From ages 3 to 5, I attended a Montessori preschool and Kindergarten. One of the tenets of a Montessori school, according to our benevolent leader Wikipedia, is "a Constructivism (learning theory) or 'discovery' model, where students learn concepts from working with materials, rather than by direct instruction."
This is why, I assume, they had box after box of plastic chips in varying shades of varying colors. We were often asked to choose all the chips of one color and arrange them from lightest to darkest, darkest to lightest, etc. But as you can see, it all paid off in the end.
Yes, friends, that would be 10 samples of green paint you see before you, arranged in a manner Ms. Montessori herself would probably approve, or at least acknowledge that it marked a plane of development of some kind.
Who knew how many greens there could be, or how many opinions one could have about them? Too yellow, too blue, too olive, too sage, too...sigh.
But one has been selected. Appropriately for E, who loves hot peppers, it is called Jalapeño. Appropriately for me, the history major, it is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation collection as it is apparently used at La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. Guesses?
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