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I'm a Montessori Primary teacher. I have a mixed age class of 29 3, 4, and 5-year-olds. We do a lot of learning about plants and nature and their life cycles. Soon, my kiddos will start to learn about the parts of a pumpkin and the life cycle of a pumpkin, as well as all the changes that occur...
September 27, 2023
Katherine B Walters

Aividres Twilight Cactus gave my students a chance to use colors to recreate their own Twilight image. The pictures when place on a window where lots of sun shone through looked amazing!...
September 27, 2023
Tammy Coffee

For farm week we learned about about different animals that live on the farm as well as what foods we get from farms. Something that is always a big hit with my class of 2 year olds is...
September 26, 2023
Amy Gershman

Our five senses theme is done in October. During this time we celebrate Halloween and have pumpkins in our classroom. One of them we use to make a jack-o’-lantern and the other in our...
September 26, 2023
Angela c Hospedales

Teaching your kids to trace lines and letters is a fundamental step in their early education and can help them develop essential fine motor skills and handwriting abilities. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started: Materials you'll need: Paper: Get plain, unlined paper or print...
September 25, 2023
chadi

We used simple things we had around the classroom. Like a toilet paper roll and made it look like a jar of cinnamon, and we got a empty half gallon to use for milk, and a brown container for pie dough, an old coffee tin for sugar, and the parents brought in an empty butter tin, and egg carton for...
September 25, 2023
Briana Bowling

Life cycles are perhaps the simplest and most daunting topic as it often brings into question our own mortality. However using life cycles as an anchor for the year gives a connection to the cyclic nature of the earth and all living things. Starting the year with Apples and trees, then back...
September 25, 2023
Allisen Hein

This is the class number 5 from the topic. The students have worked with the colors and some of the shapes before. The teacher presents...
September 25, 2023
Karina D

Great activity for Family Day! Our class invited their family members for games and activities in the school. As a part of our classroom activity, each family made their Family using their...
September 25, 2023
May Acosta

We put apple slices in three separate jars with water, lemon juice, and Vinegar. We talked about what we thought would happen to the different slices. Most of the kids thought that the apple in the jar with water would be the best one. At the end of the week we looked at them all and talked about...
September 24, 2023
heather gibson