We are in the final weeks of November, and fall is in the air. Anticipation for the upcoming holidays, family gatherings, and hopefully some relaxation is right around the corner. We hope to see you this Saturday for the downtown holiday parade;) We had a Math Unit lesson on estimation and rounding using our Squaring...Read More
This week, our toddlers explored sponge-squeezing work! This activity supports the development of fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and concentration. By squeezing the sponge, the children strengthen the small muscles in their hands and fingers while practicing controlled, purposeful movements. As they completed the task independently, they also built confidence, independence, and the ability to...Read More
Dear Lower Families, We have started to see great progression and development across all areas for many of our students! We have introduced our unit on fish onto our Zoology shelf, as well as continuing many individual lessons in both math and language. We have wrapped up our Small Moment unit in Writer’s Workshop and...Read More
Our toddlers practiced scrubbing tables in the classroom this week. This activity helps children strengthen their fine motor skills while learning how to properly hold and use a tool. The toddlers were highly engaged as they worked, developing a sense of responsibility and care for their environment. They also enjoyed exploring the sensory experience of...Read More
What a busy, wonderful week! We began the week tweezing beautiful sunflower seeds. This is a delicate work that relies on patience, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills to tweeze individual seeds from a dried sunflower head. The Montessori numerical rods and numerals were added to Math – providing a concrete, tactile representation of numbers...Read More
Hello Families, Here’s the weekly update from the MSBG Adolescent Classroom! Below you’ll find important upcoming dates, followed by highlights from our work together this week. In the Classroom History This week, we start our discussion of the Columbian Exchange and what happened on the global stage because of it. In order to balance the...Read More
Dear Lower Families, We have started to see great progression and development across all areas for many of our students! We have introduced our unit on fish onto our Zoology shelf, as well as continuing many individual lessons in both math and language. We have wrapped up our Small Moment unit in Writer’s Workshop and...Read More
Here are the highlights from this week in Upper: 1. The quail eggs are due to hatch! 2. The students are learning about coordinate grids. They are working on and finishing their coordinate grid projects this week…..look for them in the hallway! 3. 4th and 5th graders have a field trip to hear about the BG1 community book on...Read More
This week, we had many Sensorial works, including color box 3 for grading colors into light, medium, and dark. The geometric cabinet drawers were all open for exploration and vocabulary of the names of shapes. The large hexagon box was shown, introducing the hexagon, rhombus, and parallelogram. In practical life, the students used knives to...Read More
We have reached a new month, and with entering the first week of November, many students from both Lower communities have learned new information. In Botany, students have been exploring parts of a leaf along with different types of leaves. This week, teachers introduced an extension unit on the topic of leaves. With this unit,...Read More
