What a cold week we have had.....everyday it was just too cold to go outside.  We spent some time each morning doing lots of movement songs and rhymes.  Our learning focus this week was dinosaurs and the two favourite works were the dinosaur activity tub and making dinosaur tracks in Play Doh.  We had a lot of fun measuring the length of some dinosaurs and comparing them to our 1000 chain.

Learning to do buttons and zippers with the dressing frames...

Serving apple slices to his friends....

Happy Birthday Littlefoot.....

Littlefoot loves to paint.....

Following the pattern cards with the Wedgits...

Working with geometry cabinet trays....

Showing big brother how to match the continents...

A little rest with Jake.....

Working on the hanging bead frame together.....

cutting vegetables for our lunch soup....

Princess cleaning our easel.....

Making a maze with number rods...

Working with cylinder blocks

They were so proud when they finished this work...they asked me to take their picture for their Moms and Dads.

Tank matching the continents to their outlines

Mouse was showing Tank Asia....

We talked about earth's timeline this week.....we examined cave paintings and then tried to paint some

Tank working with the measuring cups...

Tiger keeping our mirror nice and clean....

One of our wonderful families donated this large whiteboard for our classroom. The children just love it....another great outlet for my new writers.

We do a lot of cooking at Tree House, I believe in eating "clean" and we avoid processed food. We make most of our food from scratch. The children enjoy helping to make their meals. Here Tank is cutting carrots for soup, we make our own hummus for snack, and cornbread to go with our Veggie Chili.

My little Marble....she loves to paint "round and round"

We went into the woods to do some tracking...we found fox, squirrel, deer and mouse tracks, then we spent some time sliding on rocks.

This is the most popular work on the shelves at the moment. It is pouring with a funnel, but there is a catch as the material(very small clear plastic cubes and small silver balls) jams in the funnel, the children then use a small skewer to help move the material through the funnel. The children are fascinated by this.

Tiger using the mortar and pestle to grind up bread crumbs. We then put the bread crumbs outside for the birds.

Mouse tweezing snowflake erasers.....

Underneath the cute rooster hat is Iish working on 'locks and keys'

Tank and Little Foot working on spooning...

Colour mixing with 3 primary colours...

Some language work....matching pictures to initial sounds and clapping syllables.

We have started the year learning about measuring. We have learned how to measure time and how to use measuring cups. Here Princess is doing the "days of the week" work

The older children are so eager to work together. The Montessori materials lend themselves very well to working in small groups.

We planted our Amaryllis Bulb that I received from one of our families for Christmas. This was a great activity this week as we are learning about measuring. We had to measure 3 1/2 cups of water to add to the soil puck. It is going to be fun to watch the Amaryllis grow over the next couple of weeks.