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Outdoors – Another Classroom
The children at My Own Montessori can choose between indoors, the art room, and the outdoors throughout the morning work period. They can come and go in between these areas as they feel fit based on their needs and interests. At MOM, we believe that all three areas...
Learning Continents – Asia
As part our cultural curriculum, we have been studying the continents of the worlds. This month, we visited the continent of Asia. We identified all 49 countries on the puzzle map, and we made books of the flags of Asia!We had a lot of fun learning about the animals...
Art!
Art comes in many forms and shapes. It can be a masterpiece hanging in a renowned art museum, a piece of music played by a symphonic orchestra, but it also can be a hat crocheted by your grandmother or a delicious meal cooked at home.At M.O.M., art viewing, art...
Winter 2023
By the time we returned to school from the winter holiday, our school turned into Winter Land. Snowflakes appeared on our windows, and works with winter themes filled our shelves. The children were building snowmen, sorting snowflakes, matching miniature snowflakes to...
36th Annual Stone Soup!
We held our 36th annual Stone Soup Celebration! Stone Soup comes from a folk tale that tells the story of two travelers who create a great feast by teaching the people of a small village the value of sharing. Since Stone Soup is about sharing, on this day, the...
Halloween 2022
The week before Halloween, the children found all kinds of exciting works on the shelves. There were pumpkin and spider toothpicks to arrange in a pot of play dough, bats were floating in the basting work, there were tiny black and white balls to transfer into a...
Apple Season
It’s apple season, and the MOM children were learning about apples. And what better way to learn about something than experiencing it through all our senses! We matched real apples to three-part cards, dissected an apple and learned about the parts of it, made apple...
A New School Year
The new school year has just started, and our students are already feeling at home at MOM! The children are happily exploring the Practical Life area pouring water, hanging tiny garments on a clothes line, transferring small objects, learning how to use a screw...
Summer School 2022 – Theater!
This year, the theme of our summer school was Theater. Each week, we read a story, made props and costumes, practiced our lines, and tried out different roles. Then on the Friday of each week, we acted out the story! It was so much fun playing theater and trying out...
Weekly Notes for March 7-10, 2016
Weekly Notes for March 7-10, 2016 Monday: AM: We learned our new letter of the week -u- which has very few objects, but an interesting animal, the umbrella bird. I confess I had to look this one up! We do not have any classmates with a name that starts with...
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