 Welcome to our school! Our school is located in the Southern Peninsula of Nicoya. We are a small but growing school. Our school population is composed mostly of children of European background, some of them born in Costa Rica. The beauty of our surroundings makes this part of Costa Rica a desirable destiny for a lot of people. Our children get to be influenced by artist of many different nationalities, who come and give workshops in theatre, dance, music… The school offers a full range of both artistic and academic programs and is constantly expanding. At present we have experienced instructors offering somatic movement, music and a drawing art class, as well as a full academic Montessori program. My name is Rocío Vargas Artavia. I am Costa Rican. I lived in the United States for twenty one years. A graduated from the University of New Mexico in the faculty of humanities; in 1988 completed my training as a Montessori directress in Phoenix, Arizona with the Association Montessori International (A.M.I). I worked in Montessori Schools for fifteen years. Quotations. By Molly O´Shaughnessy. From The Child and the Natural Environment. Namta Journal, Volume 25 Number 1. Winter 2000  Our School The greatest gift we can give this spontaneous explorer is time and opportunity __time to create intimacy with the world, time for free play, time to wonder, time to arouse the emotions, and time with us as her loyal companion to share in the discoveries and mysteries of the world. At this stage is more important to feel than to know. From The Sense of Wonder. By Rachael Carson
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused__ a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love __then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it is more important to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.
¨Give the world to the small child¨ Maria Montessori.
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