Photos: Potato Stamping on St. Patty’s
What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day then with some green paint and a potato stamp!
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Photos: Solin Gets Some Help
While this series of photos highlight Solin’s work with shapes, Miro may be benefiting the most from this interaction. In Montessori’s mixed-age classroom, the elder child is able to work on their leadership and social skills, while modeling the proper use also allows them to develop a deeper understanding of the material. Studies have also
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Photos: Dr. Lisa’s Lesson on Exercise
Dr. Lisa came in this past week for her monthly lesson, this one was all about the importance of exercise and staying active. She had the children provide examples of activities that counted as exercise (“watching tv…NO!, playing soccer…YES!”), explained how exercise and eating well allows your body to function at an optimal level, and
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Photos: Niko’s Celebration of Life at Little Fruit Farm Montessori
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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Photos: Turkey Season at Little Fruit Farm Montessori
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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Photos: Spanish Lesson at Little Fruit Farm Montessori
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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Photos: Little Fruit Farm’s Field Trip to Washington County Museum
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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Corn Husking at Little Fruit Farm Montessori
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 MoreChildren’s Mural Featured at International Montessori Congress
It 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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Photos: The “Three Sisters” Garden at Little Fruit Farm
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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