Celebration plays an important role in our curriculum. One of these is each child's birthday. It is traditional in Montessori schools to celebrate birthdays with a specail Celebration of life. This is a special program tagged "the birthday walk" which helps the children understand their own personal history, and their place in the cosmos. With the help of their parents, children bring to school their own time line of life, with photos of birth, and one for each year of age. They walk around in the, one full circle for each year of life, and as they learn about time, they also realize how important they are, and how their lives are part of the human family history, the earth's history, and the history of the universe. All birthday parties held in school will be scheduled during lunchtime. These should be kept very simple and low keyed. School photographer will take shots of the celebrants in the school compound and the album will be presented to the parents at a reasonable fee.