Preschool
Week Six: Sensorial Works
So much rain this week! With the decrease in outdoor time, we spend every morning in movement activities and of course, we enjoy our Friday dance party. Some days we were able to make it out in the afternoon, we also had a birthday party and music time. We stayed plenty busy and active in […]
Week Five: First Day of Fall
With the falling of pine cones and the autumnal equinox comes the fall nature crafts. We collected and painted pine cones last week. This week we made autumn leaves using a resist method, painting and blotting for texture. Our Montessori leaf works include opportunities for prewriting activities and identifying sets in math. Since we’ve moved […]
Week Four: Getting to Ten
We reached Number 10 in our daily count and made our first 10 bundle. A 10 bundle is a group of ten sticks held together with a rubber band and placed in the 10s place on our number chart. Single sticks belong in the ones place. When we make our first 100 bundle, we have […]
Week Three: Sorting
Three sorting works joined our Montessori practical life works this week. Practically, we want our children to be pleasant dinner table companions and handle spoons with ease and accuracy, but we also want them to build hand and eye coordination and fine motor skills for a variety of other reasons. Sorting works also help children […]
Week Two Begins with One
On September 1st we learned all about the number 1 and began our tens-based math. Every morning at calendar time we do a short group activity in tens based math which is also taught in the local school district. We also trace the numbers with our Montessori sandpaper numbers, one of our regular works. Throughout […]
The New School Year
Monday we welcomed five new friends to Children’s House #2 and began our new academic school year. Montessori education starts with how we occupy the classroom space, so our first week focuses on circle time manners, handling materials respectfully and classroom routines. We have plenty of getting to know you activities like forming dyads and […]
End of Summer
In Children’s House #2 the end of summer invariably means farewells as our kindergarten bound students leave for new horizons. Their last request was a second visit from the puppets who appeared during P Week, so we arranged for the puppeteer to return. Friends who had taken vacations also […]
Week of Luck
We got lucky during luck week and had beautiful weather all week. Also Miss Sharon returned from her summer vacation and we had lucky music time! Followed by a bright and sunny Splash Day. Several friends returned from vacation with stories to tell and our first new classmate joined us for the upcoming school year. […]
Fairytales Friend or Foe
So many stories, so little time. With a huge stack of library books, our class read fairy tales and folktales from all over the world. There’s art nouveau Cinderella and a updated Goldilocks and the Three Bears that points out what bad manners Goldilocks has and so very many more. We played knights and […]
Back in Time
Things are not the way they used to be and this week our students learned all about it. Each day we introduced an archaic technology from electric typewriters to dial telephones to yarn swifts. Our children found these objects as novel as our ancestors did when they were first introduced. During Monday’s circle time we […]
