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A Very Festive Week

A Very Festive Week

| December 11, 2015

We have been having too much fun in Toddler 1 this week! With the holidays coming up, we are getting festive and decking the halls. In arts and crafts this week we colored reindeer for our bulletin board, painted Rudolphs with shiny red noses, and made fluffy snowmen. In music class, Miss Sharon sang songs […]

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Decking the Halls!

Decking the Halls!

| December 9, 2015

Here in Children’s House 2-2, we are busy making our room festive and beautiful for the holiday season. We’re especially proud of the tree made entirely from our hands and hope you take a moment to look at it! It was a three day process, but worth every second of effort!         […]

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Welcoming December!

Welcoming December!

| December 7, 2015

December is here, and we’ve been having lots of fun in the Toddler 2 class!  This week we sang lots of Christmas songs and decorated a Gingerbread Man!  The toddlers are working hard on their sign language and learned the new sign for “all done” this week.  We’ve also been working on our Spanish and […]

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Music, Mud and More!

Music, Mud and More!

| December 7, 2015

We have had an excellent week in Toddler 1. Our letter of the week was M, and our number of the week was 2. We did lots of neat arts and crafts, including making a “Mr. #2” and painting with mud! The kids loved getting creative and messy. We also played lots of music this […]

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December is Here!!

December is Here!!

| December 7, 2015

Hi Montessori Families and Friends! November is gone and we received December with a lot of happiness in our Children’s House 1-1 classroom. The activities for this month will be related to Christmas (we already made our snowmen hanging on the tree in our front lobby). We have also made your yummy gingerbread men that […]

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Feels Like Home

Feels Like Home

| December 4, 2015

We have now finished our first six weeks in our new school and it really does feel like home already. The children and teachers  have all put their individual stamps on their rooms with art work and projects decorating the walls and doors.  We have celebrated five student’s birthdays and two teacher’s birthdays! We have decorated pumpkins, […]

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Counting down to the Holidays

Counting down to the Holidays

| December 4, 2015

Last week Miss Hayley was out and the lovely Miss Kendalyn stepped in and taught the kids all about thanksgiving, did many crafts and overall had a blast at Montessori! This week is the first week of the month where CH 1 -2 focuses on math. We used the abacus and frosted mini wheats to […]

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A Short, But Busy Week

A Short, But Busy Week

| December 2, 2015

For the first time today, we finally have all our friends back in class. Between the holiday and cold season, we’ve had a small group every day since last week. But that hasn’t kept us from working hard and enjoying every minute. We’re in the middle of assessments in preparation for parent teacher conferences this […]

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Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving!

| November 30, 2015

Last week was a short week for us due to the Thanksgiving holiday!  The Toddler 2 class celebrated Thanksgiving by making cornucopia crafts!  This past week we also worked on recognizing colors with color flash cards.  In music class we sang songs about turkeys, and the toddlers got to play the xylophone.  On Wednesday the […]

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Gobble Gobble!

Gobble Gobble!

| November 25, 2015

We have had a short but full week in Toddler 1.  Because of the holiday, we focused on Thanksgiving this week, and next week we’ll return to our numbers, letters, colors and shapes. Using our pictures and handprints, we made ourselves into the cutest little turkeys you’ve ever seen! On Tuesday we had music class with Miss […]

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