Sunnybrook Montessori School

Montessori preschool & kindergarten in New Hampshire's North Country

Telling Stories

landscapers raking up the leaves and composting them in the garden

landscapers raking up the leaves and composting them in the garden

Stone Soup

Stone Soup

We continued to learn a bit about Native Americans this week and the tradition of passing a tribe’s history on through oral story telling.  Zeanny introduced this tradition by telling us a story about when she was a little girl at her Abuela’s house and how her family got together to cook a special soup with ingredients that everyone brought to share.  This story was the first of many stone soup stories about cooperation, generosity, and friendship that we will be reading over the next few weeks.  We were also introduced to the storyteller Pete Seeger, and read his version of the Stone Soup story.

number rods

number rods

slime in the sensory table

slime in the sensory table

sound matching

sound matching

stamp game

stamp game

string instrument nomenclature

string instrument nomenclature

world map puzzle

world map puzzle

papa caliente

papa caliente

During Spanish we began to learn the names of many foods, such as papa (potato), ajo (garlic), zanahoria (carrots), tomate (tomato), cebolla (onion), and pollo (chicken).  We had a lot of fun playing the game papa caliente (hot potato).

At the art table we made clay tablets, which we will paint with pictographs next week, in the style of the Native American pictographs found in caves and on animal hides.

block buildings

block buildings

dice addition

dice addition

golden beads

golden beads

beaver skull

beaver skull

On Thursday we spent the morning at the library with Leah from the Appalachian Mountain Club.  She shared many animal pelts and skulls, including beaver, skunk, moose, bobcat, bear, and ermine, all of which we were able to hold and examine.  We discussed many features of different animals, such as the stripes on skunks acting as a warning for other animals to stay away.  Several students had the opportunity to “be” different animals by wearing various fabrics that looked like a beaver tail, an ermine in winter, and a bobcat.  We then used special animal track stamps to make animal track prints.

skunk pelt

skunk pelt

animal fur

animal fur

moose skull and antlers

moose skull and antlers

 

 

 

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