Montessori conference. London Museums

    Last weekend I attended a very interesting conference in London about ‘Challenging behavior and its management in a Montessori environment’. The conference was organized by ME ( Montessori Education ), with presentations by Dr Steven Hughes and Louise Livingston.

    The subject was naturally close to my heart as not only I work part time at a Montessori school, but three of my four children have diagnosis ( Autism, ADHD, and impressive speech difficulties)

    The conference was the theme for the trip to London, but I did manage to check out very quickly the Victoria and Albert museum as well as the Natural history museum.  At the Victoria and Albert museum myself and two of my colleagues managed to get screamed at by a security guard, who came running toward us  from across the hall shouting.

   ‘ Stop !’

    We had touched a stone well that was a ‘look-and-don’t-touch display’. Well, the Montessori environment is very tactile so it was only natural that we would touch something or another… we apologized and were more careful after that.

    A very quick little run around the Victoria and Albert during the lunch break, landed me right in front of a glass display featuring some panels embroidered by Mary queen of Scots. It was so neat to see in real life something I had read and studied about. There was plenty of other amazing needlework and antique clothing to inspect, but that will have to wait for another time….

    Those museums deserve a day or more to view thoroughly and I promised myself to make the time to return to London and explore with plenty of time to spare.

Victoria and Albet museum

First wing to the right from the main entrance

Museum of Natural history

I just had to take a very quick pic next to the most complete Stegosaurus fossil ever found.

So much to see.....

                                        

A busy week.....

    This has been a busy, interesting, and productive week.

    It's been two years since we moved to our new house, and it has taken me this long to decide, save for and finally order the furniture to set up my office.

   Now, having set up IKEA furniture before, I resigned myself to investing many an evening setting up the 10 pieces of furniture. But, thankfully my mother and daughter gave a hand and we had it all set up in record time.

   The next step is organising my supplies, materials, and projects. More on that later....

Emilie is the best when it comes to helping with screws and reading IKEA instructions

   When I am not busy working on Roland-designs and my other online projects I work at SFO ( After school care for children ),on thursday we had the visit of a geologist from www.geofreaks.no/ and he took us and the children for a little treasure hunt in our neighbourhood. The children were all very exited to find crystals, and so many of them.

   Here is a little photo of the first one I found, I think there will be more treasure hunts in the near futur.......

Crystals found in Holmestrand