One of our elementary students in her work space at home engaged in our Home Learning Program!
Knobless cylinders are sensorial materials that are used for visual discrimination of dimension, width, length and size. The knobless cylinders come in 4 coloured boxes (blue, red, yellow and green), each with their own set of 10 cylinders. #montessori #sensorial
A very helpful third year mentor assisting a first year classmate with dressing to go outside. This is a wonderful example of the meaningful interactions that happen in a three year age grouping in the Montessori classroom. #leadership #mentoring #helpful #confidence
Working with the teen beads to learn teen numbers by counting and forming the beads from 11 -19. #montessori #montessorimath
Practical life exercises in a Montessori classroom are purposeful tasks that develop motor control, coordination, independence, concentration and give the child a sense of responsibility. #practicallife #montessori
Meanwhile, our casa children are enjoying curling in gym class this week! #gym #curling #rocksandrings
We are back at it with our Home Learning Program! Our incredible teachers are finding creative and interesting ways to keep their students engaged and learning while they must be at home, working together with our supportive and involved parents.
We made it! Despite the challenges, our wonderful school community- the best staff, such supportive parents and our incredibly positive and adaptable students- rallied together for a tremendously successful first term. Wishing all of our Kew Park families a happy holiday and a restful break at home!
Sorting animals by continent.
Yesterday we had our annual turkey luncheon. Although we couldn’t eat all together in banquet style like we usually do, each classroom was festive and enjoyed the feast. We really missed the help of the children in preparing the food this year, as it is usually a joint effort with little hands peeling potatoes, baking cookies, cutting veggies and making cranberry sauce.
Several of our lower elementary students wrote letters of appreciation to front line workers @michaelgarronhospital this week. #thankful #community
One of our casa classes had a socially distanced outdoor Friday dance session for their mask break this morning!
For an art lesson today about line, our lower elementary students sketched their own shoes. The result was impressive and they were very proud of their drawings. Check out a few here...
Using a real specimen to learn the parts of a fish makes the lesson that much more interesting! #zoology
A lower elementary class had their own archeological dig to complement their study of the Timeline of Life, that included real fossils and palaeontologist name tags! #history #handsonlearning #inspired
Happy Diwali! Our classes celebrated the festival of lights this week with stories, crafts and lighting diyas.
Today we remembered. We remembered by making poppies, by reading books and poems, by sharing war time family stories and items, by writing postcards for Veterans, by visiting our local Legion, by gathering in the yard for O’Canada, The Last Post and a moment of silence. We were particularly moved when a formation of planes flew over head. #lestweforget
A grade two student using the Stamp Game to solve a big division question! This clever Montessori material can be used to solve all four operations. #montessori #math #stampgame
Outdoor lessons are so enjoyable in this beautiful fall weather we’ve been having.
The beautiful elementary grammar box material hard at work in the lower elementary classroom. A favourite of the children, this work teaches them to classify language. Each symbol corresponds to a particular part of speech and each coloured box builds on the understanding of the previous one.