This week we are truly winding down from the school year and working on closing our classroom community. The children are working on scrubbing and cleaning the classroom chairs and tables. They are also scrubbing slipper boxes, book bins, and some shelves. As the week goes by they will be bringing home items that they will...Read More
As we close our classroom community for the year, we are working on preparing our environment for the summer. Cubby scrubbing is a work for the students to clean their space as well as utilize all of the practical life skills learned this year. Older students pair with younger students to work together on this. ...Read More
This week we are truly winding down from the school year and working on closing our classroom community. The children are working on scrubbing and cleaning the classroom chairs and tables. They are also scrubbing slipper boxes, book bins, and some shelves. As the week goes by they will be bringing home items that they will...Read More
As our school year comes to an end, we have many classroom routines and traditions we partake in. Students take responsibility and ownership as they help close down the environment. They help clean and scrub their cubbies, polish our beautiful wooden Montessori materials, and dust off our shelves. We always take time to reflect and...Read More
As we come closer to the end of the school year, excitement and anticipation begins to take over. However, there is still work to be done in the classroom. We presented two new culture units this week. Our new continent study in Geography is Asia. Using the Montessori Puzzle maps, students can locate and draw different regions of...Read More
Students worked on anuran conservation, essay writing, and research projects on early hominids this week. A few of our students have been digging deep into algebra as we wrap up the school year. We also saw a few amazing homework project presentations! Remember that homework projects are due this Friday. In addition, 4th-years got to...Read More
We introduced one of our final culminating practical life lessons, Making Cinnamon Bread! This work integrates many of the practical life skills we have worked on all year, including measuring, transferring solids and liquids, pouring, stirring, and scooping; in addition to concentration, coordination, confidence, independence and order. In science we began studying birds, and in...Read More
As we come closer to the end of the school year, excitement and anticipation begins to take over. However, there is still work to be done in the classroom. We presented two new culture units this week. Our new continent study in Geography is Asia. Using the Montessori Puzzle maps, students can locate and draw different regions of...Read More
Our new science unit was about life cycles. We explored the life cycle of plants, insects, amphibians, and chicks. In Practical life, we used a grater to grate soap and then a hand-whisk to whisk and make bubbles! We also made bubble prints for a fun art lesson by blowing through a straw to make...Read More
We began the week with the Kindergarten field trip to Wintergarden Park. This is a wonderful time exploring prairie and wooded trails and looking for tadpoles in the wetlands! Classroom work included butterfly symmetry dropper art and in practical life we added washing a baby doll geoboards. On the movement shelf, we added using...Read More
