Preschool
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 […]
Decking the Halls!
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! […]
A Short, But Busy Week
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
