By:Tracie Phua   Matisse and Ruby have been busy preparing for a puppet show for their friends. They developed characters with paper and wrote a script for their show. Today, they were ready to stage their show and got everything organised outside, including getting the audience together. No one was compelled to watch and children […]

Created on:26/03/2015 8:32:39 p.m.By:Tracie Phua   Emily spontaneously decided to introduce the second part of the puppet show to her friends ..”Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Ruby and Matisse’s show ! They are doing the puppet show !”  

By:Tracie Phua   Alana, I asked if you wanted to work with the Large Moveable Alphabet (LMA) today. You readily agreed and got the large box out of the Language shelf. You decided that you wanted to write the names of your family members with the letters from the LMA.   You started with your […]

Cloud in a jar By:Kelly Norton Cyclone Pam inspired a group demonstration on ‘clouds’ and ‘rain’ with the ‘cloud in a jar experiment.  This inspired discussion about what the children heard and saw over the weekend when the storm hit.  They offered insight into how we may help our friends in Vanuatu badly affected by […]

Binomial cube By:Kelly Norton Alana has been working with the binomial cube.  This cube appears as a puzzle that offers opportunities to problem solve, but in fact this cube is the introduction, unbeknownst to Alana, to the cube of a binomial and it’s algebraic formula.  In this material, Maria Montessori beautifully prepares the subconscious through […]

A visit from Annwyne and her fine feathered friends! By:Tracie Phua   We had an injured bird the previous week and one of our lovely mothers brought it to the Birdwing Centre at Rothesay Bay. Thanks Julie (Luke’s mum) for letting us know that they were happy to visit schools to talk about injured birds […]

By:Kelly Norton Today Sam and Alana began using the paint brush and water to write their names.. Alana you explore how with the water and brush the sounds of your name emerge… Sam decides to work with at the carpentry bench, and I notice that you continue to explore this medium, spontaneously painting the rocks […]