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For more details on the model API, see the test files:
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https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/blob/master/Tests/test_TorusDBNTrainer.py and https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/blob/master/Tests/test_TorusDBNModel.py.
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Mocapy++ is a machine learning toolkit for training and using Bayesian networks. It has been used to develop probabilistic models of biomolecular structures. The goal of this project is to develop a Python interface to Mocapy++ and integrate it with Biopython. This will allow the training of a probabilistic model using data extracted from a database. The integration of Mocapy++ with Biopython will provide a strong support for the field of protein structure prediction, design and simulation.
Discovering the structure of biomolecules is one of the biggest problems in biology. Given an amino acid or base sequence, what is the three dimensional structure? One approach to biomolecular structure prediction is the construction of probabilistic models. A Bayesian network is a probabilistic model composed of a set of variables and their joint probability distribution, represented as a directed acyclic graph. A dynamic Bayesian network is a Bayesian network that represents sequences of variables. These sequences can be time-series or sequences of symbols, such as protein sequences. Directional statistics is concerned mainly with observations which are unit vectors in the plane or in three-dimensional space. The sample space is typically a circle or a sphere. There must be special directional methods which take into account the structure of the sample spaces. The union of graphical models and directional statistics allows the development of probabilistic models of biomolecular structures. Through the use of dynamic Bayesian networks with directional output it becomes possible to construct a joint probability distribution over sequence and structure. Biomolecular structures can be represented in a geometrically natural, continuous space. Mocapy++ is an open source toolkit for inference and learning using dynamic Bayesian networks that provides support for directional statistics. Mocapy++ is excellent for constructing probabilistic models of biomolecular structures; it has been used to develop models of protein and RNA structure in atomic detail. Mocapy++ is used in several high-impact publications, and will form the core of the molecular modeling package Phaistos, which will be released soon. The goal of this project is to develop a highly useful Python interface to Mocapy++, and to integrate that interface with the Biopython project. Through the Bio.PDB module, Biopython provides excellent functionality for data mining biomolecular structure databases. Integrating Mocapy++ and Biopython will allow training a probabilistic model using data extracted from a database. Integrating Mocapy++ with Biopython will create a powerful toolkit for researchers to quickly implement and test new ideas, try a variety of approaches and refine their methods. It will provide strong support for the field of biomolecular structure prediction, design, and simulation.
Author & Mentors
Michele Silva firstname.lastname@example.com
- Thomas Hamelryck
- Eric Talevich
Project Schedule
Work Plan
Gain understanding of SEM and directional statistics
- Review the theory behind machine learning for bioinformatics, Markov chain Monte Carlo and dynamic Bayesian networks.
- Build the theoretical background on the algorithms used in Mocapy++, such as parameter learning of Bayesian networks using Stochastic Expectation Maximization (SEM).
Study Mocapy++'s use cases
- Read several papers and attempt to replicate part of the experiments described using Mocapy++.
- Get a better understanding of biological sequence analysis done through probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids.
Work with Mocapy++
- Understand Mocapy++'s internal architecture and algorithms by exploring its source code and running its test cases.
- Research other applications of Mocapy++ in Bioinformatics.
Design Mocapy++'s Python interface
- Explore the source code of Biopython to understand its design and implementation. The Mocapy++ interface to be included in Biopython must be made compatible with the methods of solving problems in Biopython.
- Design a Python interface for Mocapy++, based on its data structures and algorithms. Examine Mocapy++'s use cases and existing test cases to provide guidance for the interface design.
Implement Python bindings
- Implement test cases in Python using the new interface to Mocapy++.
- Implement python bindings for the defined interface.
Explore Mocapy++'s applications
- Develop example applications that involve data mining of biomolecular structure databases using Biopython.
- Formulate probabilistic models using Python-Mocapy++. Apply the models to solve biological problems. Examples of problems that can be solved using dynamic Bayesian networks include deciding if a pair of sequences is evolutionarily related, finding sequences which are homologous to a known evolutionary family and predicting RNA secondary structure.
Project Code
Hosted at the gSoC11 Mocapy branch
Project Progress
Options to create Python bindings to C++ code
There is already an effort to provide bindings for Mocapy++ using Swig. However, Swig is not the best option if performance is to be required. The Sage project aims at providing an open source alternative to Mathematica or Maple. Cython was developed in conjunction with Sage (it is an independent project, though), thus it is based on Sage's requirements. They tried Swig, but declined it for performance issues. According to the Sage programming guide "The idea was to write code in C++ for SAGE that needed to be fast, then wrap it in SWIG. This ground to a halt, because the result was not sufficiently fast. First, there is overhead when writing code in C++ in the first place. Second, SWIG generates several layers of code between Python and the code that does the actual work". This was written back in 2004, but it seems things didn't evolve much. The only reason I would consider Swig is for future including Mocapy++ bindings on BioJava and BioRuby projects.
