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Magical Experiments
This week our Summer Theme was Magic Tricks! We did not know many magic tricks so we incorporated a little bit of Science Experiments. We began our week discussing what Magic is and some common Magic Tricks. We talked in great detail about pulling a rabbit out of a hat. We even made a craft […]
Hocus Pocus Alakazam
Abracadabra! This week we learned all about MAGIC!! We were mystified with Ms. Olivia’s card tricks, and colored bunnies coming out of magic hats. We even made our own magic hats and wands. We also reviewed our letters, months, and days of the week. We had a magical week full of fun, learning, and mystery.
Abracadabra!
What a fun week of magic! We read every book in the classroom with a magic theme (There were a surprising number of them, too. I never realized!) and did a lot of reading comprehension with them. We also created magic wands out of cardboard, old glow sticks, ribbon, paint and tape. We also did […]
The Old North State
Our theme this week was “All About North Carolina” and the toddlers in the Toddler 2 class enjoyed learning all about the state we live in! We listened to the state song, and learned about the state bird (cardinal), state flower (dogwood), state tree (pine), state mammal (eastern grey squirrel), state gemstone (emerald), state insect […]
Tar Heel State Love!
Even I learned something this week as we explored all things North Carolina… including our flag, our symbols, and our traditions. Our big group project of the week was creating an authentic looking North Carolina flag. We found a good image online and then rolled out a large sheet of paper and sectioned off the […]
Planes,Dogwoods,Cardinals,and everything NC
This week we welcomed a new teacher to our classroom, while Ms. Tori is away getting married!!! Ms. Brittany has helped us celebrate our wonderful state of North Carolina. We learned about the first flight, and made paper airplanes. We also beautified the classroom with colorful NC dogwood flowers and Cardinals. We all love our […]
All About North Carolina!
This week our Summer Theme was All about NC. The Toddlers knew so much about Carolina and constantly talked about Carolina Blue! We began our week listening to the State Song and the State Seal. We then discussed our State Bird, The Cardinal and State Flower, Dogwood. For art, we made handprint cardinals that were […]
Rocking and Rolling!
We had so much fun this week with our Music Of The Decades theme! We listened to music from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and had so much fun dancing! For our craft this week, we tie-dyed T-shirts! It was so much fun, and our new shirts look so cool. This week we […]
Five Minutes of Funk
What a cool week looking back on music through the ages! We studied the science of music, watched a cool video that took us on a musical journey from 500 BC to 201o. Wow, are we ever glad we’re part of this generation, especially when Ms. Maddy showed us 8 tracks and records and we […]
Tie-dye T-shirts and Tenacious Twirling
Montessori Academy was rocking out this week with music spanning from the 1920’s to todays hits. The whole week each class filled the rooms with different decades greatest hits and one hit wonders. The children danced and sang the whole time. The most popular genre of music in our class was Rock n’ Roll. They loved […]
