We celebrated Valentine’s Day this week in Early Childhood!  On the art shelf, we colored, cut, and delivered a Valentine to a friend.  We also had a special book and class treat, as well as passed out individual Valentine cards brought from home.  In art, we added painting a heart at our easel.  We are...Read More

It’s been a cold couple weeks but Early Childhood has been busy with so many new works across all curriculum areas! The past two weeks have brought some fun, new food prep lessons. First, students practiced their pouring skills to make their own bowl of cereal and milk; then, this week we demonstrated banana slicing...Read More

What a short week to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and a surprise snow day! The students enjoyed being back together exploring so many of the works that have been presented this second half of the school year. Practical Life, Art and Sensorial lessons were the focus this week. Students were introduced to using a...Read More

This week brought us new Science and Geography units! The students began to study Animal Tracks and the science behind different tracks, patterns and habits. Our next Geography unit introduced My School and allows the students to explore their place in a learning environment, match Montessori work and nomenclature, and write about why they love...Read More

Welcome back!  We hope you all enjoyed a peaceful winter break.  We began our week reviewing our classroom procedures, including how to carefully use our classroom rugs and walk safely in our environment.  The students seemed very happy to be back in the classroom!  Our first new work of January was drawing snowy scenes with...Read More

This week we began studying the traditions and customs of the Christmas holiday.  We explored the Nativity story, and students could recreate a Nativity scene.  Decorating a Christmas tree was also a new work added to our science and culture shelf. In practical life, our class explored wrapping, addressing, and delivering a “gift” to a...Read More

We began the week with our next geography unit, My Home, which focuses on the childrens’ homes and unique homes all around the world. In art, fine motor movement and concentration were practiced as students learned the skill of paper punching. As we approach the holiday season, our first two cultural studies were introduced. The traditions...Read More

Happy December! We introduced an engaging and special Montessori math material this week-the squaring chains.  These materials explore the concept of skip-counting sets and multiplication.  Younger students can explore them sensorially, while others utilize the number tags to label and extend learning. On the practical life shelf, we added pennies in a bank, lacing cards,...Read More

We continued fall-themed practical life lessons this week, including feathers in a turkey and creating a cornucopia!  We will use these items next week for our feast.  We also introduced place setting, silverware sorting, and napkin rolling.  In practical life food prep, we made yogurt parfaits! Children had the opportunity to create their own special...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