Boost Python
Boost Python is comprehensive and well accepted by the Python community. I would go for it for its extensive use and testing. I would decline it for being hard to debug and having a complicated building system. I don't think it would be worth including a boost dependency just for the sake of creating the Python bindings, but since Mocapy++ already depends on Boost, using it becomes a more attractive option. In my personal experience, Boost Python is very mature and there are no limitations on what one can do with it. When it comes to performance, Cython still overcomes it. Have a look at the Cython C++ wrapping benchmarks and check the timings of Cython against Boost Python. There are also previous benchmarks comparing Swig and Boost Python.
It is incredibly faster than other options to create python bindings to C++ code, according to several benchmarks available on the web. Check the Simple benchmark between Cython and Boost.Python. It is also very clean and simple, yet powerful. Python's doc on porting extension modules mentions cython: "If you are writing a new extension module, you might consider Cython." Cython has now support for efficient interaction with numpy arrays. it is a young, but developing language and I would definitely give it a try for its leanness and speed.
Since Boost is well supported and Mocapy++ already relies on it, we decided to use Boost.Python for the bindings.
For further information see Mocapy++Biopython - Box of ideas.
Bindings Prototype
The source code for the prototype is on the gSoC11 branch: http://mocapy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mocapy/branches/gSoC11/bindings_prototype/
Bindings for a few Mocapy++ features and a couple of examples to find possible implementation and performance issues.
- Implemented the examples hmm_discrete and discrete_hmm_with_prior in Python, assuming the interface Mocapy++ already provides.
- Implemented the bindings to provide a minimum subset of functionality, in order to run the implemented examples.
- Compared the performance of C++ and Python versions.
Mocapy++'s interface remained unchanged, so the tests look similar to the ones in Mocapy/examples.
In the prototype the bindings were all implemented in a single module. For the actual implementation, we could mirror the src packages structure, having separated bindings for each package such as discrete, inference, etc.
It was possible to implement all the functionality required to run the examples. It was not possible to use the vector_indexing_suite when creating bindings for vectors of MDArrays. A few operators (in the MDArray) must be implemented in order to export indexable C++ containers to Python.
Two Mocapy++ examples that use discrete nodes were implemented in Python. There was no problem in exposing Mocapy's data structures and algorithms. The performance of the Python version is very close to the original Mocapy++.
For additional details have a look at the Mocapy++ Bindings Prototype report.
Bindings Implementation
Bindings for the core functions and data structures
Data structures
Mocapy uses an internal data structure to represent arrays: MDArray. In order to make it easier for the user to interact with Mocapy's API, it was decided to provide an interface that accepts numpy arrays. Therefore, it was necessary to implement a translation between a numpy array and an MDArray.
The translation from MDArray to python was done through the use of Boost.Python to_python_converter. We've implemented a template method convert_MDArray_to_numpy_array, which converts an MDArray of any basic type to a corresponding numpy array. In order to perform the translation the original array's shape and internal data are copied into a new numpy array.
The numpy array was created using the Numpy Array API. The creation of a new PyArrayObject using existing data (PyArray_SimpleNewFromData) doesn't copy the array data, it just stores a pointer to it. Thus, one can only free the data when there is no reference to the object. This was done through the use of a Capsule. Besides encapsulating the data, the capsule also stores a destructor to be used when the array is destroyed. The PyArrayObject has a field named "base" which points to the capsule.
The translation from Python to C++, i.e. creating an MDArray from a numpy array is slightly more complex. Boost.Python will provide a chunk of memory into which the new C++ object must constructed in-place. See the How to write boost.python converters article for more details.
A translation between std::vector of basic types (double, int...) and Python list was also implemented. For std::vector of custom types, such as Node, the translation to a Python list was not performed. If done the same ways as for basic types, a type error is raised: "TypeError: No to_python (by-value) converter found for C++ type". When using vector_indexing_suite this problem was already solved. See Wrapping std::vector<AbstractClass*>. The only inconvenience of using the vector_indexing_suite is creating new types such as vector_Node, instead of using a standard Python list.
The code for the translations is in the mocapy_data_structures module.
Core functions
The mocapy Python packages follow Mocapy's current source tree. For each package, a shared library with the bindings was created. This makes compilation faster and debug easier. Also, if a single library was created it wouldn't be possible to define packages.
Each of the libraries is called libmocapy_<nameofthepackage>. For example, libmocapy_gaussian provides bindings for the gaussian nodes and probability distributions. The libmocapy_data_structures is used by other libraries and, therefore, must be imported first. This is done on the Python side. Each of the libmocapy_* libraries is imported in the corresponding package. See Creating Packages.
The bindings code can be found in the Bindings directory.
Currently, tests to the just created interface are being developed. There are a few tests already implemented under the framework package: mocapy/framework/tests
Bindings for the remaining Mocapy++ functionality
Data structures
While implementing the bindings for the remaining Mocapy++ functionality there were problems with methods that take pointers and references to an mdarray:
- It is not possible to call a method which takes a pointer if the object is created on the python side. See how to call a function that expects a pointer?.
- It is not possible to automatically translate a non const reference. The custom rvalue converters only match functions with the following signatures:
void foo(std::vector<double> const& array); // pass by const-reference void foo(std::vector<double> array); // pass by value
For further details see How can I wrap functions which take C++ containers as arguments?
