Despite the warmer weather this week, fall is present in the classrooms! Our practical life work has changed to a fall theme as well as some art work like fall doppers and apple trees! Both classrooms also continued using scissors in the classroom to cut paper, the next skill from cutting clay. In Sensorial the...Read More
Painting at the easel was one new experience introduced this week in Early Childhood. Using red paint, students could use the easel to paint an apple, extending our apple unit in Science. Along with this unit, we taste-tested different types of apples: Gala, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Granny Smith! This activity was done on...Read More
This week Early Childhood created their classroom peace bundles. After collecting and painting their sticks to represent themselves, they learned that we are stronger together as a community than we are alone. This very special bundle can be found in our peace corners. The care of ourselves and the care of our environment continued this...Read More
Peace education is a cornerstone of Montessori, and the children experienced lessons this week that explicitly teach these skills. First, our classrooms collected and decorated Peace Sticks. We introduce the idea of a community to the children by gathering each individual stick and placing them into a Peace Bundle, wrapping them together as a group. ...Read More
We hope everyone had a restful labor day weekend! This week the East and West classrooms showed many demonstrations in practical life including twisting, snapping, and zipping baskets. Dressing frames were also added to practice the self-care of velcro, snapping, and zipping. Tonging from one to one can also be found on the Practical...Read More
g Welcome to the first full week of classes at MSBG! We have enjoyed getting to know your children and helping everyone become comfortable in our classrooms. Our week began with lessons on walking safely in the classroom and practicing rolling and unrolling rugs. Grace and courtesy lessons were introduced this week, including raising a...Read More
