Montessori Language Area Workshop
The final workshop of a three part series will be held on Monday, November 18th at 7PM. We will be exploring the materials in the Language Arts area of the classroom. If you are interested in learning more about the Montessori Method and how the foundations of reading and writing are promoted in a Montessori […]
Rhythm
This week we continued to learn about Native Americans. We have been learning a Native American Medicine Wheel Chant, so we took out the big drum and took turns beating out the rhythm. We looked at photographs of pictographs and discussed how stories were passed down orally and were also recorded on cave walls and […]
Telling Stories
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 […]
Halloween Festivities
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 […]