Transition
All About Fairytales!
The children of Children’s House 1 learned all about fairytales and castles this week. They all had a great time reading and listening to many stories, including the class favorite “The Mad Tea Party” an excerpt from Alice in Wonderland. For art, all the children enjoyed coloring dragons and drawing Rapunzel and her long lengthy […]
Blast From the Past
The children of Children’s House 1 learned all about tie dye this week. Everyone pitched in and we all made our own tie dye t-shirts. We let them dry on the school yard fence and then took them home. On Friday everyone came to school wearing their colorful creations and it was a blast! Last […]
Splatter Painting
This week was number five in our Summer Themes Weeks. We looked at all kinds of art work and made our own group painting. It was a gigantic splatter painting and we had so much fun mixing the colors and splattering the paint on the giant piece of paper. It looked like a Jackson Pollock […]
Marine Life Week
This week is Marine Life Week in The Montessori Academy of Chapel Hill. All of the students participated in activities that had something to do with under the sea creatures. The children of the Transition Classroom made under the sea pictures with finger painted octopi and starfish and real sand for the bottom of the […]
The children of the Transition Classroom have had fun all week learning and growing. We are going over our numbers from one to ten, even learning to count backwards! We counted with beads and made number puzzles. We read Dr, Seuss’ “Ten Apples Up On Top!”We have reviewed the alphabet and are gearing up for […]
Guitars and Zebras!
The children in the Transition Classroom got the opportunity to play the guitar this week! Miss Sharon, our music teacher, brings her guitar every week and this week all of the children were given turns at playing it! We found that it was heavier and bigger than we thought, but it made such lovely sounds! […]
Learning the Letter X
Last week the children of Children’s House 1 learned about the letter “X”. We colored pictures of foxes, we looked inside boxes and we made our own x-ray art using black paper, white paint and q-tips. The results were amazing! This week we welcomed our new friend Dawson to our classroom. We are learning […]
What a Busy Week!
The Children of Children’s House 1 have had such a busy week! We said a temporary goodbye to our friend Maggie, who is traveling to China with her family. She will be back in a few weeks and we can’t wait to hear all about her adventures. We learned all about the letter “W” and […]
March 9th – March 20th
Children House#1 kids learned the alphabet “t” and “u”. They learned some words like toddler, turtle, tie, top, tortoise, tomato, tree, tea etc. as these words start with ‘t’, and also words like umbrella, unicorn, unique, under, up, as these words start with ‘u’. They made a tree using brown and green craft paper. All […]
February 16th – February 27th
We enjoyed a lot of snow and we faced some difficulties due to extreme weather conditions. Third week of February we worked with alphabet “q” along with its phonic sound. They learned some words like quack, quilt, queen, quail, quesadilla, etc. as these words start with “q”. We made quail and we had yummy quesadillas […]
