Preschool Room 1
Feelings and Emotions
This week has just zipped by in Children’s House 2-1. We learned about feelings and emotions. For our craft we made faces out of paper plates, yarn and google eyes. We drew on facial expressions with magic markers. We played the “Silence” game, finger play and sing along games. We painted shapes using sponges cut […]
Halloween Fun
Halloween was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Children’s House 2-1! We had power rangers, doctors, princesses and skeletons. We paraded all around the school to all of the classrooms getting treats along the way. What fun! We continued our color work this week learning how to make the secondary color green from yellow and blue. […]
Writing
This week in Children’s House 2-1 we learned how to trace and write letters during the Montessori work cycle. We learned how to write words as well and even make short sentences. We enjoyed working on water color paintings as well. Our favorite book this week was “Madeleine” by Ludwig Bemelmans. We practiced our cutting […]
Mathamatics in Children’s House 2-1
This week in Children’s House 2-1 we learned how to count in sequence from 1 to 20. We worked on simple addition, matching, number recognition and writing out numbers. In our craft time we made paper ice cream cones, writing numbers on each scoop! We also enjoyed painting colorful watercolors as well. We worked with play […]
Mathimatics in Children’s House 2-1
What an interesting week we have had in Children’s House 2-1! We learned counting in sequence from 1 to 20, and we learned to identify numbers from 1 to 10. We worked with simple addition and practiced writing the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on our mini boards. One of our art crafts involved a […]
Reading and the Letter “E”
This week we had so much fun reading! We learned how to trace and write the letter “E”, both lower and upper cases. The letter “E” makes a long and a short sound and we found many words and objects that begin with both sounds. We learned how to read simple sentences and observed sight […]
Week of Nature
In Children’s House 2-1 we enjoyed our weekly music lesion with Miss Marcia. Our students love to express themselves artistically, and music is such a large part of this expression. We read the stories of “The Tree Little Pigs” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. We acted out the stories and took turns playing the […]
About the Letter “Bb”
We had fun learning the formation of the letter “Bb” this week. We practiced writing it in the air with our fingers and on small chalkboards using chalk. The Montessori Sand Letters were a great help as well and we then traced the letters onto plain white paper using ripped pieces of construction paper. We […]
Labor Day Week
This week our class had so much fun learning about the Labor Day Holiday. We honored workers everywhere, including our parents. We learned all about the different types of jobs that people have. We made a collage all about the different types of jobs there are from pictures that we cut out of magazines. We enjoyed […]
Back To School
Our first week of the new 2016-2017 curriculum school year started off splendidly! We welcomed our friend, Abby, into the classroom. She has moved up from the Children’s House 1-2 classroom. We have been learning all about the sounds that different letters make and putting the sounds together to make words. In circle time we […]
