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We Have a New Sign!
The Montessori Academy of Carrboro finally has an official sign! Over the top of our front door reads “The Montessori Academy of Carrboro” in bold maroon and green letters. To the right of our front door we have our Montessori shield with the classic “Pink Tower” centered in a field of light and dark maroon. […]
Countdown to Winter Break Begins!
What a wonderful, frenzied week of super busy preparations for the season’s festivities, not the least of which is my BIRTHDAY! Needless to say, we’re ready to party… Step one: Make the room pretty with holiday/party bling. Step two: Make art. We did a multi-day project […]
Birds Need Homes
As well as being obsessed with snakes and alligators, our class has a special interest in birds. We all can identify the mockingbirds who visit our playground, but we also spend plenty of time looking through our bird field guide, our National Geographic bird book and talking about owls. Last week, we read Owls Live […]
Living Things Need Homes
Living Things Need Homes and all sorts of homes. Home is such a vast subject, we’re taking two weeks to explore it. This week we read about the kinds of houses that people have built throughout history and how houses are built today. We made lists of non-living things we find in our houses. In […]
Living Things Need Food
The Thanksgiving holiday made a short week, but we read at least two books every day to make up for it. We read about the history of corn, harvest celebrations and foods that various animals eat. Herbivore, carnivore and omnivore is one of the easiest concepts for our students to pick up and remember. Some […]
Living Things Need Water
Water water everywhere! Living Things Need Water, but not only to drink. Some living things live in water. This week we read about life in a pond, a book about alligators because our class is obsessed with alligators and two books about the water cycle on earth. Some of our students preferred the realistic watercolor […]
Decorations and Celebrations
Last week in CH 1-2 we focused on the letter K. We worked with the Montessori sandpaper letters, talked about words that start with k and focused kangaroos. Some of the fun things we learned about kangaroos are that they cannot walk backwards, the babies are called joeys or as a few of us like […]
Birthday Celebrations!
We had two birthdays in our class this week! Our friends Bruno and Kate both turned 2! We had lots of fun celebrating with yummy cupcakes. This week we also learned the shapes square, triangle, rectangle, and circle. In music class we played jingle bells. And for our craft this week, we made snowmen out […]
New Bike Path!
What an exciting morning we have had at the Montessori Academy of Carrboro. Our new bike path is being built in one of our playgrounds. The workmen came this morning and started digging a trench, which quickly widened to form the base of the pathway. They created a wooden form to pour the concrete into. […]
A Week of Holiday Crafts
We have been busy in Children’s House 1-1 making holiday crafts. We dipped string in paint and glue, wrapped it around a balloon and waited for it to dry. Then we popped the balloon and Miss Ana Maria pulled the deflated balloon out of the dried string shape. The result was a beautiful ornament! We […]
