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

Sensorial experiences were a large part of learning in Early Childhood East this week! We introduced the binomial cube, the triangle box, and the geometric cabinet. All of these works reinforce visual discrimination, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills. The next unit, My Family, was added to the Geography shelf, while Living/Non-Living was introduced as...Read More

What a great week celebrating Fall! The students had the opportunity to explore many different holiday works and practice their fine motor skills and concentration. Works included pounding tees into a pumpkin and a spooky sensory bowl. On the art shelf, we drew faces on a pumpkin with markers, made spider web art using a...Read More

Fun pumpkin exploration was a large part of our week in EC!  We began with polishing gourds in practical life, tray sweeping ants and washers on a pumpkin. In math we added the memory game, a two-person activity that helps develop memory and concentration skills, as well as problem-solving and cognitive abilities. Color box II...Read More

Several practical life lessons were added to the classroom this week! Pounding was introduced, allowing children to refine their hand-eye coordination and strengthen hand muscles. Changing a toilet paper roll, using a stapler and the zipper, tip, and toggle dressing frames were also added. These everyday works aim to develop fine motor skills and independence....Read More

This week we began our new special Math Unit, Fractions!  Students explore different parts of a whole to understand this new concept. The Montessori Fraction Skittles allow the child to feel 1, ½, ⅓ and ¼ and compare the parts. Our Practical Life shelves integrated the new works of sponge squeezing and the button dressing frame,...Read More

We began our geography unit, “ME and my place in the World” this week.  This unit is introduced at the beginning of the school year and is specifically designed for a child to recognize and explore parts of the human body and understand that he is unique! Works include Skin/Muscle/Bone puzzles and nomenclature, matching, books...Read More

This week, we began a new Science Unit, Trees and Leaves. Works include matching leaves, sorting types, 3-part nomenclature cards, writing booklets, tissue paper tree art and tree rubbings. A special leaf art was added using a dish brush in paint to simulate leaves on a tree. We also introduced ‘Floor sweeping’ to practical life....Read More

Introducing our Geography curriculum was a focus this week in Early Childhood.  Our sandpaper globe was introduced as well as our colored continent globe.  The first puzzle map, the hemisphere map, was demonstrated and introduced the continents and their names.  In Sensorial, students explored our Geometric Solids, teaching visual discrimination of size and also our...Read More