Learning in Nature
20 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Today we went for a walk with the nursery to a neighbor, who was kind enough to show and talk to us about tortoises. This was a great treat, the children learnt about how these beautiful animals are harmed daily on the road, and the effort made to people to preserve them. After this, we went orange picking, and will be made orange cake tomorrow.
Book on Emotions
16 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
This is a great copy cat book, where the children imitate the emotions shown in the pictures, and then speak about when we might feel this way.
Valentine Week
16 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
This week we have been focusing on identifying our feelings, talking about what is important to us and what we are thankful for, identifying the feelings of others and noticing how these are similarly expressed in various cultures. Looking at pictures of families from around the world is important exposure, they learn that differences in how we look doesn’t mean that how we feel is different, and nurtures tolerance. We spoke more specifically about our families, the members of our families and how we can show our love and appreciation for them. This included baking some valentines cookies and making cards.
Boaz is 1
11 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Our dear Boaz celebrated his 1st birthday last week. It is such a privilege to share in such precious memories. It has been a joy watching him grow from baby to toddler, such a special child with a curious mind and busy little body. He is dearly loved! Happy Birthday special guy.
Learning Practical Life Skills
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
At a younger age, most of the learning is aimed at growing practical life skills. These are effectively the skills required for independence in ones environment, such as dressing, feeding, cleaning up etc. The younger ones learn from the example of the older group, and are encouraged to join in our activities, trying what they can, and observing.
Continuing with the Parts of a Tree book
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Over the past week we have been working on our ‘Parts of a Tree book’. This is designed to reinforce their learning on trees, new words, and creative skills. I have been sitting with the children individually on this exercise, as the one-on-one allows me to spend time with them, getting a better understanding on their learning skills.
Making our grass head plants.
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
This project is part of our Tubishvat learning, reinforcing their understanding of how plants grow, from seeds to plants. They have been tending these daily and seeing some progress 
Although the sun hasn’t been co-operating, we are hoping to have some long haired plants in a couple of days.
Parts of the Tree
31 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
This week we have continued our learning about trees for Tubishvat. This included reading related books and making an apple tree. Making the apples we made use of plasteline which the children rubbed into a apple cut out. This is a task that works their fine motor skills, and requires a degree of concentration and perseverance. Today they were also introduced to parts of the tree, making use of montessori classifaction cards. Later this week we will be making ‘parts of the tree’ booklets.
