Blog week 8: Oct 16th -20th
"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear." - Dr. Montessori
Hello Parents!
Another sensorial week completed! This week we wore our colorful school tee shirts with pride,
explored classroom works and prepared for our applesauce cooking lesson. We also watched the lower elementary
class put on a play during the community meeting and shared some of our
exciting works with the school. Of
course our other highlight was this week’s amazing warm weather and morning
fogs. The weather is inspiring
some discussions among the children.
Monday: Today
was a class picture day, when we wore our colorful new tee shirts with pride
and took a whole school picture.
We also welcomed a new student, C******, to our class. We had morning Spanish with Sra. Rosa
and reviewed numbers. Another
student, C***, donated some fresh flowers to press. Thank you C*** for your wonderful birthday gift of flowers
to our class. Another seasonal
work was raking the leaves in the schoolyard. The children enjoy catching falling leaves from the tree and
discriminating the shapes and types of leaves. A child also noticed a very usual leaf that seemed to
sparkle because of mineral deposit.
I love watching these children make these discoveries in their own backyard. We ended the day reading The Five
Little Pumpkins story/song.
Tuesday: Today
Lower Elementary hosted community meeting and performed a play. Then we shared
with the school some of our classwork.
Thanks to our brave students for sharing! Our big work for today was apple washing, as we prepared for
our cooking project this week. Our
other exciting sharing was discovering this huge cricket in the
playground. We examined its shape
and counted its legs. At the end of the day we read/sang The Five Little
Pumpkins.
Wednesday: At
today’s circle, we read two poems, “If I were an Apple” by unknown Author and A
Was Once An Apple Pie, by Edward Lear (a poem in book format). Today’s work cycle included knobless cylinders and grating a
cinnamon stick. In the math
section, bead work and fall seasonal sequential counting works were popular. New stamp markers and new fall images
made the letter writing and art popular as well. In music class, we sang "Old Mac Donald" and played
music and movement games. We again
ended the day, with the Five Little Pumpkin Song.
Thursday: Today there was beautiful fog in the morning, I
asked the children what they saw and responses were as expected a low cloud and
such. But then a child described
the sun as ivory, and it was truly beautiful. The sun appeared an ivory color through the fog, against the
brilliant autumn foliage.
At morning circle we read The Apple Pie Tree, by Zoe
Hall. Work cycle had bead
counting (early snake game) as a popular choice. Sensorial is still very popular as the children continue to
explore the Broad Stairs and the Pink Tower with the marbles and with building
guides. Spelling and early sound
works (G, B, F) were also very popular.
Individual lessons on Landform Mat and Atoms also began to those ready
and interested. The afternoon fog
lifts and recess was warm and very fun. Our fun afternoon project was grating
the cinnamon sticks and peeling the apples for cooking. We also had a practical life
lesson on death after school as we found an injured bee and while examining it,
watched it die. We gave the bee a
nice burial and friends were invited to say a kind word about the bee, such as
thank you for helping the flowers grows.
Friday: During
morning circle, we read The Very Quiet Cricket, by Eric Carle, inspired
by the discovery of the giant cricket earlier this week. We also recited the “Whether The
Weather Be Fine” poem, by Anonymous.
Today focus was creating the apple pie. While students not cooking made great work choices (the
bell math game, atoms work, and early sounds were very popular), my
observations were by the things hot and sharp. A few students
had apple cutting lessons, using dulled knives to cut the apple slices into
smaller pieces. Other friends helped add the apples and other ingredients to
the crockpot and, of course, stirring.
We all had a lesson in patience (no, it will not be cooked in 5
minutes;). After smelling the
lovely smells of cooking applesauce all day, we had our applesauce tasting at
last circle. Most children thought
it was yummy!
Okay that is all for now, until next week!
Ms. Becky and Preschool Staff
School Picture Day
Leaf with sparkles (mineral deposit)
Community Meeting watching the Lower Elementary
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