Back in the swing of our routines and Montessori procedures! Its been a busy week learning about apples and the season of fall! We are learning apple songs and finger plays during line time. Together we chopped, stirred and measured to make applesauce. We are taking advantage of the wonderful weather and doing our pouring,...Read More
The lower elementary classrooms are quickly coming to some normalization. Students are learning what their expectations are and making wise choices. They are becoming familiar with what activities they can do and working towards completing the expected work. Earlier this week we shared our Daily Schedule with all families and I’m sure you will agree that we...Read More
Last week we learned about how to make maps. We learned that all maps are a birds eye view of a place or region. This week we got a spelling list of the 100 most misspelled words. Out of those words we had to choose ten to study in a fun way. Lately we have...Read More
This week, we experimented with Thermal Energy, transfer of Heat, and measuring Temperature. That exercise was good, because there was ice cream involved. We like ice cream. We are moving quickly through the American Colonial period, talking about what life was like for English, Spanish, and French colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries. There...Read More
For science this week we learned about landforms. We went in three separate groups and all the groups made models of our playground with some sand and cubes. We also drew maps of our landforms on paper. For writing workshop (writing workshop is where we write.), we did personal narratives and...Read More
The lower elementary classrooms are quickly coming to some normalization. Students are learning what their expectations are and making wise choices. They are becoming familiar with what activities they can do and working towards completing the expected work. Earlier this week we shared our Daily Schedule with all families and I’m sure you will agree that we...Read More
We continued welcoming our friends to our communities this week in Early Childhood. In the Peace area, we added the friendship trees and friendship strings, where children who feel they’ve been peaceful or kind to someone can hang beautiful objects as a representation. We also demonstrated the peaceful way to raise a hand on the line...Read More
We continued welcoming our friends to our communities this week in Early Childhood. In the Peace area, we added the friendship trees and friendship strings, where children who feel they’ve been peaceful or kind to someone can hang beautiful objects as a representation. We also demonstrated the peaceful way to raise a hand on the line...Read More
