To sum up the week, it was busy. As a class we are continuing the Arctic regions and exploring Penguins in particular. Wednesday, we took special care of our classroom to prepare for Parent's Night. Thank you to all the families that were able to join us. It was so exciting to see the children show off their works and accomplishments to you. The rest of the week was spent getting back to our usual January- ski week schedule. Also sorry this week was heavy on the pictures. We couldn't exclude families in our week's activities, so we have included Parents nights. We hope you enjoy!
Monday- We started circle talking about the 90th day. We are now halfway through the school year. We also introduced a Polar Region work aimed at the younger children to identify where each type of animal in a basket lives in the polar habitat. Popular works include Atomic Board, painting, spelling works, Stamp Game, Multiplication book, Funnel Pour and Penguin Build. We also had a fun time at recess exploring the frozen terrain in the playground and making ice bergs in the small pool of water. (Note to parents shoes and clothes will be wet for the coming weeks- thanks for all the spare clothes!) We began the Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bear Past Bedtime.
Tuesday- We had a later start to the morning thanks to a two hour delay. Students jumped right into work cycle and had optional snack. Despite the morning delay we still had Spanish class with Sra. Rosa and reviewed farm animals and parts of the body. After Spanish class we had a quick morning circle to talk about our class sharing for community meeting. At 11:00 am we went to community meeting hosted by the lower elementary. We shared with the school our Parts Of A Frog books, Stamp Game works, Multiplication books, painting/color mixing and our Push Pin works. After community meeting we had a brief indoor recess focusing on music and motion and then ate lunch. After lunch, popular works included funnel pouring, color wheel puzzle, penguin build, stamp game, landforms and a new work button: an adjective game. We read another chapter in the Polar Bear Past Bedtime.
Wednesday- Today was a very long day for many of our friends! At morning circle we reviewed the calendar and weather and talked about Parent's night. Work cycle was spent giving vowel blend lessons, adjective lessons, cutting works, color wheel puzzle, and landform map. Mr. Wolfe came to sing and do movement music with our class today, and we start practicing a song for Art's night. The children decided to spend most of the afternoon cleaning the classroom to impress their parents. It always amazing to see them really scrubbing table and windows (I often wish I could take a few home to help me clean my house!) We ended the day with folk and silly camp songs because it was too wet to have recess outside, especially after the children worked so hard cleaning everything.
Special note: I enjoyed the turnout at Parents night. Thank you to all the families that came and allowed their children to show off their hard works to you. It was such an exciting opportunity for them to show off their knowledge and acquired skills, since Montessori school traditionally don't produce much paperwork at this age range. I appreciate the effort each family made to return after dinner to school. I hope you enjoyed Parent's night as much as I did.
Thursday (Pizza Day)- Today everyone is a little tired from last night's Parent's Night. At morning circle we review some animals that lived in the Antarctic region and read Penguins, a Life in the Colony, by Willow Clark. Popular works throughout the day include, Map Mapping, POA fish, Initial sounds, Bank Game, Stamp Game and Bead Game Addition. In the afternoon, we read Where is Home, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.
Friday- Started the day with the date and observed that we are very close to the 100th day of school. Review Arctic Regions and read Fluff and Billy, by Nicola Killer. The most popular work today was cutting works. At one point, I couldn't believe how many children were focused on either cutting along the lines of paper or creating beautiful snowflakes. Art expression through painting or drawing was also very popular. Other notable works include Bank Game, Name tag tracing, dictations with watercolor, map making, Yoga poses, landforms, and the updated US Puzzle. (I exchanged the labeled US puzzle with a large unmarked and slightly harder puzzle form. The state are unlabeled, but its fun to hear who recalls where each state goes by its shape and name.)
Let's hope this weekend warms up a bit and the ice rink that was formally our playground returns to a safe play condition. See you all next week!
Ms Becky and the Preschool Staff.
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