A Peek at Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!
This week was all about Living and Non-Living. We discussed how we determine if something is living or nonliving. All living things need food, water, and clean air. Living things will grow or change, react to their environment, and reproduce. We practiced determining if something was living or nonliving and read the best book – I am Josephine and I am a living thing!
Also, in true Cherry Blossom fashion, we learned more by singing and dancing with our friend Jack Hartmann.
Preschool lesson continued our study of apples by reviewing the life cycle of an apple and parts of an apple. We also made a super cute apple craft! You can check it out in the hallway.
More Enrichments this week! We attended our first Music Class with Miss Lisa. We tried out Taekwondo with Master Barnick. We drew a beast with Ms. Varela in Art Class and hypothesized about sinking and floating with Mr. John in Science Class!
Happy Birthday to our newest 4 year old and our newest 5 year old!
What have the 3 year olds been up to in our mixed age classroom?
This child is working with the Tonging activity from the Practical Life area. Currently, we have small acorns to tong on our tray. We will change out the items used for tonging every couple weeks to keep this tray interesting to the children in the classroom. Tonging is a wonderful activity to encourage fine motor development that the children will need for handwriting!
This child is working with our Knobbed Cylinders from the Sensorial area. The children use the pincer grasp to hold onto the knob of the Knobbed Cylinders to take them out and place them back into the appropriate space. There are 4 sets of Knobbed Cylinders which allow the child to explore different depths and widths.
This child is working with the Number Rods from the Math area. This is a child’s first introduction to quantity as they count each red section and each blue section of the rod, using one to one correspondence. They are also able to visually see that nine is larger than three.
This child is working with Picture Matching from the Language area. This type of matching activity helps develop focus in the Montessori classroom. We will change out the cards every couple weeks to keep this activity interesting to the children. They are currently matching picture to outline which makes the activity a little more challenging.
Peek into Next Week!
We will be learning about PUMPKINS! Those round, bright orange, fruits that make us so excited for the First Day of Fall which is on Wednesday! We’ll be ending our week with our field trip to Ramseyer Farms! Miss Sam and Miss Tonya are so excited to see you there!