Writing About Montessori

Montessori Education Week is February 24-March 2. To celebrate we wrote about what being in a Montessori classroom means to us. There was a lot of talk about having freedom and responsibility. It is RARE we are all doing the same thing at the same time in our class so I documented this event.

What we've been up to....

My apologies for not posting a lot of pictures recently! We've been so busy! Here are some things we've been doing in class.

Flags of North America

Checkerboard (Multiplication)

Researching an arthropod

Making sentences with the parts of speech using the Grammar Farm

Long vowel practice. He will spell them then check his work with a control.

Making a poster of various triangles. Obtuse, equilateral, scalene, isosceles, right, and acute.

Practicing telling time

Preposition lesson

Addition Snake Game

Cave Art

Parts of a human body

Addition and Multiplication with the Small Bead Frame

Word matching

Foods of North America

Making -nk words

Researching a North American animal

Making a butterfly by coloring a coffee filter, squirting it with water, letting it dry, then adding pipe cleaner antennae

Checkerboard

Flags

Reading about Ancient Greece

Ancient Civilizations

Our class has been talking a lot about Ancient Civilizations. Due on Thursday, we will be turning in a small poster highlighting ways these civilizations impacted our modern society. Students can chose to research Egypt, Greece, or the Mayans.

Ancient Egyptians are credited with inventing paper, irrigation systems, and eye make-up. They also made contributions to the worlds of architecture and astronomy. Ancient Greece had the first democracy and theater. The first Olympics were held in Ancient Greece. They also made many great contributions to philosophy and war fare. Ancient Mayans impacted the math world as well as astronomy.

Checkerboard

I'll be introducing the Checkerboard lesson next week. I can't wait! It's such a fun multiplication material. Please view the video to see how it works!

Making Christmas Ornaments

Happy Christmas from our class! Here are a few pictures of us making the Christmas ornaments we sent home.

Tracking Santa Claus

Would you like something fun to do with your children while preparing for a certain jolly visitor tonight? Go to the below website to track Santa's travels. It will be a great reinforcement of geography and time zone concepts.

 Track Santa with Norad

International Night Photos

We had such an awesome time tonight! International Night was a big success. We sang music from Japan, ate food from India, and looked at art from China. We also displayed and answered questions about our research projects. Thanks to everyone who helpd to make it a success. Here are a few pictures from the evening.

Some of our art (diyas, fans, origami, and sewn pandas)

Singing "Sakura, Sakura"

Telling parents about Diyas (candles lit for New Years in India)

Explaining how we made the studded pandas

Telling parents about origami

She is doing a great job explaining about Smilodons.

She did a great job answering questions about Russia.

Parents enjoyed the presentations.

Some of the food we sampled (hummus, fortune cookies, seaweed wrapped crackers, sushi, and beef with Tikka Masala)

These guys did so well!