The children participated in a valentine exchange and it started with picking a friend’s name out of a basket, decorating a felt valentine with gems, pompoms, metallic paper, ribbon and buttons, personalizing it, and then delivering their valentines at a special circle. Happy Valentine’s Day! (Click for more information and full photos.)
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Art is a great way for children to express themselves. It also helps to develop fine motor skills, use of tools, problem solving skills and self-confidence. The Montessori environment provides open-ended art activities to help the children to explore and use their creativity. On the art shelf, watercolour painting, gluing collage materials, playdough, chalk with a chalkboard and various art mediums are accessible and available to the children throughout the day. (Click to read Dr Montessori’s quote and for full photos.)
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Lava tiles combine cause and effect with visual stimulation to offer the children a sensorial experience based in science. When the children touch, walk or crawl across the tile, the liquid moves and creates various designs.
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When it snowed a lot, we shoveled and sledded around and around, and made a mountain to climb and slide down. We played in the snow, made snow angels, and caught snowflakes with our tongue. We made the most of the snow and had wintery fun! (Click for full photos.)
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The Under 2’s favourite action song right now is “Sleeping Bunnies”. The teachers introduce various animals as well as animal sounds (Sleeping Tigers, Elephants, etc.). The children lay on the floor pretending to sleep and wait for the cue to wake up, hop like a bunny, make an animal sound or stomp their feet, then stop and restart the game with a new sleeping animal. (Click for full photos and more information.)
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To celebrate the holiday season, East and West Casa families gathered to sing Christmas carols and a Hanukkah song, accompanied by our music teacher Adriana on the piano. Some of the children also performed “Jingle Bells” on the Bells or Ukulele instruments. (Click for full photos!)
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The transferring activities that the children do within the Under 2 classroom help to refine their eye-hand coordination, strengthen the muscles of the hand and wrist, foster concentration, and provide the child with the opportunity to practice daily activities. All of these experiences will help them build the foundation they need to do more complex things as they become more skilled. (Click for more information and full photos.)
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The solar system is a very popular topic within the classroom. The child is invited to work with the solar system activity where they can learn about planets, asteroids, comets, and other interesting facts about space. In this image, the child arranged the planets in order from their distance from the sun, and followed up with their own drawing of the solar system.
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A great time was had at our Holiday Celebration! We sang “Jingle Bells”, “Vive Le Vent”, “The Reindeer Hokey Pokey” & “All I Want for Christmas” while donning festive hats or jingling bells. We enjoyed some refreshments and some time together. Thank you for your generous donations to the charity we supported this season, The Red Door Shelter. (Click for more information and full photos of the celebration!)
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We explored the celebration of the Lunar New Year recently through books and creative activities. We learned that the new year represents a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. We made lanterns and had the opportunity to dress in traditional garments. Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts’ai! (Click for more information.)
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Through practical life care of the environment activities such as sweeping the floor, washing the table, and cleaning up spills, children learn to take pride in caring for their classroom and completing a job, develop a high level of concentration, respect for their community, a sense of order, and increase independence and improve fine motor skills. (Click for more information.)
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Children love to take part in festive celebrations. When placing ornaments on the tree, candles on the Menorah, and learning about Kwanzaa, children absorb their environment and foster an appreciation of various holidays. They are also working on their eye-hand coordination, fine motor development, and concentration. (Click for full photos!)
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