The mdarray is created in python using a numpy.array that is translated to c++ using custom converters. The custom converters are registered in the global Boost.Python registry near the top of the module initialization function. Once flow control has passed through the registration code the automatic conversions from and to Python.
Because of this automatic conversions, it was necessary to create wrappers for functions which take pointers as arguments and change the functions which take references, to get const references. Because Mocapy++ is not const correct, changes are needed to use the const references properly. While the changes are being done, some const_cast have been used. When using const_cast one must be aware it is not always safe.
The call policies were also reviewed. When using an incorrect return value policy, you won't get a compile error, but your code will crash at runtime.
Mocapy++'s examples were implemented in Python, using the exposed API and data type conversions. http://mocapy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mocapy/branches/gSoC11/python/examples/
Testing and Improving Mocapy Bindings
Before integrating to Biopython, some unit testing was required, to detect possible errors and make sure future changes that break functionality won't go unnoticed.
For every Python package, it was created a "tests" directory which contains the unit tests created for each module. Here is one example of the tests created for the framework package: http://mocapy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mocapy/branches/gSoC11/python/mocapy/framework/tests/
While testing the code, a few issues were detected:
- Object ownership:
When passing an object created on the C++ side to a method that takes a pointer as an argument, one should be careful about the life time of that object.
For example, the set_random_gen method takes a pointer to a RandomGen object. The following code works just fine.
random_gen = RandomGen() node.set_random_gen(random_gen=random_gen)
But if instead of doing that, we do the following:
The reference count has not been incremented and therefore the object can be destroyed.
The way to solve the problem is to make sure the C++ object is held by auto_ptr:
class_<RandomGen, std::auto_ptr<RandomGen> >("RandomGen")
Then make a thin wrapper function which takes an auto_ptr parameter:
void node_set_random_gen(Node& node, std::auto_ptr<RandomGen> random_gen) { node.set_random_gen(random_gen.get()); node.release(); }
For further details, see How can I wrap a function which needs to take ownership of a raw pointer?
Pointers returned via manage_new_object will also be held by auto_ptr, so the transfer-of-ownership works correctly. When using this call policy the caller is responsible for deleting the C++ object from the heap.
- Translation from numpy.array to a float mdarray
If the numpy array is an integer array, the translation creates an mdarray<int> and this is passed to a method which expects an mdarray of floats. This generates incorrect results.
The way to deal with that from the user perspective is either using floating pointer numbers to create the array or setting the ndtype parameter when creating the array:
x = numpy.array([[1,2,3,4,5,6]], dtype=numpy.float64)
Building and Distributing Mocapy as a Package
Distutils was used to distribute Mocapy's Python modules.
Besides distributing the python code, it was also necessary to build the extension modules. Building Extensions with boost.python describes ways to build extensions using distutils.
Mocapy's setup.py can be found at http://mocapy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mocapy/branches/gSoC11/python/setup.py?revision=418&view=markup
Using the setup script, mocapy installation is done in a few steps:
- Build the mocapy library using cmake (usual procedure described in mocapy docs);
- Issue "python setup.py build", to build the extension modules;
- Issue "python setup.py install", to install the package (normally, the install procedure does the step above in case you didn't).
Integration with Biopython
API Design
In order to use Mocapy in conjunction with Biopython, a new module for PDB-specific features was added to Bio.PDB. This is where the API is being designed.
Mocapy is added as an optional dependency in Biopython. Inside the function or module that requires Mocapy, "import mocapy" is wrapped in a try/except block. A MissingPythonDependencyError is issued if the import fails.
Things that are being studied to be included in the module:
- extract the backbone dihedral angles from a given set of structures;
- use this data to train a TorusDBN-like model;
- automatically decide on the best model using the BIC criterion.
Frellsen J, Moltke I, Thiim M, Mardia KV, Ferkinghoff-Borg J, et al. 2009 A Probabilistic Model of RNA Conformational Space. PLoS Comput Biol 5(6): e1000406. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000406.
RNA 3-D structure prediction methods require an accurate energy function and a conformational sampling procedure. Barnacle focuses on the problem of conformational sampling.
The aim of BARNACLE (BAyesian network model of RNA using Circular distributions and maximum Likelihood Estimation) is to capture both the marginal distributions of each of the angles and the local dependencies between them. Barnacle describes RNA structure in a natural continuous space. It can be used purely as a proposal distribution, but also as an energy term enforcing realistic local conformations. The model combines a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) with directional statistics.
The DBN represents nine consecutive dihedral angles, where the seven central angles originate from a single nucleotide. Each slice j (a column of three variables) corresponds to one dihedral angle in an RNA fragment. The variables in each slice are: an angle identifier, Dj, a hidden variable, Hj, and an angular variable, Aj. The angle identifier keeps track of which dihedral angle is represented by a slice, while the angular node models the actual dihedral angle value. The hidden nodes induce dependencies between all angles along the sequence (and not just between angles in consecutive slices).
The original source code for Barnacle, which contains an embedded version of Mocapy written in Python, can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/barnacle-rna.
The modified version of Barnacle, changed to work with the Mocapy bindings can be found at https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/tree/master/Bio/PDB/Barnacle.
