10/6- 10/9

We had a short but eventful week here at Children's Garden WHPM. The teacher's were busy ringing your phones at odd hours of the day and night with six week phone calls (if we haven't reached you, we will). The students were busy exploring the classroom, experimenting with new activities and socializing with one another on the playground .
A student is picture here working with the Number Rods. The Number Rods (also called the red and blue rods) are a wonderful Montessori math material. They are made up of ten wooden rods increasing in length from 10 cm. to 1 meter in equal encrements. The rods are painted in alternating red and blue segments of 10 cm. This work provides a concrete method for devolping concepts of number quantities and number sequence. When used in combination with the wooden numerals(seen below) the activity encourages the association of the numerals 1-10 and their corresponding quanties.
This student carefully graded the color tablets from dark to light, then formed them into a sunburst pattern. We celebrated his hard work with this picture.WE DID IT. The grapes were finally ready and look what we made... JUICE. The students helped pick the grapes from the arbor in the backyard and selected a few choice peaches from our tree. We carefully de-stemmed the grapes and sliced the peaches. Then put them into the juicer, moved the switch to 'on' and seconds later we had delicious juice....and look at this gorgeous compost! Our compost pile is happily brewing in the backyard, hungrily devouring our food scraps.

Thanks for another wonderful week in WHPM!
Looking ahead:
There will be no school, Oct. 10-13th.
There is a classroom volunteer orientation meeting scheduled for Thursday October 16th at 2:30, we hope you can make it if you are interested.
The wine auction is scheduled for October 24th, be sure to save the date.
And just a reminder, don't forget about Gulliver... no trip is too small for him and the students love the activity.
Thank you so much and we'll see you on Tuesday.