November 2016

Hope, Love and Dream Classes

November was a busy month with lots of celebrations and new faces! Our theme this month was science.  The students learned about different things that sink and float, and why they do that.  We also learned about the difference between solids, liquids, and gasses, what they are made of, and the shapes they form.

We got to watch and take part in a lot of really cool experiments.  These were:

Observing ice cubes turn to water, then water vapor when heated in a kettle,

Objects floating and sinking in a tub of water,

A balloon being blown up from the gas produced when baking soda and vinegar are mixed together.

Mixing corn starch with warm water it produced a solid when it was still, and a liquid when it was moved.

During the rest of November students continued practicing their handwriting skills, and continued learning about different Montessori jobs.

 

Welcome

This month we had the privilege of welcoming three new students to SEM. Damon and his younger brother Harrison, and Nathaniel. Damon was welcomed into LOVE class and Harrison and Nathaniel were welcomed into Dream class.

On Friday November 4th, the sun was shining and there was a hint of warmth in the air.  It was a beautiful day for our garage sale.  The tables were set up outside, all of the students had brought in a range of different things that they wanted to sell, and they all had money to buy themselves new things.  Before the garage sale started, Mr Adrian and Miss Anna talked about the concept of buying and selling things.  To help the students understand more, they role played a buying and selling situation which was a lot of fun!

On Friday, November 11th we had two celebrations.  The first, was Austin's birthday. The Second, was Pae Pae Ro day.  Pae Pae Ro day is a great day for eating yummy chocolate sticks. If only there were more days like this during the year!

We started the day celebrating Austin's birthday, then after lunch we got to eat many different kinds of chocolate sticks as a treat. They were all very delicious!

Happy Birthday Austin

We all celebrated American Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 24th.  We all put our creative hats on and made colorful paper plate turkeys.  Then, we learned about the traditions and history of the day.  For lunch, we celebrated with a full thanksgiving meal... which was very delicious!  We also talked about what we are thankful for, and drew some colorful pictures.

October 2016

Hope, Love and Dream Classes

October was filled with lots of fun activities.  With the changing season it was a great time to explain how the world we see every day changes with the weather.  Since these changes are best seen in Autumn, with the changing colors of the leaves, we decided Autumn would be our theme for the month.

We started October with a trip to Haemagae Park on October 14th, as this is the best place to observe the different colors of the leaves on the trees.  Luckily, it was a beautiful, warm and sunny day, too.

We walked up the hill to see the animals.  There were birds, rabbits, deer, unfortunately the ostrich was sleeping, but we did get to see the newborn baby monkey.  It was very cute!

After we saw the animals, we continued up the hill to the park.  We got to run around, play on the climbing frame, go down the slide a few times, and take a picture on the seesaw.

All of the students from Hope, Love and Dream class worked together to collect the leaves that had fallen from the trees.  It was hard work, but we managed to collect a lot of different types of leaves with different colors.

We then had a picnic with lots of yummy food.  Afterwards, we drew pictures of the trees, leaves and the park, too.

During the rest of October students continued practicing their handwriting skills, learned about the different parts of a leaf and continued learning about different Montessori jobs.

On October 6th we celebrated Amy's birthday, and on October 31st we celebrated Charlie's birthday, too.

Happy Birthday Amy

Happy Birthday Charlie

On October 28th we all celebrated Halloween together. To start, Hope, Love and Dream classes each drew scary faces on their class pumpkins, then Miss. Stephanie, Mr. Adrian and Miss. Anna carved the faces out.

All of the students and staff were dressed in fantastic scary costumes.  We talked about our costumes, played Halloween games and visited the scary haunted house (Hope Class).... It was veeeeeery scaaaaaary!