This Week in the Maple Room

How many apples tall are you?

Hello,

It has truly been spectacular September!! Time seems to have flow by once again. Our month started by celebrating Dr. Maria Montessori’s birthday. Dr. Montessori called her school the Children’s House and our room has begun to feel like home! Children have been taking more responsibility for their community and forming relationships with peers. There has been lots of group work going on this month. We have also been able to take advantage of the good weather and work outside on some days! We began our introduction to peace education with Dr. Montessori birthday. Do ask your child about Dr. Montessori, the different names of the areas in our classroom and how to say ‘peace’ in different languages. All of us enjoyed making sand paper letters in her honor.

Our friends in the Maple room have been busy this month with many “big” lessons: making poster and mobiles. We learnt about different apples – the colors, names and even got to taste some to see how different they were. Our children have been measuring their friends using our apple lesson. There has been much excitement about “how many apples tall” they are. We have been learning apple songs at circle and learning to manipulate our voices – example: loud, whisper, squeaky etc. We celebrated Johnny Appleseed’s birthday by plating our own apple seeds that we got to bring home. Maple room as a group has been enjoying our puzzle map lessons. We have been doing many exciting work with them including tracing, coloring and poking out continents/state and countries. We began studying about the continent North America: we all live here! Feel free to send in pictures/post cards any thing unique from your travels to various parts of this continent.

Working Outdoors

In the Maple room, show and tell is done if a child brings something in to show. They let Ms. Jama or myself know before circle time and we make sure they are able to share in one of the two circles. If more than one child brings a show and tell we try to accommodate both or sometimes we save one for the next day. We typically do not do one everyday. Good things to bring in would be: things the child has made, things they have found on a walk: twigs, rocks, leaves, etc. Additionally we have a nature basket and children can feel free to add to that at any time during the year.

In the coming months we look forward to continue build on all the acquired knowledge. We will continue learning about fall with our pumpkin unit.

Some Notes:

• Do stop to notice the beautiful tree across from our parking lot. Kids love it. Take walks with them and notice more!
• If it is your snack day can you please bring us some flowers for our flower-arranging job. It does not have to be a lot, just a small bunch, even something from your garden would be wonderful and appreciated by all our friends.
• Please check your child’s clothes in the cubbies and change them them if needed. Our days are getting colder.
• Children are welcome to wear costumes on the 31st of Oct. No masks or weapons please.

Have a great fall break!!

This Week in the Maple Room

Welcome Maple Room Parents!

We have had a wonderful August!
Our friends are settling in and becoming more confident and comfortable in their class room.
We have had some friends discovering how to take care of their environment and exploring new jobs. Our older friends have become dependable mentors for our young and new students.

We have talked about grace and courtesy towards others. Waiting patiently for jobs to return to the shelves or for a friend to be available to help. We have talked briefly about the coming changes in autumn. We have learned some fun songs about falling leaves.

We also celebrated two birthdays. Happy Birthday to Javier who turned 4 and Happy Birthday to Pratyush who turned 5!

We would also like to remind you that some of our friends still bring sweet treats and chips for lunch. Children really do enjoy our healthy snack put out during class hours. When they see their peers eat healthy they too want to do so. Please involve your child in the lunches they bring. We have seen over the past month a lot of them save their “desserts” for home.

The web and Pintrest have lots of fun and healthy examples.

This first week of September we will be celebrating Dr. Montessori’s birthday! Her birthday was August 31. We will be baking and creating sand paper letters.

Picture day is next Wednesday, September 10. Bring your best smiles!

There will be a lesson walk through in cosmic education September 22.

Just a friendly reminder to be sure that your child has a change of clothes.

Thank you for allowing us to enjoy your amazing individuals!