Sunnybrook Montessori School

Montessori preschool & kindergarten in New Hampshire's North Country

Halloween Festivities

Sillyness!

Sillyness!

During our last week of October we began to talk about North America and the people that lived here before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the Native Americans.  We learned from Zeanny that you could distinguish members from different tribes by how they wore the feathers in their hair.  We will continue to study North America and Native Americans throughout November.

strip board

strip board

string instrument 3 part cards

string instrument 3 part cards

teen board

teen board

pegs

pegs

cylinder blocks

cylinder blocks

circle matching

circle matching

bank game

bank game

bank game 2

bank game 2

alphabet puzzle

alphabet puzzle

walking the line

walking the line

sorting tray

sorting tray

At the art table we began to make a Thank You card to Sue for coming in to play her viola and violin.  We will finish it next week.  The kindergarten students completed their fall lap books.

zombie and princess potions

zombie and princess potions

As this was Halloween week, we enjoyed singing and reading Halloween songs and stories.  We were excited for our costume party on Thursday!  We mixed up potions, made slime, colored crowns and pirate hats, cut out shadow puppets, and made Halloween art.  During circle me heard the story of Zeanny and the chocolate tree in her Abuela’s back yard, and mixed up some yummy hot chocolate to have with our Halloween treats.  It was such a fun day!

making hot chocolate

making hot chocolate

Halloween art

Halloween art

slime

slime

shadow puppets

shadow puppets

Halloween treats

Halloween treats

Niez

Niez

During Spanish we continued to learn about the parts of the body.  We made a wacky monster with body parts all mixed up.  It was pretty hilarious to see his legs and feet coming out of the top of his head!

wacky monster

wacky monster

charting rainfall

charting rainfall

Friday students learned a song about precipitation and condensation and monitored and graphed the rainfall during the day.  They set containers out in the morning, then measured the amount of rain each hour and recorded it in their science notebooks.

We did some drumming, and began to learn the rhythm of the “Medicine Wheel Chant,” a Native American drumming song, which we are planning to perform at the Winter Celebration in December.

This coming month we will be learning about oral storytelling traditions, making cave paintings, and enjoying our annual stone soup cooperative meal.

drumming

drumming

 

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