Thursday, September 26, 2013

A few snapshots taken at the Elementary Campus from the first few days of this year ....


Preparing a snack for the classroom


Identifying minerals


Reading in the library


Serving friends


Doing some research


Counting to 1000 and illustrating the square of 10


Exploring words


Celebrating a birthday


Sharing a lunchtime meal


Playing outside


Our weekly school banking day


Making deposits and learning about money


Creating a map


Exploring geometric solids


A pyramid of squares


Focused work


Daniel telling a story


Collaborating with a friend


Focusing on building a clay structure that captures your summer adventures



Taking pride in your work

Someone turned our students into fairies!





Enjoying the outdoors at recess





Good friends.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Look what our hands have done!

"The hands are the instrument to man's intelligence." -Maria Montessori

Using hands to practice screwing (like her dad).

Using hands to feel shapes and size.

Using hands to learn the parts of a turtle.

Many hands to help spread woodchips around their play structure.

Using hands to roll napkins and to teach friends.

 
Using hands to compare and contrast size and dimension.

Using hands to build!

Using hands to give love to living creatures!

Using hands to trace and draw an apple.

Using hands to categorize--Land, Air, Water.

Using hands to practice the art of cutting lines!

Using hands to be creative giving thought to size and order.

Using hands to harvest tomatoes!