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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 […]
A Bit Of Luck
This week our theme was “Week Of Luck”! The toddlers had fun coloring pictures of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. During music class this week, the toddlers all got to play a drum. Each of them had their own rhythm proving that we all march to the beat of our own drum! […]
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 […]
Toddler Art
The toddlers had so much fun during “Famous Artworks” week! We made Andy Warhol style pop art paintings! The toddlers also each got to paint their own small canvases. This week we introduced a new sticker reward system in the toddler class! The toddlers earn stickers for good behavior. This week we also welcomed our […]
Exploring the West
Exploring the West is a topic deep and wide as the Missouri. We read books on the cowboys who wrangled herds on the plains and the Native Americans who lived in the Southwestern pueblos. Other topics of circle time included the pony express, the building of the transcontinental railroads and the expeditions of Lewis, […]
Shapes in Nature
For Shapes in Nature week, we read three books: Jane Yolen’s Shapes Me a Rhyme, Betsy Franco’s bees, snails and peacock tails and Joyce Sidman’s Swirl by Swirl. All week during reading time, our students looked at the pictures and prepared for our special group collages that now hang on our wall. We brought out […]
Bugs!!!!
Winter began our week as we finished the seasons curriculum from last week. Then Tuesday we began learning about bugs. We acquired a set of Montessori insect flash cards and the students have been so entranced that we planned a week of classes around them. Maria Montessori highly recommended following the path of students’ […]
Asia, Australia, Antarctica
Continuing with our continents curriculum, we studied Asia, Australia and Antarctica this week. In each lesson we went over the concepts of continent, maps, countries and directions. We explored each continent by learning what land masses, waters, populations and animals live in different areas. For instance we learned that many people live in the warm […]
U Week
Ask your child what an ungulate is! During U week we named as many ungulates as we could think of every day and learned about underground animals and why they live underground on science day. We talked about insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals and of course, whether they are omnivores, herbivores or carnivores. Then we […]
