Inside a Montessori school, you will find children in mixed-age classrooms engaged and concentrating on their work. Montessori instruction uses a variety of materials that reinforce the lessons the Montessori guide, or teacher, presents to the children.
At Harbor Montessori School, you’ll also find students making lasagna after class.
Lasagna Love
In addition to the regular curriculum, guides at Harbor Montessori School present students with information about the importance of caring for themselves, others and the environment. To put that instruction into action, Head of School Aimee Allen invited students to join a Service Learning Club and participate in providing lasagna to people in the area through a global nonprofit called Lasagna Love.
Anyone can sign up for a lasagna through the Lasagna Love website. Washington Local Leader Justine Drewery pairs that person with the volunteer who lives closest to them. Lasagna Love, founded in 2020 in San Diego, now has 80,000 volunteers in all 50 states, Canada and Australia, Drewery said.
Allen said it seemed like a good service project to reinforce the instruction of caring for others…