Here is an example of use:
model = Barnacle('ACCU') model.sample() print 'log likelihood = ', model.get_log_likelihood() model.save_structure('structure01.pdb')
Wouter Boomsma, Kanti V. Mardia, Charles C. Taylor, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Anders Krogh, and Thomas Hamelryck. A generative, probabilistic model of local protein structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 1; 105(26): 8932–8937. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440424/
TorusDBN aims at predicting the 3D structure of a biomolecule given its amino-acid sequence. It is a continuous probabilistic model of the local sequence–structure preferences of proteins in atomic detail. The backbone of a protein can be represented by a sequence of dihedral angle pairs, φ and ψ that are well known from the Ramachandran plot. Two angles, both with values ranging from −180° to 180°, define a point on the torus. Hence, the backbone structure of a protein can be fully parameterized as a sequence of such points.
The circular nodes represent stochastic variables. The rectangular boxes along the arrows illustrate the nature of the conditional probability distribution between them. A hidden node emits angle pairs, amino acid information, secondary structure labels and cis/trans information.
The TorusDBN model is originally implemented as part of the backboneDBN package, which is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phaistos/.
A new version of the TorusDBN model was implemented in the context of this project and can be found at https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/tree/master/Bio/PDB/TorusDBN.
The TorusDBNTrainer can be used to train a model with a given training set:
trainer = TorusDBNTrainer() trainer.train(training_set) # training_set is a list of files model = trainer.get_model()
Then the model can be used to sample new sequences:
model.set_aa('ACDEFGHIK') model.sample() print model.get_angles() # The sampled angles.
When creating a model, it is possible to create a new DBN specifying the size of the hidden node or loading the DBN from a file.
model = TorusDBNModel() model.create_dbn(hidden_node_size=10) model.save_dbn('test.dbn')
model = TorusDBNModel() model.load_dbn('test.dbn') model.set_aa('ACDEFGHIK') model.sample() print model.get_angles() # The sampled angles.
It is also possible to choose the best size for the hidden node using the find_optimal_model method:
trainer = TorusDBNTrainer() hidden_node_size, IC = trainer.find_optimal_model(training_set) model = trainer.get_model()
IC is either the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) or the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) (Defaults to BIC. AIC can be specified by setting the use_aic flag).
For more details on the model API, see the test files: https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/blob/master/Tests/test_TorusDBNTrainer.py and https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/blob/master/Tests/test_TorusDBNModel.py.
A few performance measurements were made comparing test cases implemented both in C++ and in Python. The tests were run in a computer with the following specification: Core 2 Duo T7250 2.00GHz, Memory Dual Channel 4.0GB (2x2048) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Hard Drive 200GB 7200RPM.
There were no significant performance differences. For both implementations the methods responsible for consuming most cpu time were the same:
The profiling tests were made using Callgrind and visualized using Kcachegrind.
Here are the average running time of the examples available with Mocapy (10 runs):
|Test name
|C++ (s)
|Python (s)
Even though the PDB files are read, parsed and transformed in a format mocapy can understand, the most time consuming methods are the ones performing mathematical operations during the sampling process (Chebyshev and exp, for example).
The model has been trained with a training set consisting of about 950 chains with maximum 20% homology, resolution below 1.6 Å and R-factor below 25%. It took about 67 minutes to read and train the whole dataset.
The resulting DBN is available at https://github.com/mchelem/biopython/blob/master/Tests/TorusDBN/pisces_dataset.dbn and can be loaded directly into the model as explained in the TorusDBN section above.
Future work
The summer is over, but the work continues... There are still a lot of things I intend to work on:
- Test the trained models to check their effectiveness in protein structure prediction.
- Try to reduce dynamic allocation as it is responsible for a lot of running time.
- Guarantee there are no memory leaks in the bindings.


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1996 - Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics this year and Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced. Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned. The first version of the Java programming language was released, HotMail started providing free email service, and just over 10 million people were using the internet.
Do you know someone who attended MSGL in 1996? You just might find them here.
Parent/Infant Class
Toddler Class
Preprimary Class A
Preprimary Class B
Preprimary Class D
Preprimary Class E
Extended Day Kindergarten
Thanks for reading. I hope you have been able to go sledding in all this snow. Have a terrific Wednesday!
One full year before MSGL acquired the property that is now our campus, the Calvary Baptist Church invited us to hold an open house for our families. These photos, from September 24, 1999, show lots of familiar faces and a campus without ramps, fences, or the 10 inches of snow that is on the ground today.
I can't bear to throw away a good opportunity for a photo comparison, but we don't have a current photo taken from the same perspective. Here are two beautiful photos that offer an idea of what this view looks like today.
I hope you were able to enjoy seeing some green grass and leaves on the trees. And I promise that Spring will come exactly when it's supposed to. Until then, thanks for reading and have your best possible Wednesday!
On September 21, 2000, Montessori Parents, Inc. officially closed on the purchase of the property at 2552 Soldiers Home Road that would become the new campus of the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. To celebrate and prepare for the next step, the board of directors and some staff and parents met that evening in the sanctuary of what was the former Calvary Baptist Church. Board president Craig Lamb offered a toast with champagne served in paper cups.
