Ling Ling Goes to Charlotte

A very special panda bear went to Charlotte, NC recently. He got to stay with one of our classmates at Great Wolf Lodge and went to see Carrie Underwood in concert! Ling Ling had a great time!

Recent Work

Morning Yoga

Practicing with telling time

Golden Bead Dynamic Addition

Sewing tutorial

Grammar Symbols

In Lower Elementary Montessori, we do a lot of work with the various parts of speech. Each part of speech and it's coordinating symbol is introduced one at a time. The child learns to label the parts of speech in a sentence or phrase and will eventually label the parts of speech in his or her own sentence.

The 3-D Grammar Symbols

Grammar Symbols Chart

Eventually our work will look something like this.

Right now our work looks like this. As of now, we have learned nouns, articles, and adjectives. This is known as the noun family

November's Research

In November we are researching an animal from the Timeline of Life. These are some of my favorite pictures to take.

When you wish upon a star...

Here are just a few pictures from my family's recent vacation. We had a great time. Disney World is my happy place. Everyone is so cheerful, everything is so clean, and there are so many hidden secrets.

H and I in front of the statue of Walt and Mickey. Kirk Family Trivia: We are sitting in the spot Mr. Kirk proposed.

E and Merida. She was so much fun.

H tried but couldn't pull the sword from the stone. I guess someone else will have to be king of England.

Cinderellie

Work Time Pictures

Coloring the Asia map she meticulously traced and labeled

Dynamic Bead Frame Addition (addition with carrying)

Dynamic Golden Bead Addition (addition with carrying)

Dot game

Warm blooded and cold blooded animals

Origami

Sewing a bag for his pencils

Syllable tree map

Identifying landmarks of Asia

More Research

A few pictures of the kids finalizing their October research. This month we all chose a country from Asia.

Timeline of Life

I will admit that the Timeline of Life is one of my favorite Montessori lessons. It's a large timeline that shows various organisms and the periods of time they lived in. Kids that like dinosaurs love this lesson. There are a lot of other neat animals too like the Giant Kangaroo and Trilobites. The timeline was introduced a few weeks ago. This morning we took the next step. Building the timeline for ourselves!