Revised Letter..... by Sandy Wade

I talked to the former teacher of my classroom for an hour on the phone today.  Miss Patrice is an incredibly sweet, understanding woman with whom I am very lucky to be able to work with.  We have decided, together,

Being Authentic in a Non-Montessori Classroom

Hello everyone! I'm a good friend of Sandy and I'm lucky enough to be contributing to this blog. I'm so glad she set this up because I've wanted to blog for a long time. I've had a few rough starts but it never took off. Now maybe since a group of us will be working on it, I won't be so hard on myself if I don't post anything for a while.

On to introductions. I've been teaching for about 3 1/2 years in a non-Montessori environment. One year I was a full time tutor in a school, one year I taught kindergarten,  half a year I taught second grade, and last year I taught first grade. So I've been bouncing around everywhere. Some of those changes were upgrades and some were shifts because of budget issues. So here I am. I've been teaching for a year in the school I'm in now and have been working on getting my Masters in Lower Elementary Montessori.

My letter

So here is the letter that I came up with.  Really I took a few of the letters from other teachers in my school, took a few suggestions from some friends of mine, and this is what I got.    We'll see how it goes through the year.

Hi, my name is Sandy Wade, and I'm about to embark on my journey as a Lower Elementary Montessori teacher.  I'm writing this blog for two reasons:  1)  I am trying to get my thoughts sorted out.  Setting up the Montessori classroom is one of the most intimidating things I think I have ever had to tackle.