Preschool
The Rise of the Mammals!
The end of last week we were still knee deep into Dinosaurs and were so excited about our biggest project, the dinosaur print mural! After finishing up our studies on Dinosaurs, our friends in Children’s House 2-2 are now diving into Animals. We’ve been reading up on all the different kinds of animals, like mammals […]
May Flowers Bring Mother’s Day
We had a great week learning about the life cycle of frogs from tadpole to frog and making Mother’s Day bookmarks.
Mommies Rule, Dinos are Cool!
Children’s House 2 doesn’t just have great kids, we also have fantastic parents! That’s why when holidays like Mother’s Day roll around, we try to show as much appreciation as possible. All week we worked on projects in honor of our moms. First we melted crayon shavings between 2 pieces of wax paper to make […]
Love and Dinosaurs!
At the end of last week we said goodbye to the Human Body and starting this week, hello to Dinosaurs. On top of examining super cool books on the topic… … we also made dinosaurs of our own! And then there was the love part of our week… My husband John celebrated a birthday and […]
Turtles
As part of our Science studies about Spring, we are making a pond for our wall. By the time summer rolls around, the pond will be full of local creatures that we’ve studied. We began with turtles. In circle time our students were very excited to share all their […]
All About that Body!
The end of last week we devoted to Earth Day FINALLY finishing the globe we worked on all week. Then we went straight into talking about our bodies, not just physically, but also our personalities and emotions. One of the projects we enjoyed was creating life sized self portraits. We also created a new […]
New Beginnings and Earth Day
Changes have come to our happy Montessori classroom as we welcome new friends AND a new teacher… Taylor, Eli, and Ms. Olivia all moved up from Children’s House 1 this week and we could not be more excited for the additions! Our upcoming theme will be “All About Ourselves: the Study of Humans” but first […]
China
Asia was our next continent in our study of the world. While Asia is huge, it was easy to narrow down which country to study, because our student Maggie hails from China. She brought in a wonderful informative show and share about pandas and we read our classroom’s panda book. For folk tales, we read […]
Spring Gardens
On the Spring Equinox we began our Spring garden project. We started by painting four green squares using sponges, screens, corks and brushes in variety of shades of green paint. Then we collaged flowers and bugs with abstract shapes cut from construction paper. Now we have a vibrant spring garden to enjoy in our classroom. […]
Lost in Outer Space
We headed into our second week of exploring the solar system. One of the most widely enjoyed activity had to be the “moon crater creator.” We got the idea out of one of our library books. It was quite simple really. We learned the moon’s surface is soft dust much like flour so that’s what […]
