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

  Our final food preparation this year was making bean burritos!  Students used all of their practical life skills to tong, spoon, roll, and taste bean burritos. We also added flower arranging on our shelves.  On the movement shelf, we added using a balance beam and, in peace, a liquid stepping tile.   As we...Read More

Our final Geography unit was introduced this week – My Universe. This is the capstone of our Montessori Geography curriculum and focuses primarily on the planets, solar system and offers a glimpse of our universe as a whole. The ten geography units we study aim to allow the child to formulate an understanding of “ME...Read More

Our new science unit this week was learning about life cycles!  We explored many hands-on works, including models of the life cycles of a butterfly, ladybug, chicken, and a sea turtle.  We investigated how tadpoles turned into frogs, made booklets of different animals, and made playdough models of life cycle stages.  Sensorially, we explored puzzles...Read More

  We began our next food preparation-egg slicing this week!  A special thank you to Miss Bev, who provided both EC classrooms with freshly boiled eggs for this fun work.  We tonged, peeled, sliced, and enjoyed eating our food preparation.  Also, this week, we colored eggs using a cool whip!  Our class enjoyed an egg...Read More

This week we celebrated the first day of Spring by making dirt pudding!  The kindergarten students prepared chocolate pudding; each child used a mortar and pestle to crush cookies to make “dirt.”  We used our practical life tonging skills to add gummy worms on top.  On the art shelf, we added spring cutting activities as...Read More

  This week began with a visit from the Wood County Hospital, providing their Veggie Basics presentation. Early Childhood students had the opportunity to learn smart food choices and help make a healthy strawberry-spinach smoothie! It was a wonderful treat! Students were also able to enjoy another practical life food preparation work this week, Spreading...Read More

  We began our noun study work, the farm!  Students use this beautiful, engaging work to label different nouns as they set up their own farms.  In math, we introduced money, learning the names and values of coins and bills.  This integrated unit involves real money, cooperative games, artwork, and literature.  Additionally, our next geography...Read More

Happy Montessori Education Week!  We loved celebrating Montessori with all of our students and families this week.  We dressed as superheroes, decked ourselves out in past decade wear, wore our favorite colors, supported our communities, and enjoyed a special PJ Day!  In the classroom, we also explored a new science unit on the human body. ...Read More

Many new Practical Life lessons were added this week in the EC East classroom! Students had the opportunity to practice their skills with wood polishing, using a tiny amount of wood polish to buff then polish our beautiful wood pieces. We also explored Grooming, part of our self-care unit. In Sensorial, we introduced the remaining...Read More