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

We began our week with a special art and peace project-adding a family picture to the peace corner family book! Students enjoy adding words and pictures around their family so they can enjoy it the rest of the year. We also began our Handwriting Curriculum this week for our kindergartens and younger friends ready for...Read More

We began our week with new practical life work – opening and closing and tonging one-to-one.  We utilized our fine motor skills to transfer along with learning the skills of open, twist, and zip.  On the art shelf, we created collages using our torn paper from our work last week.  The sensorial curriculum added our...Read More

Our Early Childhood East classroom has enjoyed a beautiful first full week of school! Thank you again for helping us during orientation week to establish our foundational lessons such as walking, unrolling and rolling a rug, using the snack table and the traditional Montessori lessons of grasping, pouring and spooning. This dedicated time is truly...Read More

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