Celebrating Chinese New Year this week was a focus in Early Childhood!  We created dragon masks and tails and had a special parade throughout the school with our West classroom and Toddler classroom friends. This work incorporates coloring, using art doppers to create the mask and tail, in addition to pin punching the mask eyes...Read More

Early Childhood was busy this week with so many new works across all curriculum areas! Our beautiful light table was introduced to the classroom. This work allows children to explore color and shape and how light refraction enhances our colorful, transparent mediums. On our sensorial shelves we introduced a new unit-rough and smooth. The geo-solid bases...Read More

This week brought us a new Science unit! Students began to study Animal Tracks and the science behind different tracks, patterns and habits. In Math, students began studying the cubing chains. This activity teaches the child skip counting which is preparation for multiplication. It also indirectly prepares the child to understand cubing numbers. It is...Read More

Early Childhood was busy this week with so many new works across all curriculum areas! Our new Geography Unit, My State, explores all the special features of Ohio. We also learned about the next unit, My Country. These works focus on the attributes of the United States and locations within our country. Our new Math unit,...Read More

This week brought us new Science and Geography units! In science we began investigating magnets and exploring their invisible magnetic attractions. Students could use different works to test magnetism and explored painting with magnetic materials on the art shelf. Our new Geography unit introduced My School and allows the students to explore their place in a learning...Read More

We began studying the traditions and customs of the Christmas holiday.  We explored the Nativity story, and students could recreate a Nativity scene.  Decorating a Christmas tree was also a new work added to our science and culture shelf. In practical life, we decorated a sugar cookie, spreading icing and using colored sprinkles.  Our class...Read More

As we approach the holiday season, our first cultural study explores the traditions and customs of Hanukkah. We explored a menorah, the dreidel game, and creating the star of David on the easel. Toward the end of the week, we began exploring our second cultural study of the holiday season, which included all the beautiful...Read More

We introduced an engaging and special Montessori math material this week-the squaring chains. These materials explore the concept of skip counting, sets, and multiplication. Younger students can explore them sensorially, while others utilize the number tags to label and extend learning. On the practical life shelf, we added lacing cards and putting on gloves and...Read More

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 writing, we added the inset portion to the metal insets.  On the art shelf, students could create...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. In sensorial, we added the binomial cube, giving students the opportunity to explore the foundations...Read More