This autumn I’ve returned to Ms. Josloff’s classroom at the Philadelphia Montessori Charter School to work with her wonderful 6-8 year old students en route to creating an All Around This World “big kids'” curriculum. On Tuesday we sang songs from Latin America and learned about a Chilean dance known as “the cueca,” during which a rooster courts a chicken. The dancers portraying the roosters twirl scarves in the air part of the courtship. Here we are dancing, twirling and having a grand time:
