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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...
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...
Weekly Notes: 1/22-2/16
Weekly Notes: 1/22-2/16 Friday Midday: Our art presentation focused on a traditional art form of the northern regions, like Alaska and Canada: called ‘Inuksuk’. Inuksuk or in its plural form Inuksuit, are renditions of a person that carries a message to passers-by by...
Weekly Notes 1/18-1/21/16
Weekly Notes for January 18-21 2016 Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr Day MOM closed Tuesday: AM: We had an early circle so that I could show the children our special art project for the week, painting a real fish in order to make a colorful print. At first the children...
M.O.M News for 12/7/15-12/11/15
Weekly Notes: 12/7/15 – 12/11/15 Monday Midday: It was a very exciting day for me: I started my week-long unit on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Watching the Nutcracker ballet and listening to Tchaikovsky’s festive music is a heart-warming way of getting ready for...
M.O.M. News for 11/30/15-12/3/15
Weekly notes: 11/30/15 – 12/3/15 Monday: Midday: It was so nice to come back to school and see the children’s happy faces! They all seemed to have a wonderful Thanksgiving spent with family and friends! Knowing that there are three weeks left until the break and there...
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