Jayeeta Majumdar Singhee

Last Saturday was Observation day for Ishaan’s parents. In a Montessori school that means Ishaan’s dad and mom get to watch him showing some of the things he has learnt at school. Ishaan as usual started with his favourite “belic tiles”…where he closes his eyes and pairs tiles after touching them.

He then went on to show me some pretty complex and long activities, like dinomial squares and the map of Asia. He knew most of the countries in Asia, some of them….mmm, dismal as it sounds, his mom and dad didn’t know :-p. Just so that you know, he knows all his continents :).

But the most important of them all came last. “Movable Alphabets”. Or the art of moving alphabets based on their sounds to make a word. Well guess what, my four year old Einstein did every one of those words given to him. The teacher simply looked around the school and picked up a word. Ishaan then moved his alphabets around to make that word.

And his mom smiled, smiled, and then smiled some more.


Ishaan with his teacher, Maria Anna


Thinking......


Mission Accomplished


And that ladies and gentlemen is my son's snap on the left. Eyes closed. Belic tiles. This snap of his appeared in a Montessori schools association magazine. Didn't I tell you that's his favourite activity?