For the older children, January was the Montessori Fourth Great Lesson (How Written Language Came to Be) plus an introduction to Structured Word Inquiry (SWI), which will now continue as a weekly special subject.
For the younger children, January was the remainder of the Capital Letters. Because I got COVID in December, I don't have many photos from that month, but I do want to share pics from November and the first block of Capital Letters before I share photos for January and the second block.
So here goes, and hopefully it is fun to see the continuing threads between November and January. We've done a lot of Language Arts lately!
I also have ALL of the Capital Letters notes of our stories & activities compiled briefly into one post here: Waldorf and the Capital Letters Block
Week 11 for us was the week which began November 13th and was the week before our Autumn Break. The Bobcats polished and published their Quality of Numbers main lesson books and began new yellow MLBs for the Capital Letters I block. The Bongos continued their November topic of Wonderful Houses Around the World. Those MLBs are orange, as orange is our color for Cultural topics (see Color Coding the Plan Book).
Here are some more past blog posts that go with our studies this week:
This week we finished Charlotte's Web as our lunchtime read aloud. When we come back from the break we will read some stories from Mongolia.
Here are some photos from week 11:
W is for Worm and U is for Undergroundfor the younger children
(we read Tillie and the Wall by Leo Lionni)
as always, daily goal setting at our Morning Meeting
reviewing math terminology
Pattern Play by Mindware
finger knitting
counting the books, bag by bag, from a new donation!
we got seven bags of ex-library books
using the Dot Game paper to add up all the books!
potato printing for O is for Otter
look at those little otter faces!I love to use A Lot of Otters by Barbara Helen Berger for this lesson
S is for Stars
The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence by Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson
each lesson comes with a classroom script plus a message from the aliens
our group brainstorm of fundamental human needs
spelling test on high frequency words
rough drafting for the Shelters MLB
special guest Larry Millard demonstrates African drumming
he is starting up twice a month community drum lessonsso if you and your child are interested, let me know!
Thursday is Pajama Day!
they get to build forts and then do their work in their forts 😊
sofa cushions form the basis of a lot of the living room forts
covering a card table with a sheet also works
peacefully knitting inside a cozy library fortbuilt with the Chalkscapes Fantasy Fort Kit from HearthSong
a yeast experiment for B is for Bubblesthe children each get a portion of sleeping yeast and can add any kitchen ingredient they want to try to wake it up
plain yeast, as the control
yeast + warmed orange juice is the winner!
we mix up some homemade Bubble Stuff using the instructions in Earthways: Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children 
we add in some watercolor paint and make Popped Bubble Art!
sewing up a finished Star Gnome...
who cheerfully sat by while she wrote in her Plan Book
building cars with CD wheels in Science Club
Zac continued to build forts over the Thanksgiving Break
a perfect tie-in to the Shelters block... and just a fun thing to do!
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