The next morning, demolition of the buildings began. MSGL parent Tony Harvey coordinated the building project. His father, Donald Harvey, was the general contractor.
These are photos of the front of the sanctuary that is now the northwest corner of the Catalpa Room. When asked about these photos, Tony said that the gold walls on the left were part of the room that lead to the baptistry. "If you came to Calvary Baptist Church and you wanted to be saved," he explained, "you had to go through that room."
This was just the beginning of 5 months of hard and dirty work by many dedicated staff and parent volunteers. Three generations of families came together for one common goal. True friendships were forged. A lot of those people are still involved with MSGL today. I look forward to sharing the few photos and many stories of that time here on Wayback Wednesdays. If you were part of this amazing project and wish to share your stories, please add them as comments to the bottom of these posts or emaill me and I will be so happy to include them in an upcoming post. Of course, any photos you share will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading! Have a terrific Wednesday.
I had the great pleasure of working in my former classroom today and it reminded me of why the three-year cycle in Montessori classrooms is so beneficial, not least of all, to the teachers.
Our Montessori preschool classrooms are composed of a mixed-age group of children who remain, ideally, in one classroom for three years. A child starts at age three and stays through her Kindergarten year. This is called the three year cycle. Each of those years brings new and unique learning opportunities for the child. As a three-year-old, the child observes her older peers and benefits from their experience. As a four-year-old, she starts to see herself as one of the "big kids" and expands her social circle. In her Kindergarten year she is recognized as a leader and takes pride in helping others.
When I took a sabbatical at the end of the school year in May, I left behind children who had been in my classroom for one or two years. I was able to catch up with many of those students today when I visited the classroom. I observed that two of "my" third-year students, I'll call them S and K, were part of what Montessorian John Chattin-McNichols calls a "roving pack of 5-year-olds." They were wandering around with some other boys and mixing it up a little. I knew these two boys when they were just barely three years old. I knew them before they could consciously control their bodies at group time and even before they could dress themselves successfully. Now, here they were - big, bold 5-year-olds and I was curious to see who they had become eight months after we last worked together.
Angie, my dear friend and the lead teacher of my former class, shared with me that S and K had been working on the squaring and cubing chains in the math area, so I asked them about those activities. They were eager to show me what they had already done and tell me what came next. Within a few minutes, they broke off from the pack and were ready to master the 10 cubing chain.
The 10 cubing chain - or 1000 chain - is a concrete representation of 10 cubed. It's made up of one thousand pea-sized beads organized into bars of ten. The bars of ten are attached at the ends to make a chain. Children are ready for this work after they have mastered the 1 - 10 squaring chains and the 1 - 9 cubing chains. This video from the DuPage Montessori School in Naperville, Illinois provides a good overview of how the squaring and cubing chains are presented in the Montessori classroom.
The 10 cubing chain is nearly 30 feet long so it must be laid out in the hallway outside the classroom. So, off to the hallway we went.
S and K divided up the tasks between themselves. One carried the rolled-up mat and the other carried the chain. We established the space we would use in the hallway and K unrolled the mat while S went back into the classroom for the number tabs. We discussed how they would sort the tabs on the tray and move it down the mat as they worked.
S found the 1000 tab. He knew it went at the very end of the chain but he left it on the tray. There was a pause before they started and I asked what number they would start with. S said, "We have to count them all."
That is certainly one way to do it. But when a child is ready for the 1000 chain, he is generally ready to complete it without counting every number because he can now count by tens and hundreds. Once you trust that 10 is ten, you don't have to count it again.
I asked if they thought they could first put tabs on the hundreds. Yes! They were sure they could. Together, we counted the bars as 10, 20, 30 and so on until we got to 100. S got the 100 tab and marked that spot. K quickly grasped the system and immediately went to work sorting out all of the hundreds tabs in a separate group so that S could place them. This was my cue to find something else to do. I went back inside the classroom to assist Miss Angie while the boys marked off every 100th bead on the chain with the appropriate tab.
They repeated the process, stopping after each bar of ten. K was the sorter, S was the placer. "150! I need 150," S said. K had it ready. There was never any disagreement, that I heard, over who would do which task. They just got started and they each found their niche as they went. And they were really digging their work.
They started the cubing chain work at 9:45 and I checked in with them every few minutes. They finished at 11:00. One of them stopped to use the bathroom then went straight back to his work. Other children would step into the hall to see what was happening and then go back inside to their work.
Sometimes I checked on S and K without speaking and other times I acknowledged their progress. Once, I said I would be back to check on them in a bit unless they needed some help. "We need some help," S said. They could not find the tab for 590. I suggested they leave a space for that number and they could put it there when they found it. They never found it, but they were able to move on without hesitation.
As they got to the very end, S picked up the 1000 tab and started to place it under the 1000th bead. K said, "Hey! We decided we would put that one on together!" And so they did. That's when this photo was snapped.
If you had asked me three years ago if these children were developing normally and if they were going to learn to read and write and grow up to be compassionate humans I would have responded, "Of course they will!" But in the back of my head there would have been a tiny voice saying, "What if they aren't? What if they are never able to sit in a chair for more than 8 seconds? What if they never learn to put their shoes on by themselves? What if they show no interest in reading? What if they always write six as 9?"
