January 2023

 Happy Valentine's Day! 

A lot happened in January and now as February is coming to an end, so thank you for your patience. 

In January, we spent most of our time together practicing our speeches and preparing for our year end program. Please look forward to that in our next blog post. 

We took advantage of whatever time we had outside as January was an especially cold month. We explored the renovated walking area and had a lot of fun playing around. We made sure to always stay with a walking buddy. 

As usual, we had our science themed English lesson on the power of regeneration. It took a week or two, but we were able to see our garlic regrow just by keeping it in water! 

In the pictures, we were on day 1, prepping our garlic for the two-week long experiment. We had to wear gloves because garlic is quite stinky! 

  

The top picture is day 1, and the bottom picture is after 2 weeks. 

As usual, we had our robot class, and on these 2 days, students enjoyed knocking down bowling pins with the cars they built. 

Here, some of our students opted to paint instead of draw. They enjoyed getting their hands dirty and sharing the paint, but it was a little messy. They love painting rainbows!

The pictures above and below look like rainbows, and they look very similar in color, but still have each student's personal touch.  The photo below with our youngest student is just as colorful and he clearly was happy to share what he painted. 

On the left looks like a pretty black shadow with red, and on the right, the painting looks like something inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. 

On the left, our student painted a rainbow. Isn't it pretty? She loves bright colors and especially loves the color pink. 

The picture on the right shows one of our youngest students show casing an array of colors, but not quite in a rainbow like the others. She put her own personal touch and made it clear she was the painter by painting her name. 

We've celebrated one birthday so far in February, but please look forward to seeing photos from three birthday parties in our February blogpost! Thank you for reading if you've made it this far, and we look forward to sharing another month of fun and hectic memories. The picture below is our students preparing to practice their speeches. 

October 2022

 Welcome to October! Did you read our last blog post? It's especially full of fond memories as it includes July through September photos. This post will be a little more toned down, but still just as nice in sharing what's been going on here at Stephanie's English Montessori!

 In October, we learned about inventions. Inventions and their inventors was an especially difficult topic, but we were able to learn about things like fridges and telephones, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, and new names and faces. 

Here is one of our students showing the chick she made from cooking class. Doesn't it look too cute to eat? 

 

In science, we also learned about the phases of the moon! Waxing gibbous was especially a favorite, and a repeated new word. Here you can see one of our students coloring in the waning crescent phase of the moon. 

 

We had our usual robot class. Here one of our newest students, Lucy is showing off her elephant robot she made. 

Lastly, here is our group photo from our Halloween party at the end of October. 

As we said, the blog post for this month is shorter, but we hope you enjoyed it just as much. Again, please read the last post if you haven't. Thank you for reading, and please look forward to November's post! 

July, August, September 2022

 It's been awhile, hasn't it? Although it's been a few months, the memories of this month are still fresh in our minds. 

In July, there was a lot going on, and we regret that we are very late in sharing all the fun we had. In July, we had a pajama party, and crazy hair day. We also celebrated Regan's birthday as well as experimented making cloud dough. They were messy and crazy times, that we hope can be held meaningfully in our memories even as we share the with our readers a few months late. 

In the month of August, we learned about sports. Soccer in particular, was a fan favorite amongst our students, as well as ballet. In the game of learning, all our students are winners!

As well as studying about sports, we also celebrated one birthday in August. Rian's birthday was August 16th. She celebrated turning 6 years old. Doesn't she look happy? 

As well as celebrating a birthday, our students enjoyed fishing, a good refresher from previous months of learning about the ocean and ocean life. 

That brings us to our next topic. In September, we learned about landmarks and water landmarks. 

In September to solidify our learnings, we went on a picnic to Doeum Mountain here in Pohang. It was a fun and enjoyable time, and we were able to work up a small sweat but enjoy the sunshine. 

Going through these memories, we remember how hot and humid these months were, but we also remember how fast our students grow up, and just how much they've learned even when we feel like their progress wasn't what we wanted. 

Please look forward to October as our blogpost will be going up very soon after this one. Thank you for reading this longer than usual one, and see you next time! 

June 2022

 Long time no see friends! Welcome to our June blog. It's been awhile, but the memories are still fresh in our minds. This year, it has been unusually lacking in rain, but still very humid nonetheless. 

In June, we learned all about rhyming words. Although it was a bit difficult for Dream class to grasp the concept, this was good exposure to it. They were able to recognize the words ram and dam, and rat and cat, just to name a few words. 

Below, you can see them working on their rhyming worksheets.

Love Class did well, and were able to recognize words that rhyme. They also had a bit of difficulty recognizing that plane and train can also rhyme! 

As well as learning about rhymes, we celebrated two birthdays. We celebrated Hayu's birthday first. She turned 7 years old. 

We also celebrated William's birthday. He's the youngest and newest friend, so he didn't quite understand how things worked at first. He turned 4 years old. 

We had our Musical English class. Thursdays are always days to look forward to in the week. 

Lastly, for science in June, we decided to make geodes. The concept was difficult to understand, but at least we got to see how a simple mixture of alum powder and water can make shiny crystals.

 Thank you for sticking with us to the end. Our upload schedule is rather inconsistent, but please continue to look forward to future posts.