Preschool Room 2
Rocks Rock!
As it turns out, lessons on volcanoes and earthquakes lead naturally into discussions about geology. This week we “rocked” it out with a fascinating study of all the different rock formations that come from our earth’s crust. Some friends brought rocks in that we washed and put on display. Other rocks we used for art […]
Volcanoes and Vegetation
What a crazy fun week! Our new friend Samuel has a real passion for volcanoes, earthquakes, and other major disasters so I got a bunch of like minded books from the library to learn as much as we could and then decided to build our own. We also got to examine a hunk of obsidian […]
Puzzles and Pinecones
This week has been a bit anticlimactic considering the lack of birthday celebrations and holidays that we’ve gotten used to, but it opened the door for us to do normal school things, like arts and crafts projects and academic challenges that build our skills in writing, reading, counting, and letter recognition. Our big project […]
Exchanging Valentines and Turning 5!
The craziness continues as we go from one special occasion to the next. We shared Valentine’s Day cards with each other and baked chocolate chip cookies for our party on Friday, had a fun stay at home snow day on Monday, barely caught our breath on Tuesday and celebrated the twins’ birthday on Wednesday… We […]
Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day
It was a busy week of special days and we enjoyed every minute! First we decided we couldn’t let Chinese New Year go by without creating one of the best things about it… a Dragon! We started with recycled egg cartons. After cutting them to size, (a tedious, messy job!) we painted each tiny cup […]
New Challenges and Hard Workers!
Now that the weather has done a 180, we’ve spent more time at school and more time working our gross motor skills on the playground. One of our favorite outdoor activities all week (besides getting chased by “Abiyoyo”) was creating a obstacle course and winding our way through it, complete with midway modifications and added […]
Snow Days Fun!
Obviously the bad weather over the weekend made us miss a bit of school over the last few days, but those that came in (once we got school back open again) had no trouble keeping themselves busy! First I surprised everyone with a visit from my wonderful husband, John, who brought with him the friendliest, […]
Crayon and Marker “Melting”
The best thing about this week was that we got to meld two of our favorite Montessori classroom pursuits… Art and science. First, we decided to replace the snakes that hang from the ceiling of our room. That meant having to come up with a new artwork experiment that would be appropriate for such a […]
Operation Room Bedazzling!
There’s nothing more wonderful than taking good care of our special space by keeping it beautiful and well organized. After sending most of our classroom art home before the break, we found our walls were greatly in need of some artistic touches. Needless to say, we’ve been busy, busy, busy redecorating. Many of our group […]
Welcome back!
Three days into the new school year and we are already right back into the swing of things… But first I want to take a look back and share some of our holiday memories. On the last day before winter break, (the ever popular “pajama day”) we only had two friends show up for school […]