That doubtful voice is a familiar one to parents because most of us only get to experience the development of one or two children. We fear we will do something wrong and our children will not achieve their potential. Preschool teachers should know better because we get to observe hundreds of children over the course of our careers, right? But sometimes, even with years of experience, we forget that our job is simply to prepare a nourishing environment. It is the child who must do the work of building the man.
In 1949, Maria Montessori offered us some guidance in our quest to relax and trust that each child will reveal himself as a competent and confident being in his own time. In The Absorbent Mind she wrote, "...for while, in the traditional schools, the teacher sees the immediate behavior of her pupils, knowing that she must look after them and what she has to teach, the Montessori teacher is constantly looking for a child who is not yet there."
Dr. Montessori also implemented the three-year cycle in our classrooms to give us enough time to look for that child and see him before he moves on to primary school.
I am not at all surprised that S and K can count to 1000 by tens and hundreds. I am not surprised that they can recognize 3-digit numerals or that they can prepare, complete, and put away their work. I am not even surprised that two 5-year-old boys willingly work together on a math material for 1 hour and and 15 minutes with only a bathroom break and very limited guidance. I've seen it before.
I am surprised at the sense of joyous relief I feel each time children reveal themselves in this way. It's an experience that never gets old. I suppose that's the ultimate reward of being a teacher.
January of 2000 saw the beginning of the beginning for our current location on Soldiers Home Road. The architects at Schwarz Associates in Lafayette began designing our new space. This is the architect's rendering of the exterior of both buildings.
The photos below were taken over a year later in October, 2001.
Here is the current head-on view from 2013.
Thanks to non-acrophobic parent and board member Mary Mckay for taking those aerial photos in 2001. Parenting is not for the faint of heart.
Happy Wednesday! Thanks for reading.
I should mention that there ARE other ducks in the toolbox. They are small ducks that fit in Harriet's pocket when she carries her camera and tripod to the classrooms to take group photos. But The Duck only works the main room. There is also a rubber frog that sometimes gets called up on the rare occasion that The Duck can't get a child to laugh. Harriet's experience tells her which toy to try.
She also encourages parents to let their children wear something comfortable on picture day. "Don't overdress them because children don't act the same way if they are overdressed," Harriet suggests.
It was great to spend picture day with Harriet and get answers to all of my (and your) questions about The Duck. But I had to confess that up until a few years ago, I didn't even know she had a first name. I had always known her, as we all do, as "The Ducky Lady." That seems to be how she likes it. But she was willing to share just a few personal details.
Although The Duck doesn't spend much time in the water outside of his daily bath, Harriet enjoys being outdoors when she's not behind a camera.
"I go kayaking and hiking. I belong to a kayaking group. That's what I do when I don't photograph," she says.
A few years ago, our school director Suman invited Harriet and some friends from school on a trip to India. For Harriet, that was a dream come true. One favorite memory is of riding on an elephant with her friend Beth.
"That was nice," she says, smiling. "India was my dream country. That's where I always wanted to go. I wanted to go there before they lose their saris and all the colors and become jeans people."
At the end of picture day as Harriet packed up The Duck to leave MSGL, Lena and Anita made sure she got one of our tie-dyed school t-shirts. The shirt made Harriet really happy and I asked her why.
"It's yellow and orange," she exclaimed. "My favorite colors!"
Winter is upon us and the staff of the Wayback Wednesday department is preparing to head south for the season. (The staff certainly wishes this was true.) Okay, we're not really going anywhere but we have discovered a treasure trove of awesome photos. We will be scanning them and organizing them over winter break. When everyone returns in January you can look forward to the beginning of "Building MSGL." It's the story of how our families built the MSGL campus that we know and love today.
To whet your appetites I am posting one photo from that winter of 2000. Look at this photo and see if you can figure out where in the school it is. The first commenter to get it correct wins a free Wayback Wednesday t-shirt. (The staff certainly wishes this was true.) Okay, no t-shirt but you can still be first. Have fun guessing!
Have a terrific Wednesday and an awesome winter break!
This week we look back at some photos from 1998.
Anita McKinney, our first executive director, was leaving MSGL to live closer to her family in Florida. Her MSGL family held a farewell reception in her honor just before the winter break. These are photos of some of the children wishing her well.
Anita started working at MSGL in July, 1991 when the parent-owned school decided it needed a full-time. Up to then, the office staff coordinated with the Board of Directors. This next photo is actually from about 1996. It shows Anita with Beth Nichols, who was then the office manager, in the teeny, tiny office at Morton Center.
Beth is still with us and now works as our accountant. Anita has been working with Florida's Duval County Extension office since 1998. She is currently teaching personal financial management in Jacksonville. She is retiring in January and will start another "job" taking care of her twin grandchildren Dominic and Danica. She is excited about this new chapter in her life and told me, "They will be three by then , so I will start my own little Montessori home-school with them. I am looking forward to this next step!"
Best wishes, Anita! And happy Wednesday to you, faithful readers.
