Today was our second day of school and the children were full of excitement. Our holiday of Rosh Hashanah is coming up at the end of the month and most of our works in the classroom reflect the themes of apples and honey. Our class of twelve children are all new to Montessori and to mixed age setting with the exception of one student. In addition, the majority of the children are under four years of age. For this reason, we have decide to begin the first few weeks of class together at the line to present lots of grace and courtesy lessons. Here is NM practicing rolling her rug after today’s rug rolling lesson:
At line today we introduced the shofar (ram’s horn) which is blown in synagogue during the Rosh Hashanah services. The children took turns trying to blow the shofar (we sanitized it between uses):
Today I gave YMG the pink tower lesson and he worked with the cubes on his own:
YS was very interested in numbers yesterday and today, and was able to point out the numbers from 1-10. I gave him a numbers and counters lesson with an apple theme:
RM is my only returning student. She attended the school I taught at last year (which is not a Montessori school) and her parents wanted her to have one more year in this classroom setting before moving on to a traditional classroom – so she joined me for another year! I was worried she would have forgotten much of her letter work over the summer, but she went right to the shelves today and started build CVC words all on her own!
I felt that our second day was very positive and even though almost everyone is new to Montessori, we had a peaceful and productive day! Here are a few of the kids busy working:
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