Sunnybrook Montessori School

Montessori preschool & kindergarten in New Hampshire's North Country

African Groove

Giant Snowballs

Giant Snowballs

snowman

snowman

What another great week in the snow!  The first day of spring brought some wonderful snowball snow, and the children made several giant snowmen and a snow wall out of snow balls.

giant snowballs

giant snowballs

 

drumming and dancing

drumming and dancing

We had a great week of African music and dancing!  We watched a video of African children dancing, and tried to imitate them.  We did lots of dancing and clapping to African music and took turns drumming for everyone else to dance to.  We learned a rock passing game and song.  We worked together to keep the rhythm of tap, tap, tap, pass, pick up, then added the singing when we were all working in sync.  The children made African head scarves, which they wore all week. There was great rhythm in our classroom.

African scarf

African scarf

decorating African head scarves

decorating African head scarves

leprechaun coins

leprechaun coins

On Tuesday as we were heading outside, we discovered some leprechaun footprints running around our classroom.  The students followed them and discovered a little pot of Costa Rican coins that had gone missing from Zeanny’s purse!  Everyone got one to take one home.

journal writing

journal writing

writing

writing

journal writing

journal writing

continents

continents

100 board

100 board

z, i, c

z, i, c

writing and art

writing and art

reading

reading

Building up those arm muscles and control for later writing!

Building up those arm muscles and control for later writing!

number rod addition

number rod addition

letter sound work

letter sound work

Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy

We celebrated our second birthday of the month on Wednesday.  Congratulations to our newly five year old friend!  We had fun singing Happy Birthday in English and Spanish, and enjoyed eating pirate cupcakes.

enjoying pirate cupcakes

enjoying pirate cupcakes

hugs for the cat

hugs for the cat

On Thursday we had a special visit from The Cat in the Hat in honor of Dr. Seuss’ 101st birthday!  We enjoyed listening to the story I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, then everyone had a chance to hug, high five, or wave to the Cat in the Hat.  Each child got to choose a book to take home.

African Bingo in Spanish

African Bingo in Spanish

During Spanish we pretended to be African animals, moving to the beat of the drum.  Zeanny continued telling us a story about a conejo (rabbit) and a lobo (wolf), which she will finish next week.  We also played African Bingo.

 

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