All students can learn and succeed but not all at the same day and at the same time. More than the awards they are receiving this afternoon; let us celebrate the effort your children have given to accomplish the school year. Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," according to Gardner (1991).

1. Montessori Children’s House - Brent Ville

2. Children who are strongly
VERBAL-LINGUISTIC think in
words. They love reading,
writing, telling stories, and the
like.

3. Children who are strongly
LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
think by reasoning,
experimenting, questioning,
figuring out puzzles, and
calculating.

4. Children who are strongly
VISUAL-SPATIAL think in
images and pictures. They love
designing, drawing, visualizing,
or doodling.

5. Children who are strongly
BODILY-KINESTHETIC think
through somatic sensations.
They love dancing, running,
jumping, building, and
gesturing.

6. Children who are strongly
MUSICAL-RHYTHMIC think via
rhythms and melodies. They
love singing, humming, tapping
their feet and hands or just
simply listening.

7. Children who are strongly
INTERPERSONAL think by
bouncing ideas off other
people, leading, organizing,
relating, manipulating or
mediating.

8. Children who are strongly
INTRAPERSONAL think deeply
inside themselves. They love
setting goals, meditating,
dreaming, or being quiet.

9. Children who are strongly
NATURALISTIC think in cognizance
with nature. They understand and
recognize various living things and
love analysing, classifying, and
recognizing patterns in these
things.