We have practiced the scientific method and filled the classroom with experiments, became a civilization, started growing food for survival, worked on computer Google Drive licenses, studied the human skeletal system, brought down Mr. Bones from the attic, had Jasmine’s ferret visit, watched a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach molt (fun fact: until their keratin hardens, they turn completely white),...Read More
This week, the toddler classroom worked on a few art projects, story time, and counting. They celebrated the festival of the moon yesterday learning about the Chinese holiday and eating moon cakes.Read More
It was a busy week in Early Childhood! Our sandpaper globe was introduced as well as our colored continent globe. The first puzzle map, the hemisphere map, was demonstrated and introduces the continents and their names. In Sensorial, we began our first special unit – Color! This work encourages students to explore and differentiate between colors, blending colors and shades...Read More
With class in session for a month now, many new units were introduced to the students throughout this week! Each day, the children become more and more acclimated to the classroom environment and continually show a passion for learning. The students were introduced to the following new units: geography, botany, and word study. In geography,...Read More
With class in session for a month now, many new units were introduced to the students throughout this week! Each day, the children become more and more acclimated to the classroom environment and continually show a passion for learning. The students were introduced to the following new units: geography, botany, and word study. In geography,...Read More
Our sensorial shelf looks very colorful as we introduced our first sensorial unit this week on colors! Students identified colors by name, matched colors, and learned about primary and secondary colors. Our blue constructive triangles were also added to the sensorial shelf to explore different size triangles and their relationship to one another. Designs and creations can...Read More
Our classrooms have been showing some normalization and everyone has been getting to the routine of things. We are pleased to see our students working peacefully. This week we have added to our Zoology shelf. We have introduced nomenclature (matching cards) of several invertebrates that the students heard about during the 2nd Great Lesson. The nomenclature...Read More
Our classrooms have been showing some normalization and everyone has been getting to the routine of things. We are pleased to see our students working peacefully. This week we have added to our Zoology shelf. We have introduced nomenclature (matching cards) of several invertebrates that the students heard about during the 2nd Great Lesson. The nomenclature...Read More
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 are getting into the swing of things in Upper. This week we studied matter and energy in Science. We also had some fun with water molecules and surface tension last week. In biology students created different “departments” for body systems, worked on the phylogenetic tree of life, and studied kingdoms. In spelling we are working on...Read More
