Day 70...Thursday Oct. 22

After the classroom had been rearranged, the energy in the class seemed to slow down...for all of two days. The first day had seemed so promising. The running had come to a halt, the new works had captured the attention of the kids, and there were a few moments of absolute silence as everyone was working. It was nothing short of heart breaking when the class quickly slipped back into its routine of disarray.

The important thing that came from this experiment was that, by practicing the use of the Montessori Triad, we were able to conclude that the troubles we were having did not stem from either the adult or the environment. This leaves one source left, the child. With the combination of personalities, needs, and behaviors, the children in our class were just not the right combination for normalizing our class. So the question arose....what now? There isn't anything that can be done in our capacity to change a child's personality or how they interact with others. There was so promising with the change in our class, however. It did show us that there were several students that were excited and willing to try some of the new works. There was an interest to learn under all that unsettled energy. Now we were left with the difficult task of finding a way to redirect that energy while coping with the tricky combination of personalities in our class.

A short lived success before all hope was Pickled.