Friday, September 30, 2011



Sparkle and Flowerpot were blowing suds together today.
We learned about our hearts today.....Peanut is listening to Iish's heart.



Opening and Closing work...there is a little surprise in each item.


Tiger is really interested in learning his letters at present....it is fun to watch how your lips/mouth changes with different sounds.

We went for walk in the rain!



The children love puddles.


A worm rescue.....Tiger noticed that there were not too many worms. In the spring when we walk there are a lot of worms. We only found 5 today. Are they beginning to hibernate already? We talked about this as we walked.


The Tree House Gang on the loose.....the girls walk slow and the boys walk fast so I paired a boy with a girl and presto....everyone walked at a good pace!


Spindle box and name tracing
Peanut working with the triangle and circle trays. I have just presented these as puzzles for the little ones but Peanut was noticing today that some triangles were similar (right angles)some had sides that were the same length and one had 3 sides that were all different lengths.....

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sparkle painting herself.......

We have almost finished making outlines of all the children...we still have to do Wheels who was away this week. I am not sure if we could get Tank to lie still long enough to make an outline of him. We are painting them and putting them on the ceiling in our classroom....this is lots of fun and great for name recognition.



Iish painting his outline.


I introduced the leaf rakes this week.....the children are going to get lots of practice raking leaves in the next few weeks.
The raking supervisor....Tank is just plain "cute".



Iish working with the four seasons tree work.....he is making the Autumn Tree.


Tiger doing "blowing suds" work.
Iish was so proud of his cards and counters work....he wanted me to take a picture to show his mom!



Merlin whisking suds.


Flowerpot doing dropper work.


Merlin loves running his fingers among the birdseed in this month's sensory tub.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Our Fall Sensory Tub.



Sensory tubs are not usually found in a Montessori classroom. I like them because the children enjoy them so much and I have fun putting them together.



Iish was being very percise as he built the pink tower cubes vertically.


Everyone got into the Play Doh this morning for a while.
Iish cleaning a mirror....

I switched the easel for a white board....we just tape our paper on it to paint. This is easier for the children to clean and they can use the white board markers on it as well. I also switched our paint aprons for some old shirts....much easier for the children to put on themselves.




Merlin, using the floor bucket, to clean the little bit of paint that got dripped.
Flowerpot enjoying the sensory tub....

Friday, September 23, 2011



The oil truck came to fill our oil tank....very exciting!

We made copies of ourselves for art today



Choosing just the right colour
Flowerpot



Princess


Peanut


Tiger

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Wednesday and Thursday at Tree House



Our "s" object box


Flowerpot enjoys working with dry pouring work!


Wheels discovered he likes working with Bingo Dabbers!


We ventured into the woods for a hike today.


The wooly bear caterpillars are out and about these days...a sure sign that fall is here.

Thursday!

Flowerpot working with the pink tower.


Princess turns 3!



Happy Birthday!!!!!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

We had a Birthday!



Happy 3rd Birthday Tiger!

Monday, September 19, 2011

This week we begin learning about our bodies....today our focus was Our Hands

Iish working with the circle tray...



Tiger and Merlin did the Sink or Float work together....I love listening to their banter back and forth when they are working together.
Learning to put on gloves...



Flowerpot carrying each pink tower block one at a time to her rug....


Beginning to build the pink tower....

Baking Day!



We made Peanut Butter cookies...


Iish took his turn...


Then we pressed the cookies with our hands...
Our Handprint Cookies!

Friday, September 16, 2011

Thursday and Friday at the Tree House

Tiger and Tank sharing a little Play Doh.