Welcome back! I hope you’re as excited as I am! New year, new friends and new experiences. Hope everyone had a great summer.

I thought I would share one of my favorite quotes from Maria Montessori:

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and, when the grass of the meadows is damp with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath it’s shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning as it wakes every living creature that divides its day between waking and sleeping.”

“Nature has the ability to calm us, to connect us with beauty, and to reconnect us to the earth and environment.”

This is my hope for the new school year.