What We Did This Week

April 28, 2025

Spanish word of the day- hormiga-ant Today our friends did sweeping! Sweeping the floor is one of the practical life activities that help children learn the importance of cleanliness and taking care of household chores. Purpose: * Direct: to learn the movements needed to manipulate a broom, managing one’s body, the broom, and the spilled material all at the same time. * Indirect: coordination, independence, and concentration. Also, our friends learned the letter sound “s”. Some of the words that our friends came up with were “star, sun, and snail.” Material: * child-sized broom * small dustpan and hand brush * loose material to sweep such as beans or rice * removable tape to mark off an area on a hard floor

April 29, 2025

Trendy Tuesday 

Spanish word of the day-mariposa-butterfly

Today, we worked with dressing frames.

Dressing frames help children practice dressing themselves by learning how to use different types of fasteners, like buttons or zippers. Each frame teaches one kind of fastener. We used the button frame today.

It has two pieces of fabric that overlap. One side has buttons, and the other side has buttonholes. This activity was tricky for some of our younger friends, but everyone gave it a try! Dressing frames are a great way to practice important self-care skills!

April 30th, 2025

Spanish word of the day- mariquita- ladybug

Folding is a wonderful Montessori practical life activity that helps in building independence, confidence, and fine motor skills. It also develops children’s muscular control and provides a lesson in exactness and rigor, laying the foundation for later geometry work. We learned how to fold using different lines marked on the cloth sheets of material along distinct lines. The children learned how to fold correctly, tracing down the line, and folding precisely on the line