Themes of the Week
(in addition to Individual Montessori Work time)
08/25: Grace and Courtesy / Ground Rules
- Learning Control of Movement-Rolling A Rug, Carrying A Tray, and Carrying A Chair.
- Learning Grace And Courtesy- How to Introduce Yourself, How To Say Please And Thank You, How To Interrupt Another.
- Learning classroom rules.
- Discussing what it means to be kind to others and what are “kind words”.
- Making a “Kind Words Chain” in pre-school lesson.
9/1: Grace And Courtesy/Ground Rules
- Reading the book, “The Bear That Was Chicken” and discussing with the children how they felt before coming to school and how they feel now about school.
- Lessons on saying “Excuse Me”, “I’m Sorry”, and “Thank You”.
- Singing songs and playing game to review what we’ve learned about classroom rules and manners.
- Having the children write our classroom rules and display them in the classroom.
- Read the book “There’s A Bird On Your Head”. Discuss how to speak to someone when we’re frustrated.
9/8: All About Me
- “ Who’s Baby Picture Is This?” guessing game. (Be sure to send in a baby picture of your child with them this week.)
- Discussing what makes each of us special: hair color, eye color, likes and dislikes, our birthdays, our names, our emotions, etc.
- Graphing our differences such as hair and eye color.
- Practicing saying our full names.
- Learning our birth dates.
9/15 All About Apples
- Read the story “Little Bear’s Star”- Story about an apple.
- Sorting apples by size and color.
- Learning the fractions of one whole and one half using an apple.
- Taste testing different color apples and making a graph, as a class, of our favorites.
- Learning the Apple Life Cycle.
9/22 All About Fall
- Discuss differences between Summer and Fall.
- Go on a nature walk outside to find leaves.
- Painting with leaves.
- Learning the parts of the leaf.
- Learning Robert Frost poem about Fall.
Letters of the Week: Try to find objects that begin with each letter wherever you go with your child.
8/25: Aa
9/1: Cc
9/8: Rr
9/15: Tt
9/25: Review Of All Four Letters
Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.
8/25: at
9/1: cat
9/8: rat
9/15: tap
9/25: Review All Four Sight Words
Things to do at Home this Month to reinforce our themes:
- While reading a book have your child point to all of the letter of the week she/he can find. Have them do this with the sight words as well. Play I-Spy using things that only start with the letter of the week.
- Go on a walk as a family. As Fall comes, point out the differences you see in nature, now that the weather is changing.
- While reading to your child, point out the sight words they are learning this month.
- Find a fun apple recipe to try as a family. Let your child practicing measuring the ingredients, assemble the ingredients, etc. Discuss with your child the other things that can be made with apples