The Senior Elementary students turn in their journals each day and I always love reading their insights, reflections, accounts, and questions.  The students always have the option of folding the page over if it’s something that feels to private to share.  I’ve taken to writing responses to the entries, and one student decided she wanted to write journal “letters” over the weekend so that I’d write her a longer response today!  

I recently read the following passage from a student’s journal and I feel like it’s such a good summation of why we work so hard in Montessori to build upon students’ interests and passions.  This particular student wrote:

“You can take me out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of me.”

I hope she never looses that wild, forest self!