Welcome Butterflies! Note about Blogs: A blog with be posted about every two weeks and will spotlight something special happening in the classroom. This first blog will highlight our daily schedule. Going forward, spotlights might include topics like: science in preschool, Montessori math, or sound studies. I hope you enjoy this first spotlight! Greeting Mariposa […]
Greetings, Mariposa families! I’m writing to you from the Fairy House Workshop, where your children are in the midst of building charming homes for their magical friends. First they drew architectural plans for their buildings. This week they’re using moss, clay, shells, twigs, pebbles, and other natural materials to bring their drawings to life, and […]
Science The past few weeks we have been focusing on two exciting themes, science and magic. Each week the children enjoy a new science experiment that is available for them to explore on their own as a shelf work. They have been erupting volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar, making natural dyes out of flower […]
Music plays a big role in our daily routines in Mariposa. In fact, one of our first signals of the day is the song “Come Join the Circle.” We love the peaceful and intentional tone that the song sets for our first gathering. In song, we wish each other “Good Morning to You” and then […]
Rainbows and Robots In honor of our latest sound study “r” we have been making robots, tracing robots, and listening to the chapter book The Wild Robot. In small groups the children traced a variety of shapes from our geometry cabinet, cut them out, and glued them onto a sheet of paper to create a […]
Little Witch Hazel closed up her bakery and now a post office has opened. To mark the ending of our baking unit, we made a chocolate cake to celebrate the skills we practiced! The children helped measure, pour, sift, fold, mix, and decorate the cake which we enjoyed on a Friday afternoon. Most of the […]
Greetings, Mariposa families! As our scientific study of animals’ homes progressed, we began to incorporate fictional stories of animals nesting in their homes in winter. Books like Bear’s Winter Party and Mole in a Black and White Hole enchanted the Mariposa children with their illustrations of cozy burrows decorated with treasures from the natural world. […]
Beaver Lodges As we enter the winter months we are turning our attention towards animal homes, particularly ones built for hibernation and escaping the cold weather. The children are learning about how animals create their own little sanctuaries for warmth and comfort. An invitation to build a beaver dam was presented in our sensory bin […]
“I” is for igloos and islands We are a third into the alphabet already! In the spirit of our sound study and architecture unit, the children enjoyed an igloo making project. First, they watched a short video to see the process of building a real igloo. Then, we pretended the paper was ice that we […]
Hello, Mariposa families! Bugs have continued to fascinate the Mariposa children. In the Bug Lab, we watched our monarch caterpillars nearly double in size each day, until finally one courageous caterpillar crawled up the side of the enclosure, formed a “J” shape, and built a chrysalis overnight! We marveled at how brave a caterpillar must […]
