Today, we talked about our day with preschoolers. We all shared our thoughts on the schools; we said what we liked about the school and what we didn't. After that, we made witch hat treats for the staff at Maudlin We started off with a chocolaty stripped cookie. Then, we put a dot of orange icing in the center of the cookie. We added a unwrapped Hersey Kiss in the middle of the orange dot. It made the perfect witch hat cookie!
October 30
Today, Mrs. Vaughn came into class to tell us about her kinder-gardeners. She started off telling us about herself, and we got to see pictures of her beautiful wedding. Then, she went through each one of her "kids" and told us about their personalities and what they needed help with. We had to think about which child would fit our personality and would get along with us best. We got to chose our buddy for the rest of the year. Some people wanted the same child, so, we had to talk it out and figure out who would be best with the child. All the kids are cute and seem really sweet.
October 31
Today is Halloween! We got to visit Mrs. Vaughn's class today. When we got to the class, the kids were working on a classwork. After they finished, we got to make spider bags with them. We had to use two halves of a black paper plate, eight pipe cleaners, two eyes, a mouth, and a string. First, we had to staple the two halves of the black paper plate together. The kids got to chose where they wanted the legs (pipe cleaners) to go, and we had to staple them in. The kids then got to glue down the eyes and stick the mouth on the front of the spider. After the kids did that, we took the hole punched the two ends and put string through it to make it a bag. When we finished making the spiders the kids went trick or treating around the classroom. They got to fill their bags with all different types of candy!
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Today, we started off by making the teacher crayon boxes for their doors. While we were doing that Alex presented her blog from last week. After that we got to look a the t-shirt design. Everyone loved the back of the shirt, but we decided to change the front to make it more detailed. Then, we had to finish picking our buddies for the rest of the year. Everyone got to pick a buddy, and everyone seemed happy with who they got. The last thing we did was watch a video about Montessori education. Montessori education is when you learn how to do things through hands on activities and learn how to be independent. Montessori education has five different sections: science practical life, sensory, culture, mathematics and language. They learn all of these sections through several different activities. Each child gets to chose what they want to do each day, and they work on it until they are finished.
Today, we went to Five Oaks Academy and got a tour of the school. We got to go into a couple of the classrooms to see how they were set up and how the kids acted. We learned that they use activities to learn something. If they don't get it the first time, they are able to try to learn in through a different activity. Whenever two people get into a fight, an adult takes them to a separate area to talk out their problems. This school works with kids to help them work with others and to be calm about things. The school was really pretty and calm
“The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.”
- Maria Montessori
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