Somdatta and Felicia of the Canoe Birch Class and Cathy and Mary of the All-Day Program invited the children to tell who and what they are thankful for and then wrote their answers on leaves. Each class has a paper tree by the door displaying the children's gratitude. As this Thanksgiving Day draws to a close I thought it would be nice to share the gratitude of these 3, 4, and 5-year-olds with all of you.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
Today's Wayback Wednesday comes from March, 2000. The children in Room B were treated to a science presentation by a group of MSGL parents.
These parents must have been SO COOL! We are thankful for all of the Montessori parents and grandparents who have shared their interests and their time with our children over the past 41 years. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
MSGL now has a Book Reviews page.
Click here to visit the Book Reviews Blog. We welcome reviews of recommended books from staff, parents, and children.
Contact me at: email@example.com if you would like to submit a book review to our site.
We're keeping things simple on Wayback Wednesday this week with a short and sweet little collection of photos from October, 2002. Teacher Judy West took the children of the Red Oak class on a nature hike to Purdue's Horticulture Park to enjoy the crisp morning, collect leaves, and hug some very deserving trees.
Do you have favorite photos you would like to share on Wayback Wednesday? Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Have an outstanding Wednesday!
Today is school picture day!
When Harriet and "the ducky" show up to take our pictures, you can bet that the children are well-dressed, the snack is no-mess, and the staff is slightly stressed - for two whole days. Sometimes there are tears and pouty faces, but never in front of the children :)
These teachers from 2004 look pretty happy. Enjoy this week's Wayback Wednesday photos from 2004.
Smile, silly ducky! And have a terrific Wednesday.
The MSGL photo archives are a bit disorganized and I usually have to sift through them to come up with a Wayback Wednesday post, but this week the work was already done. After leading the toddler families on this field trip to Lafayette's Columbian Park Zoo in the Spring of 1998, teacher Suman Harshvardhan put together this little photo album for the children.
These kiddos are college freshmen (or nearly) now. Thanks for reading and have a great Wednesday!
We're really reaching back here for Halloween gold - all the way back to 1989. Back in the day, the whole school had a costume parade in the Morton Center gymnasium. It was a big year for bunnies, clowns, and superheroes.
First, I will start with what I saw this week. This was my favorite moment.
Another photo. If you are familiar with Humans of New York, the book and website by Brandon Stanton, then I know you can relate. If not, I know you can relate.
Children dress so fabulously and so beautifully because they have not yet learned that other people are judging their choices. They wear what they like. I want to wear what I like but I feel childish. How old will I grow before I truly understand that being childish is the truest way to be?
And, one more photo.
And now, for what I heard.
1. I erroneously asked a child how she was enjoying her Kindergarten year at MSGL. She responded, "I'm not IN Kindergarten. That's why I'm HERE!"
2. "That's a small story."
3. A friend was reading me a note from his lunch box. "Look! Look it! It says I'm going to my grandma's house. And I think I'm gonna get a Spiderman hat when we go to the store."
4. "Yeah. Let's do our maps."
5. "Where's the damn lizard?"
Rest easy. That darned lizard was found.
Montessori School of Greater Lafayette Staff, 1992
Here are the year's class photos. If you recognize any of the children, all should be in their mid-twenties now, consider directing them here. We would love to hear from them and from the teachers.
Class A - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class B - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class D - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class E - Afternoon Preprimary, 1992
Class C - 3-day and 5-day Toddlers, 1992
Class C - 2-day Toddlers, 1992
The s-word is in our forecast this week. I don't know anyone who is happy about the October SNOW except for my allergy-suffering friends. With the snow come cold temperatures and at MSGL we play outside year-round, so it's important for children to have warm and practical clothing to wear every day. For the past 12 years I greeted the children on the playground at 8:30 am, snow or shine. To help you prepare for this week and the next six months (it hurts me to say that), I have compiled for you:
Miss Heather's Top 10 List for Child Comfort and Parent Happiness: Winter Edition
1. Check the forecast. Every class - Toddler through Elementary - goes outside when the temperature is 20 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Check the weather forecast each day before leaving the house to make sure your child will have the appropriate cold-weather gear for that day.
2. Go with the low. Consider the time of day your child will be outside. The forecast may call for a high temp. of 63 degrees, but the temperature at 8:30 am might only be in the 40's. Some classes start outside, some go out at 10:15, some at 11:00. The afternoon and Elementary classes go out at varying times throughout the week. Provide clothing for the day's low temperature and your child should be well-prepared.
3. Layer, layer, layer. Imagine your child as a cute, rosy-cheeked onion and help her dress in layers. Being hot and sweaty outside in the cold is just as uncomfortable as shivering. If your child can take off a sweater or push back her hood and unzip her coat, she will be able to regulate her body temperature and still enjoy the time outside.
4. Listen to your child. Trust your child to make decisions about his comfort. The only way we can learn if we are too cold is if we are allowed to feel the cold. If your child doesn't want to wear his gloves, don't sweat it. Make sure he knows his gloves are in his locker and that he can go get them if he gets cold. The same goes for his snow pants and his bulky winter coat. An active child dressed in layers with warm shoes and a hat can generally enjoy himself outside without danger of getting too cold, even in winter. If your child is listening to his body instead of chafing under a "mitten mandate" he is more likely to develop a true sense of how to dress for the weather. My friend "Z" always told his dad he didn't want to wear his coat or his snow pants or his gloves, but 10 minutes after dad left, Z would ask to go get them.
