Early Childhood West

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Happy Grandparents and Special Adults week! Thank you for sharing your time to join your families and see what they are doing and learning at school! Our next geography study was on the Continent of Europe. We discussed many countries of Europe, what the flags look like, and some special locations and activities that take...
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Welcome back from Spring Break! We have enjoyed hearing all the fun adventures from the students! This week brings many spring works! Children used watercolors and a white crayon to create a decorated egg. Another painting work was using our fingers to paint for a fun sensory experience! Our next food preparation work was peeling...
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Happy April! This month our sand affirmation is “I am helpful.” We discussed what it meant to be helpful. Our plants are happy as students were shown plant washing for the care of our environment. Our new math concept was the estimation jar. Children make “their best guess” to estimate how many objects are in...
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Early Childhood had a special presentation from the Wood County Hospital about Veggie Basics. Students had the opportunity to make and taste a nutritious smoothie! Practical Life works this week included transferring pins to a salt shaker and polishing wooden materials with polish and a cloth. We demonstrated another sensorial extension of combining the pink cubes...
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We began the week discussing Irish culture and heritage as we learned about St. Patrick’s day. Children enjoyed making shamrock art using watercolor and a straw technique! Our science unit was all about transportation. We discovered that transportation can travel by land, air, or water. Many different types of vehicles were explored! The class has...
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Thank you to all the families who joined us for Music in Our Schools music class! It was so fun! In the classroom this week we added accessories to our hair care works to explore styling! Our next food preparation work was preparing and eating a pancake. The children spread the butter, poured the syrup,...
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We had many new units of study this week! In Practical Life, we added hair care where children used a variety of tools to take care of and groom a variety of hairstyles and hair lengths. This work helps prepare them to develop their own self-care routine and skills. In science, we discovered and learned...
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Happy Montessori Education Week! Our class enjoyed taking part in learning more about Maria Montessori and honoring all the special aspects of our MSBG community. We hope everyone has a chance to see our class poster in the foyer! We also made a banner for our local firefighters, thanking them for being our Heroes and...
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We began the week discussing Presidents Day and reading a book about some of our past Presidents like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Our next food preparation work was spreading jam onto a cracker! We added the tying dressing frame to practice our tying skills. This will help with any self-care tying like tying our...
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This week we expressed how much we care about our friendships by making Valentine’s and delivering them to a friend. We explored painting hearts by splattering the paint onto a heart in a box. Another art lesson was using paper punches to punch out different types of shapes. We introduced the listening center this week...
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