We began the new year studying the solar system, Antarctica and the polar regions. Our classroom is organized in areas like, language, math, sensorial (classic Dr. Montessori materials), cultural/science, art and practical life. Every month a new curriculum theme is implemented giving our students new materials to work with and ample opportunities to create meaningful lessons.
The power of the Montessori classroom is to present information and ideas rooted in real world experiences. Profound ideas like gravity and the placement of the planets around the sun can be explained in practical simple ways that give students a foundation of knowledge that is accessible and memorable. Our intent is to lay out the building blocks of knowledge in such a way that our students begin laying the foundation for a life long practice of learning and being curious about our world and their place in it.
Creating an igloo. 
Placing Asia on the control map.
Working with the short chains. 
Completing a language box using the movable alphabet
So much of what happens in the classroom are building on social skills, communications, grace and courtesy. We establish processes of how to sit in a large group setting, how to transition into eating snack, eating lunch lining up to go to recesses. Each of these situations teaches our students the importance of being responsible for themselves and to respect the space and place of others.
Using the brown stairs 
Parts of a fish puzzle.
Language box work. 
Alphabetizing words.
Learning numbers. 
Doing four digit addition.
Completing the 100 board. 
Practicing 1-10.
The intent of the Primary Montessori classroom is to help foster order, concentration, coordination and independence. So much of early learning is developed between the hands and the mind and the more young children can touch and manipulate materials, the deeper their connection to the underlying concepts
Sensorial material. 
Knob less cylinder work.
Counting 1-10.
Reminders:
Please provide a cloth napkin with your child’s lunch as we are using them as a placemat to place their food items on. We are also singing a song called “The Earth is Good To Me” before we eat lunch. You may want to ask your child to sing it for you:
“The Earth is good to me
So I thank the Earth
For giving me the things I need
The sun and the rain and the apple tree,
The Earth is good to me.”
Then we say “Bon apatite, you may eat!”
Practicing writing. 
Connect the dots to make a penguin.
Kindergarten information Night is via zoom this Wednesday (1/26) at 5:00 pm.
First Grade Information Night is via zoom this Thursday (1/27) at 5:00pm.
