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Sewing – A Practical Life Work
There is something very calming and satisfactory about sewing. Whether it is the fact that the children are trusted to use real grown-up tools, including a very sharp and prickly needle, a threader, and beautiful bright thread, or the process of pushing the needle in...
Mixed-Aged Classroom
Being able to witness the ever-changing role of a child throughout their three years in a mixed-age classroom, is one of the most wonderful experiences in a Montessori preschool. When a child enters our school at 32 months, they are the youngest student who is...
Big Works
As our afternooners are developing their skills in all curricular areas, they are also expanding their ability to concentrate and stay engaged with a work over an extensive period of time. The works they are choosing have multiple steps and may take several days to...
Process versus Product
Process versus Product – An art project where the experience matters more than the final productAt our school, we promote and value process over product. When the children are engaged with the process, they stay focused for an extensive period of time and develop a...
Math
In our math curriculum, we focus on number recognition 0-9, then 1-10, the teen numbers, and finally 1-100. When the children become comfortable recognizing their numbers and associating quantity and numerals, we introduce them to simple operations, such as addition,...
The Peace Table
As part of our Grace and Courtesy Curriculum, at the beginning of each school year, we present the Peace Table. After having a group discussion on what peace means and how we strive each day to maintain peace both in our body and mind, I read a recitation called ‘I...
New School Year, New Beginnings
With the new school year starting and our newest and youngest students joining our school, we are establishing the ground rules and routines and we are focusing on grace and courtesy lessons, which are the foundations of a “normalized” classroom. In the “normalized”...
Summer School 2023 – Cooking up a Story
This summer’s theme was “Cooking Up a Story”. Each day, we read a book that was related to a dish or a recipe, and then we spent the morning chopping, stirring, cooking, frying, dicing, and tasting, until we recreated the delicious dish described in the book just in...
Vermicomposting
Our assistant teacher, Jamie, introduced vermicomposting at our school! We learned that vermicomposting is a method of using red worms to turn food waste into fertilizer. We learned about the life cycle of the worm and what it takes to make a good home for the...
Spring
Spring inspires so many aspects of learning – the obvious changes around us cannot go unnoticed, which very conveniently lend themselves into lessons and discussions on a great variety of topics. One of the things we do is talk about the life cycle of a seed and plant...
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