Our week began with a fun music class involving families! Thank you to everyone who was able to join Miss Jenn and the students, they truly enjoyed it! We also learned about peaceful yoga and managing stress from the Wood County Hospital presentation, and practiced methods of meditation. We continued fall-themed practical life lessons this...Read More

Sensory experiences were a big part of our work this week! The Sound/No Sound unit was added to our sensorial shelf. This work aims to refine the sense of sound while students explore matching sound cylinders, mystery bags of differing sounds, and using a quiet rug.  The quiet rug is a special work in the classroom where...Read More

What a beautiful fall week in EC East! We began the week with a new math unit exploring greater than, less than and equal to. Our first food prep lesson was shared with the students – grape plucking. This work is part of our practical life curriculum and allows the student to understand the process...Read More

Fun pumpkin exploration was a large part of our week in EC!  We began with pounding tees into a pumpkin and introducing the spooky sensory bowl.  On the art shelf, we drew faces on a pumpkin with markers and created spider web art. We also introduced pin punching to the classroom, a fine motor pre-writing...Read More

This week our class explored tray sweeping ants in practical life!  We also added the numerical rods to our math area, giving the students opportunities for movement and exploration of length, along with 1-1 correspondence and counting.  In art, we introduced color blending with chalk to create jack-o-lanterns!  With the pleasant fall weather, we explored our...Read More

It definitely felt like Fall in our Early Childhood Classroom as many of our new works were centered on the season and the holidays. In practical life, we explored gourd polishing and washers on a mini pumpkin – practicing fine motor skills. Also, sponge squeezing is a work that directly aims to strengthen hand-eye coordination...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 pouring 1-2 and hammering, both are...Read More

We began our geography curriculum with the first 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...Read More

The EC East classroom began their new Science unit this week, Apples! The students had the opportunity to sort and label different varieties of apples and explore apple nomenclature, writing booklets and puzzles. We even taste tested different apple varieties and voted on our favorite! In Sensorial, students explored our red rods, teaching visual discrimination of...Read More

It was a busy 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 introduces the continents and their names.  In Sensorial, we began our first special unit – Color! This work encourages students to explore and differentiate between colors, blending colors and shades...Read More