Tag: music
Indoor Fun
With all the rain we’ve had the past week, the toddlers haven’t been able to play outside at all. So we’ve had to make up for it with lots of indoor activities. The toddlers’ favorite activity is putting on music and dancing! We’ve also been playing with Play-Doh, coloring, playing musical instruments, and playing with […]
The Importance of Music in Montessori
There is a current emphasis on math, science and language test scores in more traditional education. Unfortunately this causes music and the arts to be pushed to the peripherals and sometime completely excluded from the classroom. This is truly unfortunate, as it has been shown that exposure to music and a musical education, especially at […]
N Week
To learn the letter N, we traced our sandpaper letter as a group and shaped playdough letters. We learned several sight words in circle time and with Miss Sharon during music lessons. We also learned about the planet Neptune. In Math we introduced the greater than and less than symbols and worked with the numbers […]
New Year, New Friends
Our Toddler Room welcomed four new friends to start off the New Year, Zoe, Bruno, Maggie and Lingxi! We are all learning some Chinese words from Maggie and Lingxi, who have come all the way from China. Everyone is excited about the work cycle activities and Miss Sharon, our music teacher, let everyone play an […]
1/20/14 — Music Class with Ms. Sharon
I am sure many of you have noticed on your daily sheets that we have music class once a week. A parent recently asked me what exactly this means so I’d like to tell you a little about it in case more of you are curious. Once a week, either Wednesday or Thursday morning, we […]
Weekly Lesson Plan 10/7 – 10/11
This week the children will be continuing work on “Practical Life” skills. Exercises in every day life from pouring water from a jug to a glass to folding, and carrying. We continue to work on our “Grace and Courtesy” learning about using our words to say “thank you” and “please”. Miss Sharon, our music teacher, […]
