Montessori in Memphis
This waterfront neighborhood near Downtown Memphis is home to the yellow schoolhouse called the Maria Montessori School
What is Harbor Town
You might find one of these lamps next to the peg game on your table at one of the 687 Cracker Barrel locations across the US.
What is a kerosene lamp?
Shelby Farms Park in Cordova is home to a herd of these local ruminant megafauna.
What are bison?
Maria Montessori, born in 1870, was the first woman in Italy to achieve this educational status
What is doctor (physician)?
The sandpaper letters are a material designed to acquaint young students with the curvilinear shapes of this style of script.
What is cursive?
This oldest continually operating Montessori school in Memphis was established in 1967 in Whitehaven by Dennis and Patty Calvert.
What is Lamplighter?
This 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman used a certain old-fashioned lamp as an important plot device.
What is Gaslight?
Once an important stop along the Nashville-Memphis Railroad in the 19th-20th centuries, Cordova is now the location of the terminus of this popular railroad-turned recreational trail in Memphis.
What is the Shelby Farms Greenline
Maria Montessori's only child, who became an integral assistant in her pedagogical research and studies later in her life, shares a name with this famous mushroom kingdom hero
Who is Mario
What is pink?
The first public charter school in Tennessee to use the Montessori method is this school which opened in Frayser in 2015.
What is Libertas?
The qulliq, a traditional Inuit lamp carved from soapstone and used to heat igloos, is lit with this kind of fuel.
What is seal oil (or seal or whale fat)?
International cuisine from the world over can be found along Germantown Parkway, Cordova's main thoroughfare. Some of this cultural diversity stems from the decision of this Cordova church to open its doors to Muslim immigrants, hosting what is now known as the Memphis Islamic Center.
What is Heartsong?
Montessori's first school, located in Rome, was called the Casa dei Bambini, Italian for "House of" this plural noun.
What is children?
Metal insets are a core component of the curriculum in teaching this field of mathematics, whose name comes from the Greek roots meaning "earth measuring"
What is geometry?
In the fall of 2006, students at the Maria Montessori School witnessed the appearance of this aquatic creature in the Wolf River Harbor, some 700 miles outside of its native range.
What is a manatee?
What is Diwali?
Under the rule of this Islamic Caliphate , the city of Cordoba in southern Spain (the namesake of Cordova, TN) became a world leader in education and scholarship.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
In 1990, Maria Montessori's visage appeared on the 1000 note of this pre-Euro currency.
What is the Lira?
The farm game is a material designed to help children internalize the formation and core components of this basic unit of written communication.
What is a sentence?
The Maria Montessori School hosts an annual Regatta, celebrating its maritime affiliations. During the Regatta the school traditionally raced this type of toy animal.
What are rubber ducks?
What is Chicago?
The Wolf River, which flows through parts of Cordova, was named for a Native American guide nicknamed "Le Loup" (the wolf) who aided the French in claiming the area near the river's mouth. This local Chickasaw name for the river derives from their word for wolf.
What is Neshoba?
Near the end of her life, Montessori resided in this European nation of canals and windmills, where the International Montessori Academy is based to this day.
What is the Netherlands?
The black ribbon is a material used to demonstrate the vastness of deep time, it consists of a 100 foot strip of black canvas fabric with a thin red strip on one end. The length of the ribbon represents the 4.6 billion years since Earth's formation, while the tiny red strip at the end represents the appearance of this species.
What are humans?