This week, Early Childhood students refined another food preparation skill, spreading! Students could choose from two choices of jam to spread onto a cracker and enjoy their self-prepared snack. On the art shelf, shamrock straw art and cutting a shamrock were new works, as well as sponge painting using a stencil. In the East class,...Read More
Early Childhood introduced new math units this week. West is now learning about money and identifying the names and values of coins while East is learning about time and telling time on the hour and half-hour. East students also added swaddling and diapering a baby doll to Practical Life; a wonderful care for other work!...Read More
We celebrated Montessori Education Week with a “Keep Calm and Read On!” theme! Students and staff enjoyed 5 special days of school spirit, dress up days, and celebrations. We love MSBG and appreciate all of our students, families and staff! To kick off Montessori Education Week, EC created peace people to add to our peace corner. Students decorated...Read More
We began our week in EC discussing President’s Day and highlighting some of our famous past Presidents. We read books and had some related coloring pages as well. This week in the East classroom, students matched bells in Sensorial, created beautiful watercolor paintings in art, and polished wood for a new Practical Life work.They also...Read More
Love is in the air as we celebrated Valentine’s Day this week with our classroom community. Students delivered their valentines and we enjoyed a special treat together. We also introduced the next geography unit on “my city.” We talked about how the school is in the city of Bowling Green and what other cities our...Read More
This week we celebrated our 100th day of school! The students brought in collections of 100 items from home to share with their classmates. It is always so exciting to see what everyone chooses! We counted out to 100 in many different ways and explored a special Skittles activity-using 100 of course! Our classrooms also enjoyed...Read More
Early Childhood enjoyed the winter wonderland outside a few days this week! Both classrooms used their senses to describe, feel, smell, and taste a variety of breads. New math units were introduced on telling time (West) and money (East). Students will explore time on the hour and half-hour using an analog and digital clock. The...Read More
Early Childhood began the week discussing MLK Jr. and his dream for the world. We read stories and enjoyed coloring pages. In art, children also painted a snowflake at the easel. Both classrooms introduced new Sensorial units! West used their sense of touch to explore baric: heavy/light and East used their sense of hearing to listen...Read More
Early childhood introduced two new science units this week! East studied animal tracks as they watched the snowfall outside and West discovered items that were magnetic or non-magnetic. Speaking of snow, a winter snow scene, cutting a snowflake and positive/negative snowman were additional art works and concepts explored. Both classrooms added the cubing chains to...Read More
Happy New Year! EC began our week with new cutting and tracing work, using snowflake shapes! We introduced a new Geography unit: My School. In East, new work on the art shelf included cutting a positive/negative space snowman, and using chalk to draw a snowy scene. Metal insets were demonstrated as well, using only the inset...Read More
