular themes and hopefully, will inspire us all to give practical resonance to Montessori’s words …
“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their
shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run
on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath
its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.” – Maria Montessori
Dr. Wendy Agnew has been facilitating Montessori workshops in Cosmic Creativity and Nature Based Learning in three continents over three decades. Please dress for comfort (rain or shine) and bring water, a blanket or tarp, and a litter free lunch/snack.
Links:
https://www.sustainabilityfrontiers.ca/
Date: June 2025
Location: Heart Lake Conservation Area; 10818 Heart Lake Rd
Brampton, ON L6Z 0B3
Cost: $55 per person