After collecting our peace sticks last week, students had the opportunity to paint them. As a community we then put our peace sticks in a bundle and learned that we are stronger when together than we are by ourselves. We continued visual discrimination with our red rods in sensorial, learning the vocabulary of short and long....Read More

We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend! We continued our fine motor skills this week in Practical Life through our tonging and fine motor baskets. Fine motor baskets include items for the students to manipulate skills such as zipping, snapping, opening/closing, and twisting. Our first dressing frame was added to the classroom to help...Read More

Welcome to the new school year! The students have been learning many foundational lessons and routines of the classroom. This can include how to use a rug and how to carry and return a work to the shelf. As our shelves slowly open, works are being introduced including practical life pouring, grasping, and spooning works....Read More

This week is bittersweet as we finish closing our classroom and saying goodbye to our friends and community. We enjoyed the last few days together with some fun activities including sharing in our favorite games and building LEGOs with Lego challenges throughout the morning! We had a special good-bye ceremony where we reflected on our...Read More

As our school year comes to an end, we have many classroom routines and traditions we partake in. Students take responsibility and ownership as they help close down the environment. They help clean and scrub their cubbies, polish our beautiful wooden Montessori materials, and dust off our shelves. We always take time to reflect and...Read More

Our new science unit was about life cycles. We explored the life cycle of plants, insects, amphibians, and chicks. In Practical life, we used a grater to grate soap and then a hand-whisk to whisk and make bubbles! We also made bubble prints for a fun art lesson by blowing through a straw to make...Read More

April showers bring May flowers! This week, we learned about flower arranging and made a tulip flower artwork using paint and forks! We finished up a beautiful Mother’s day project and the children are excited to honor their special Mamas. More Practical Life lessons included using a strainer and transferring pins into a salt shaker....Read More

This week children explored the concept of sink vs float as they experimented with a variety of objects in water! Our next science unit was all about birds. We identified many different kinds of birds, parts of a bird, and a life cycle of a bird. The children enjoyed one of the quails from Upper...Read More

We continued our polishing skills in practical life as we polished a ceramic bunny! Our new food preparation work was peeling and slicing a hard-boiled egg! In geography, the next continent study was all about Africa! We discovered what types of lands, places, countries, people, and animals are found in Africa! For some fun spring themed...Read More

We introduced a new Sensorial unit on pressure. Students used pressure cylinders to press their thumbs on to match the amount of pressure used. Our new science unit was all about the amazing human body! Students learned about and labeled organs, studied the different layers and systems that make up our bodies, explored a stethoscope...Read More