The Montessori Celebration of Life allows the children to contemplate what a birthday actually symbolizes. In preparation for the celebration of Niko’s 3rd birthday, a display was set up with a candle in the middle of a rug, representing the sun. Niko then held the globe, while the other children formed a circle around the
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With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, the children have been busy with a multi-step art project creating their own turkey’s. This gallery shows them adding detail on their turkey with black paint. Prior to this they painted construction paper brown, using a brown paint they each created by mixing together red, yellow and blue. This provided
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Yesterday the children received a Spanish lesson, conducted by our parent volunteer, Margarita. She covered various kinds of foods, and had the children match the Spanish word with the food she brought in Ziploc bags. She then gathered all of the food and put it in a bag that was placed in the center of
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Yesterday was our field trip to the Washington County Museum in downtown Hillsboro. The children and Ms. Lauren were joined by several parents and grandparents, as well as a few siblings who had the day off due to parent conferences. We took advantage of the park and ride at 170th and Baseline to take the
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All the hard work creating the Three Sisters Garden paid off! The children had a great time the other day picking and husking the corn!
Read MoreIt was exciting to see the children’s mural (on the left) displayed at the recent International Montessori Congress held at the Oregon Convention Center! The children and Ms. Lauren worked diligently the past few weeks to bring it to life. Dr. Maria Montessori established the International Congress in 1929 to raise the awareness and understanding
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When corn the children had planted in bins earlier in the growing season began to outgrow their container, we turned a “problem” into a beautiful new garden in the front of the school. After doing some research, Ms. Lauren found the Iroquois tribal way of planting corn on the top of mounds, and surrounding them with
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The children and Ms. Lauren took advantage of another day of nice weather to do some impromptu balance work and tumbling outside, then finished up with some work on their biology journals inside.
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The children enjoyed the nice weather that came with the first day of Summer School. We started off by picking strawberries, then made delicious strawberry jam. The boys then showed off their awesome strength with the log roll! There’s still time to enroll your child for the rest of summer. Check out our 2 for
Read MoreOur summer program began today and there is still time to get your child enrolled! LFFM will be open Monday through Thursday 8:30 – 5:00 and some Fridays. You can sign up for the full 8 weeks, or our last minute rates are $10.00 per hour per child*. We are planning some fun activities and adventures out and about, so
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