Preschool
Boat Building and Books about Water
What a fun week! First we welcomed 2 new members of our Montessori family… Ms. Brittany and Natasha. We painted and did many creative projects, like origami boats and boats made out of styrofoam and wood, things we knew would float since we tested items scientifically in an activity called “Sink or Float?” We had […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fingerpainting and Firefighting
We’ve been discussing community helpers this week and learning about how they keep our neighborhoods running smoothly and provide a valuable service to all of us. We’ve enjoyed many good books on this broad subject and played related games, too. For art we decided to do some finger painting and really did a great job […]
Flowers and Fathers
We spent a fun filled week working on some cool projects. First we made flowers out of tissue paper, egg cartons and glue. Next we made a catch all jar as a Father’s Day gift that also worked as a fine motor skill activity. Besides the jars, we made cards and wrote Happy Father’s Day. […]
Color Me Crazy!
What a fantastic first week of our summer program! We talked emotions all week and used colors to create cool art, but most of all we enjoyed each others’ company. We had our first Splash Day and it was a rousing success. We made gorgeous flowers our of marbled paper and egg cartons. After blinging […]
Wrapping Up and Moving On
We ended animals last week and went straight into… well, a holiday weekend and a short week that coincided with the last day before we start summer camp soooo we really just continued working our challenges and reading our books, but most of all just enjoying each others’ company as the days wind down before […]
We love animals!
We’re enjoying animals so much that we decided to keep it rolling. Our big project this week is a mixed media bird window display. As usual, it’s a multi-step process that’s taking us most of the week, but the end results promise to be awesome. Stay tuned next week for a the picture. First we […]
Frogs in Ponds
Our frogs are finally in our pond joining our turtles on their logs. Frog, pond and log all include the short o sound, which we’ve explored along with the other short vowels practicing rhyming words. We’ve also worked with the letters T and F making long lists of words together. With all the rain we’ve […]
