Practical life materials give young children the opportunity to practice real life tasks by imitating experiences they see in their environment. Their strong desire for repetition helps them to develop and improve refinement of the hand, wrist and arm, independence, concentration, hand eye co-ordination, order of sequence, and fine motor skills, while developing life-long skills. (Please click for more photos and information.)
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Practical Life activities are the foundation of the Montessori environment. These activities allow the children to develop control and coordination of movement, awareness of their environment, orderly thought patterns, independent work habits, responsibility, and many other characteristics which can be attained through spontaneous, purposeful work. (Please click for more information and photos.)
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A child in a Montessori class learns mathematical facts by actually performing the operations with concrete materials, such as this division board. Green skittles, which represent the divisor, and the beads, which represent the quantity, are used for simple division. (Please click for more information and the full photos.)
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Our Casa summer program includes various fun themed days. We had two themes and a treat per week. We had themes such as Beach Day, Toronto Sports Team Day, Pajama Day, Soca/Reggae Dance Party, Teddy Bear Picnic Day and Face Paint Day! (Please click for more information.)
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In this week’s summer program, we are covering the fascinating topic of Space! We’ve had great discussions about the planets within our solar system, the sun, moon phases, and astronauts, in addition to crafts, activities, songs and games. The two drawings are of Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut!
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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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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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The children took turns digging holes and delicately placing the flowers in. They learned that they had to cover the roots with soil and diligently water them so that the flowers continue to thrive. We have enjoyed watching the flowers bloom and bring colour and life to the playground.
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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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Empathy training is an important part of our Montessori classroom. Through the Second Step early learning program, we continuously engage the children in social emotional learning through tools such as puppets, picture cards, songs, role playing, and poems are used to build empathy.
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