One difference between Montessori and regular schools, and which I noticed in my tour of Sasha's school, is the non-lecture type classes. Children learn through observation and experimentation. For example, one of the exercises I saw was the sink/float activity. Children put several objects in water and describe the characteristics of the things that float. They conclude, on their own, why some objects float and others don't. They are not told the answer until they discover it themselves.
A similar activity which Sasha started is to take things out of a basket, touch them with a magnet, and separate them into magnetic and non-magnetic (or as Sasha says "non a magnetic" piles.
Here she is experimenting:
Drawing more people:
Using her stamps and colored pencils:
I didn't quite capture it in this picture, but she's dancing ballet - one of her new interests.
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