5. Start a discussion. Talk with your child about the day's weather and how to dress. Remember that the ultimate goals are safety and independence. You might say something like, "It's 30 degrees Fahrenheit. You definitely need to wear something on your hands, but you can choose if you wear your Spiderman gloves or the mittens Grandma made for you." Or try, "It's going to be 45 degrees when you go outside today. What should you pack for school?" Young children can learn to speak three languages at once. They can also learn to make clothing choices based on the outdoor temperature.
6. Get a move-on. Remember that your child is most likely playing actively outside. We might feel very cold walking from the car to the school door in a suit or a skirt and heels, but a child riding a balance bike for 10 minutes heats up very quickly.
7. Consider cold pants. Snow pants or snow suits are essential when there is snow on the ground, but some children (and some preschool teachers) like to wear them as soon as they can see their breath outside. Think of them as "cold pants" and let your child keep them in his locker from October through April.
8. Label everything. Speaking of lockers, our lockers are small. When two children share a locker it's nearly impossible to fit snow pants, coats, book bags and lunch boxes inside. PLEASE make sure every article of clothing you send to school has your child's name or your family's last name written on it where it's easy to read. All black snow pants and all Spiderman gloves look the same when there are 24 children getting dressed in the hallway. If you forget, your child's teacher will be happy to loan you a Sharpie and some masking tape.
9. Embrace the terrific outdoors. Spending time outdoors is important for everyone's health and well-being. We do not have a gym and children may not stay inside by themselves. If your child is recovering from an illness and you don't want her to be outside, please make arrangements to drop her off late or pick her up early, depending on the class schedule.
10. Stock up. Have extra winter clothing on hand, if possible. The first Snow Day of the year is much less fun when your child has left her snow pants at school. And plan to lose at least one set of gloves. If you buy three identical sets of gloves, odds are you will have at least one matching set at the end of the year. Just in case, the Lost and Found box is in the office.
If you recently moved to West Lafayette from somewhere warm and lovely, I am so sorry! But seriously, you can stock up on all the clothing your family needs to get through your first Indiana winter at J.C. Penney, Sears, Target, KMart, or Walmart. You can purchase gently-used childrens' outerwear at Once Upon a Child in Lafayette.
Below are some examples of items your child will need.
Thanks for reading and bring on the snow!
1998 was a big year for MSGL because we announced our expansion so we received lots of media coverage. This week's Wayback Wednesday post features another story from the Lafayette Journal and Courier. On July 7th, a story about our summer camp cooking class filled the 4 Kidz Only page. (I love that the J&C embraced phonetic spelling!)
The photos are beautiful and the children's quotes, especially about date math, are really sweet.
Featured teacher, Revati Nemani is still with MSGL today in the Catalpa class. The children featured in this article are now in college. Are any of them studying to be chefs? We would love to know. If you know Alie Magnante, Daniel Plesniak, Asher Bogdanove, or Andrew Staiger, please pass this along. It would be great to hear from them.
And maybe you and your young ones will give one of these recipes a go? We would love to hear about that, too.
..and this was its steeple.
When we remodeled the former Calvary Baptist Church in 2000-2001 to become our Montessori school, we had to replace a few fixtures. The steeple was detached from the roof and lowered by crane to the parking lot below.
What do you do with a second-hand steeple? We gave it to a church down the road.
The demolition crew also removed the fiberglas baptistry by cutting it into pieces. All of the beautiful wood pews were sold. You can see one being used today in the school office. The colored windows were eventually replaced with clear glass.
This is what Building B looks like today.
Have a great Wednesday!


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There's no such thing as "off the beaten path" in Honduras, because in this remote country in Central America, there is no path.
Despite Honduras' attractive Mayan ruins and snorkeling, there is no tourist funnel of activities like you'll find in other countries. You travel there for the food, the Mayan ruins and the climate, but you won't have the same prepackaged experience as everyone else.
What to do
The Mayan ruins at Copan are one of the must-sees in Honduras. Although Copan is not as heavily trafficked or famous as the Chichen Itza ruins in Mexico, it has one of the most impressive collections of Mayan art in Latin America.
For a more traditional tropical vacation, the Bay islands are full of locations for snorkeling and SCUBA diving that rival any of their Caribbean competitors. Roatan is the most developed island in the group, but the others offer many opportunities to explore and discover a small piece of Honduras.
Getting there
Although it is not a marquee tourist or resort destination, there are flights into Honduras every day from locations throughout North America and Europe. There are also buses from Guatemala and Nicaragua and cruise ships often stop at the Bay Islands on their tours through the tropics.
Where to stay
Honduran hotels provide decent accommodation anywhere, but only on the coast will you find the five star resorts. The rest of Honduras is given over to budget places for locals and tourists on their travels around the country. Hostels are part of the tourism industry as well, although everything in Honduras is a bargain and your trip may be the perfect time to splurge on your accommodations.
Need more info on Honduras? Check out the message boards or read about misadventures gone by in a bootsnall travel story.


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