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Birthday Celebrations!
This week two of the toddler teachers celebrated their birthdays- Ms. Lindsay and Ms. Mandy! The Toddler 2 class celebrated Ms. Lindsay’s birthday with noisemakers, bubbles and a special snack- frozen pineapple! We also made balloon crafts as part of the celebration! This week we also learned the sign language signs for “please” and “thank […]
Giving Thanks…
As one of our favorite holidays for crafts, we had a busy week in Children’s House 2-2. To go with our colorful vests from last week, we made equally colorful head dresses. We looked at pictures of Native Americans and talked about the history of Thanksgiving for inspiration. Here’s the result! […]
We’re #1!
We had a wonderful and busy week here in Toddler 1. This week we focused on, appropriately enough, on the number 1! We did counting songs like “5 Little Monkeys.” We are all getting great at holding up one finger, which we practiced while strumming Ms Alice’s ukulele. Our letter of the week was L. […]
Science, Snakes, and Silly Vests
What a great week! Ms. Maddy discovered a cache of cornstarch in her cabinets and decided we were going to do some science experiments. Only maybe she needs to read all the directions first next time… Experiment one was homemade moon sand. We started with the best of intentions, first gathering the necessary sand from […]
Living Things Need Light
The Montessori classroom is full of works waiting to peak students’ interest. While the counting rods are simple, they can engage childrens’ focus. Earlier this year, one of our returning students requested that we work with them as a group and this week several newer students spent time exploring their many uses and through that […]
Living Things Need Air
Before Halloween, we spent a week learning the difference between Living and Non-Living things. On Monday, we reread our books on the subject and Tuesday we began the next part of our science curriculum: What Living Things Need. Living Things need Air. When we’re working with a concept we revisit it a few times during […]
Welcome and Halloween
Our first week in our new classroom was a wonderfully spooky one. We added spiders to our tong sorting work, made construction paper jack o’ lanterns and a giant spider web of hand print spiders. To start our week’s reading we talked about real and pretend. We made a list of spooky things and talked […]
Children’s House 1-1 Fun
Hello to all of our Montessori Families. We hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend. Last week our class had a lot of fun; we celebrated a birthday and had the chance to see our friend “Walk Around the Sun” for every year old they were. We had music class and were introduced to new […]
Holiday Fun!
Another fun week in the Toddler 2 class! This week we started learning sign language signs! We started with the signs for “more” and “help.” This week 2 holidays happened to fall on Wednesday: Veteran’s Day and the Indian holiday Diwali. We learned about both holidays and for our craft we colored Indian Diya Lamps! […]
A sunny week full of kites and kangaroos
What a busy week we had in Toddler 1! The sun finally came out, so we took full advantage of the weather and spent lots of time running around on our lovely new Montessori playground. Our color of the week was purple, and we had lots of fun mixing red and blue paints together and […]
