From the Hermosa Montessori March newsletter:

PreK/ Kindergarten
Mary, Katie & Leslie’s Class
The pre-school and kindergarten classrooms have
a multitude of learning activities that include
academic lessons in science, math, social studies, English
Language Arts, physical activity, music, movement,
art, health and safety skills, social communication, and
virtue development. Since our young students are still
developing their oral communication skills, they often
cannot tell you what they are learning. Here are some
the activities that students in Mary’s class most enjoy:


Xander – sand table
Kai – painting on porch
Santino – multiplication fact book
Gus – making ghosts
Ezra – sandbox
Azaan – drawing dinosaurs
Zaden – continent song
Noemi – big sandbox
Lucy – practical life
Megan – writing about kitties
Morgan – making dresses in art
Shelbie – working with mineral spheres in science
David – making paper T-rexes
Scarlett – reading in library
Rylee – I am interested in every book
Lyla – I like to draw cats
Sophie – continent map
Tyler – bead chains in math
Solomon – hanging chains (math)
Claire – making slides in art
Autumn – reading in the library
Abigail – calendar
Atticus – writing stories
Juliette – do pictures

Yep, he comes home with a new story practically every day. Of course, we tell stories on the rides to school every morning and just about any chance he gets he wants me to tell him a story or for us to collaborate on making up stories. :)

 

Here are a few pictures from the pottery class Atticus and I took. It just finished up, and we signed up to take the next one which starts in about a month. Atticus said, "I have to keep taking pottery so I can practice and get better."

 

Our first batch of stuff: mugs

 Here's a few other pieces--the little desert scene has Atticus's footprint in it. Behind this is a bowl I made.

 Atticus making a fruit
salad. This was from a couple months back, I think.

He's taken to wearing masks and costume pieces a lot lately, like this old Halloween mask, his shrek ears, and his superhero outfit. He wore the Halloween mask on the ride to school with the hopes of scaring someone.

 

 

Somebody (not me) gave Atticus his first fruit roll-up the other week. He said, "What is this thing? This is the weirdest thing I ever ate! Get this crazy, sticky thing off of me!"

He was so excited about nature walk at school Friday that he muttered in his sleep, "Nature walk. Nature walk."

He is super excited about his birthday. He's been counting down for like eight months now. When I told him I'm baking both a cake and cupcakes, he said, "No fair! I want both!" I said, "You're going to be the birthday boy, so you can have both." He that was the most awesome thing ever, then went on to say that only he can have both; the other kids at his party have to choose one or the other. Later he said, "And if there were three treats, I'd get all three. And if there were four, I'd get all four. But the other kids would still have to choose."