The second week of school at The Children's Academy proved fruitful indeed. The children bid farewell to summer and embraced the fall season along with Montessori materials. Below you will see children hard at work with a variety of Montessori based activities.
This Little Room student is working with a rectangle drawer from the geometric cabinet, providing not only a knowledge of shape but also the language required to identify said shape and the spatial awareness to acknowledge where it belongs in this activity.
Spooning work, found in the Practical Life area of a Montessori classroom, assists children with successfully mastering essential daily living tasks while sharpening motor skills.
The famous Pink Tower is an essential item in every Montessori classroom. This activity, found on the Sensorial shelf at The Children's Academy, is a building block to math and the decimal system. This ten block set is a self correcting mechanism, with cubes representing the concrete concept of numbers one through ten. It also allows for the use of language, such as terms "biggest" through "smallest". The pink tower, in its most basic format, is a basis for several additional extensions in the sensorial area of the class.
Lastly, the images found below are of Transitional Room students observing and exploring the nature basket in their classroom. Mrs. Benson was lucky enough to stumble upon clams, oysters, scallops, and a mermaid purse (a particularly unique find) when on a family outing at Sandy Hook. If any Transitional Room students attain nature items they would like to contribute to the class nature basket during a nature walk or outing, please feel free to bring them to school!
We, at The Children's Academy, look forward to another fantastic week of school. There are many more activities, presentations, and learning experiences awaiting us in the 2016-17 school year!
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