M.O.M. Blog and News
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...
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...
MOM news for October 23 – 30
Weekly notes: 10/23/15 – 10/30/15 Friday Midday: In my weekly art presentation I focused on Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and his art work. Mondrian was born in the Netherlands and he showed great talent for art from a very early age. He used to draw and paint alongside...
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