This week students were presented with a new history unit on famous Americans. As this unit is on our shelves, students can learn about different Americans who changed the world throughout the years. Some famous Americas include the Wright Brothers, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, and many more. Students will explore different works...Read More
Students have begun work with fractions for our new Math unit. They have started using fraction metal insects to discover 1 whole, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/5. Later on, students will work to identify a shaded fraction and an unshaded fraction of a shape. As the work progresses, they will order fractions on a...Read More
Our new Science unit for the month is on the Skeletal System. Every person has a skeleton made up of many bones. Students are learning that our bones have three main jobs: to move, protect delicate vital organs, and produce blood cells in the bone marrow. Other activities on the shelf include learning the common...Read More
We experienced our first snow day cancellation this week. The students were excited to tell us how they spent their day in the snow! We have moved on to a new Word Study Unit. We are practicing our ABC order and using guide words to locate words in a dictionary. This will be useful for...Read More
After coming off a nice three-day weekend, the students were introduced to many new lessons within this short week of school. These new lessons covered units in Grammar, History, and Zoology. In Grammar, students were introduced to a lesson on sentence analysis. Within the Montessori curriculum, sentence analysis allows for children to extend their knowledge...Read More
We are at our midyear point and we are moving along quickly with new units and lessons. This week we have introduced new work to word study, geography, and math. Our new word study unit is on homonyms. Homonyms are words that sound the same but may be spelled differently and have different meanings. For...Read More
Happy New Year! We can’t believe it’s January, 2023! The students returned from Winter Break remembering the routines and working diligently. They have become very normalized and we are happy to see them working and learning. Each day they make a plan for the day and get straight to work. Most will choose a work from each subject...Read More
We are closing the 2022 school year studying the Months of the Year in LS and the Days of the Week in LN. In these units the students will learn, practice and review the order and the origin of these subjects. Along with this unit, we always study the month that we are currently in....Read More
Despite the busy time of year, our students have been keeping busy! This week, students were introduced to two new units: Zoology and Word Study. In Zoology, students were presented with amphibian work. They explored the nomenclature regarding the external and internal parts of a frog along with their functions. In addition, students also...Read More
Welcome to December! We introduced a new math unit that covers time. With time, students learn terms such as hour, half past, quarter to, and quarter past. In addition, students gain an understanding of telling time on an analog clock versus a digital clock. This skill remains highly important as they will encounter...Read More
