Photos courtesy of Dorte.
Author: rickweller
Peter played in the snow…
Many thanks to one of our wonderful parents for sharing a story with our students this morning, and helping with a craft to illustrate it. First, we read about how Peter woke up on a snowy day and went outside to play. Then, each student made a 3D illustration based on the Peter’s fun day.
Rocks, rocks, rocks!
This morning we had a visitor–one of our Grandpas–and he shared his rock collection with us! There were lava rocks, crystals, fossils and even a meteorite!
Our butterflies
Tuesday, Feb 16: We released the butterflies to nature this morning, and all five flew away! Saturday, Feb 13: While at school this afternoon, Rick noted the last butterfly has emerged! It’s the smallest of the five. Wednesday, Feb 10: This morning we arrived to the third butterfly and the fourth, the smallest one yet, secretly and […]
“Panda”monium
As any teacher at any level knows, one of the keys is to find ways to interest the students in the topic at hand. Who doesn’t love panda bears? For many of our students, our pandas help bridge from counting out loud to counting objects to “labeling” the sets with the number. For pre-school age children, […]
…as if I did not exist…
One of our favorite Montessori quotes is “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ ” Last week we welcomed back our young students from Winter Break, including three new faces to our class roster. Despite the time […]
Holiday sing-along happiness
We had a wonderful time this morning at our family sing-along. Special thanks to Mrs Laura for the wonderful work preparing our young scholars for the songs. Happy Holidays to all! Student art on our door for the holidays! Spinning dreidels while everyone else sings “Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel…” We’re sad to say goodbye to one […]
A Hanukah celebration
Earlier this week, one of our parents visited school to talk to our little students learned about Hanukah. We learned all about the story of the lights, and we lit all eight candles on two (yes, two!) menorahs.
Nuestros árboles de navidad
The past few weeks we have been learning our colors en espanol. So far, we know well rojo, naranja, amarillo y verde. Makes for some nice Christmas tree collages, eh?
We love our new works
We regularly add items to our Amazon Wish List, and even though we do the “adding” it’s still a surprise when they arrive. Big thanks to everyone who shops for us. Check out our latest addition to the classroom: Five rollers that each form 16 different words for our young readers!
A giant, yellow inchworm
Thursday afternoon, a giant, yellow inchworm was found in our school. The four and five-year olds who found it reported that it had 75 yellow segments, two antennae and a blue tail. It may also have been surrounded by butterflies and dragonflies, but sources disagreed on the identity of the flying insects. The witnesses also voiced […]
Control of Error in the Montessori classroom
An often overlooked aspect of the Montessori Method is the control of error built into many Montessori works. The design of the work is such that the child learns from their mistakes. By so doing, the child must work through corrections until success is achieved. After repetition of these tasks, the young child is able […]