Tag: montessori
Bubbles!
This week in the Toddler Room, we learned about the letter F and the color yellow. For our art projects, we made fish and painted yellow suns! In music class, the toddlers had so much fun making noises with their boomwhackers. The weather was beautiful, so we spent lots of time playing outside! The toddlers especially […]
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 […]
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’ […]
Double Letters and Double Digits
SSSSSHHHHHH, we said all week. And also CH and TH as we practiced double letter sounds. We also read Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs Get Well and tried to pronounce all the dinosaur names with varying success. We worked with several Montessori math works this week and added them to our shelves. We are conceptualizing […]
Z Week and Earth Day
This week we reached the end of the alphabet with the letter Z. We practiced writing with the sand tray and Montessori sandpaper letters, learned Z words and read Dr. Seuss’ classic Put Me In the Zoo. Our science word was zoology. As we learned about everything from giraffes to piranhas, we used all the […]
Y Week
During Y week , we made Yo-Yos, read Y poetry and learned sight words: you and and yes. On Wednesday, we worked with our Montessori mathematics work and learned the difference between two dimensional shapes and three dimensional objects. We identified and labeled our three dimensional objects: cylinder, rectangular prism,cube, pyramid, triangular prism, cone and […]
