This Week in the Oak Room

This Week in the Oak Room

Such big work this week!  Several of our younger students started their golden bead work.  These layouts are so much fun and are such an integral part of the Montessori curriculum, it pleases us every time we see it!

Hopefully all of your children went home on Thursday bragging about their delicious smoothies.  After a discussion about what children in India like to eat, we chopped mangoes and bananas, added yogurt and honey and after a quick mix in the blender, we enjoyed a tasty treat before yoga.  I encourage all of our families to get their children involved in the kitchen.  It is so much fun for them, but also very meaningful work.  It builds their practical life skills as well as their confidence and coordination.  Just make sure they help with the cleaning too!

Bend, stretch, dance and wiggle.  When we are not able to go outside to run, we take time to incorporate physical activity into a lot of our  lessons.  We try to do jobs far away from where the materials are stored, so that we have to walk back and forth,  we dance and sing at circle.  Miss Darci even had a pretend sled right in our classroom!  So fun.  It is important that children receive regular “movement” breaks throughout their day, so when your cozying up to the fireplace this weekend, don’t forget to get those little guys up and moving!

Happy Birthday to Ava Katona!  She’s six!

Child quote of the week:

Ava Shirley:  “My dad has to dress all prettily for work. I don’t know why.”

 “When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing” – Maria Montessori