Last week we had the amazing experience of traveling to Sarasota, Florida to attend the International Montessori Council annual conference. We are excited to put all we learned into practice!
The children have been busy preparing for Historical Halloween. Please be sure they bring their costumes to school on Monday. We will give an oral presentation to the younger students and then invite you to join us at 3pm for a tour of our "Living Museum".
The students have been learning about plants. The plant kingdom includes mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Flowering plants have been the most successful, evolving into thousands of species and adapting to a variety of conditions. The students learned to distinguish between flowering and non-flowering plants as well as the parts of a flowering plant. We went outside to go a seed hunt to explore the various forms that seeds come in, the fruit that contains them, and their designs for traveling.
The students then moved on to the study of animals. They learned about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. They move to find food. They produce waste from the food that their bodies cannot use. Their waste and their bodies go back to the soil to provide the soil with carbon. Animals have the ability to adapt. The students had a lesson to distinguish between invertebrates and vertebrates and to distinguish between the five classes of vertebrates. They have studied the parts of the vertebrate and are looking at fish, amphibians, and reptiles. They will study birds and mammals soon. They had an engaging lesson on adaptation strategies and played a game of predator or pray to understand the dynamic between the two.
The students had an introductory music lesson on frequency and amplitude and have been exploring sound. We are looking forward to the arrival of our new tone bars to bring our music curriculum to new heights! Thank you to all who helped raise the funds to purchase the material to make this possible!
Several students began to dive in to our Challenge 20/20 Project to study the water deficit around the world. They are really excited about the project and are bursting at the seams with ideas! Look for more information to come!
Don't forget about our "Scenery Sleepover" next Friday, November 4th. Information will be forthcoming.
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