Sunnybrook Montessori School

Montessori preschool & kindergarten in New Hampshire's North Country

Mush!

MUD!What a glorious week!  We spent hours outside each day enjoying the mud and the sunshine.  It looks like our mud holes are starting to dry up, so we will miss them, though I am guessing you won’t!  There sure were some dirty kids the past two weeks. two little chipmunkslined up to jumpjumping over the puddlesmoothing the "concrete"scooping the waterdiggingloving the sunshineall of the balls in a basketbuilding sand castlesSt. Patrick's Day in the MorningFor Monday art we once again attempted to create some flowers for the Fundraiser Breakfast on Saturday, and then throughout the week.  There was not much interest, but lots of little green people had fun cutting and taping strips for shamrock headbands with Sue on St. Patrick’s Day. flowers for the breakfastSt. Patrick's Day shamrock headbands with SueWe arrived on Tuesday to news that the first two mushers had finished the Iditarod.  Dallas Seavey arrived in Nome first, in a record breaking 8 days 11 hours, and his father Mitch took second place 45 minutes later. Monday morning workwatering the plantsIs it balanced?finishing the hundred boardlocksmagnatile shipsweaving introletter sound game & word readingletter sound braceletsputting away the red rodsblue triangle shapes & number puzzle"Go, go, go"hundred boardweaving fishWe learned about Saint Patrick’s Day – who it honors and how it is celebrated.  We talked about leprechauns and how if you catch one, you get to keep his gold.  When we got to school on Thursday, we discovered that a leprechaun had visited our classroom.  We followed his footprints all over the classroom.  During morning meeting we came up with a plan for searching for the gold.  The students decided to split up.  One group went to check out the double doors where the footprints led, and the other group decided to follow the footprints back and check along the trail to see if he had dropped it.  The second group discovered it buried in a bin of paper.  Everyone gathered to help count it and watch it get sorted, then enjoyed eating their 3 chocolate coins. Where did the leprechaun go?counting the leprechaun goldlots of goldDuring circle time we did some ribbon dancing to lively music.
ribbon dancinggreen ribbon dancersSome Books we read:

Dogteam by, Gary Paulsen

St. Patricks Day by, Gail Gibbons

Clever Tom and the Leprechaun by, Linda Shute

Mush! by, Patricia Seibert

Songs we learned:

Michael Finnegan

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Down By the Bay

To Ope Their Trunks

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