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Summer Program
During the summer months, the Casa classrooms participate in summer programming. We hope you have a wonderful summer. We know we will!
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Butterfly Songs
While learning about butterflies to prepare for their arrival, Casa West learned some songs to further solidify our knowledge especially of a butterfly’s lifecycle.
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Planting Seeds
Watching plants grow is a fun and education experience for children. Their enormous curiosity and excitement over anything new makes them a natural for gardening. Growing plant seeds with children teaches them how nature works, responsibility in caring for living things, and interest in environment sustainability and pride in themselves.
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Hundred Board
The Hundred Board is an activity that involves placing 100 white tiles with the numbers 1-100 written on them onto a blue board that is sectioned into 100 squares. Since the blue squares are blank, the child has to place the tiles (which are mixed up) on the appropriate squares until they have achieved the correct sequence. There is a control sheet with numbers for the child to check his/her work or to use as a guide. This is a great activity for children to learn sequence of numbers 1-100, as well as recognizing the numbers that go between 10’s, 20’s and 30’s. One of the activities a child may do afterwards is cutting and gluing numbers or writing the numbers out to make their own hundred board, just as Barrett is doing in the picture.
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Flower Arranging
The flower arranging activity is part of the Practical Life area of the Montessori classroom. It focuses on the care and enhancement of the Under Three environment. This activity encourages cognitive development through sequencing of steps. There are many steps involved and each one builds upon the other.
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Easel Drawing
Easel drawing is an activity that the children enjoy. This activity allows them to express their creativity on a larger scale. It also promotes their fine motor skills. In this photo, the child is holding the marker in a palmer grasp as she makes detailed lines on the dry erase easel.
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“The Provinces of Canada” Song Video!
In our Casa community, we have been learning all about the wonderful country we live in- Canada! We learned the names of each province and territory, their place on the map, as well as their corresponding flags.
Please click for more details and to see the video of us singing “The Provinces of Canada”. Sing along with us!
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Sign Language
Sign language has always been an integral part of Montessori philosophy/education. Sign language allows for greater communication, deaf culture awareness and creates strong neurological pathways in the brain (memory, literacy and problem solving).
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Mixing Primary Colours
In the Under 3 community, we have been exploring mixing primary colours to create secondary colours in a variety of ways.
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