Preschool Room 1
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 […]
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 […]
