Monthly Theme: Farms, Pumpkins, Fire Prevention, Fire Trucks, Small, Medium, Small, Spiders, Nocturnal Animals

Season: Fall

At Home: Look out of your window for
leaves beginning to change color

Color: Orange

At Home: Roll orange play dough into balls

Shape: Triangle

At Home: Find something at home that's a triangle

Letter: B, C

At Home: Trace the letters B and C in shaving cream

Art Medium: Sponge Paint

At Home: Use sponges to make a paint creation.

Science: Pumpkins and leaves

At Home: Take a walk and look for changing leaves

Religion: Bible Stories

At Home: Read a bible story at home

Thanks you Dear Jesus

This Day is for You

We Ask you Bless All We Think Say and Do.

Amen 

Songs/Chants: "Old MacDonald"

"Isty Bitsy Spider"

Books: Firefighter Hug Their Moms 

Spot's Halloween

Felt Board: Jack O Lanterns

We Look forward to special class each week including:

 Music

Spanish

Gym

Welcome fall!  September had us saying goodbye to summer with our sea theme activities. The children have done an amazing job adjusting to our new routines. A special thank you to our parents as well for adjusting to our new school routines.

Our fall themes include:  Apples, Leaves, Nature Walks, Pumpkins, Our Skeletons

 

Montessori office:  215-885-1636 ext. 182

PSB- Clare Brown cbrown@ancillae.org

PSG- Karla Russek krussek@ancillae.org

PSR- Megan St John mstjohn@ancillae.org

PSW-Marianne Egner  megner@ancillae.org

PSY- Marybeth Scher mscher@ancillae.org

Look for Show and Tell coming soon through Seesaw Blog.

Specials teachers:  
Gym- Aleah Conlin
Art- Tara Carolos
Music- Matthew Esposito
Spanish- Michael Braithwaite

" The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self."  ~ Maria Montessori

This area of the preschool environment assists in refining the movements of the child through activities such as pouring, sponging spooning, and stringing.  The child will practice the “Practical” tasks in life such as our button dressing frame, screwdriver board, polishing a mirror, sweeping, and cutting cucumbers.  As the year progresses, the tasks grow in refinement and complexity to increase concentration and a growing sense of order. Materials are sequenced so that each new activity challenges the child to focus and organize to complete the task at hand.

  “The senses, being explorers of our world, open the way to knowledge.”    ~ Maria Montessori 

This area of the preschool environment assists in refining our senses through isolation of individual senses.  Children will discriminate by size, color, shape, sound, smell, and touch. The children will recognize similarities through matching and differences through grading.  Variations and extensions of the materials will deepen the senses to see relationships as the children build patterns and designs.

“Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. “  ~ Maria Montessori 

This area of the preschool environment develops the “mathematical mind” of the child.  Through concrete experiences for quantity, the child learns the meaning of a number and then makes the association with the numeric symbol for that quantity. The tactile experience of the sandpaper numbers allows the child’s sense of touch to support the visual representation of each number. After mastery of the numbers to 10, teens and tens are introduced.  Using the base of 10, children are invited into higher quantities and introduced to functions of addition and subtraction. Children are also introduced to the concepts of time, money and graphing.

KA Bevin Bodnar  bbodnar@ancillae.org

KB Chrissy Ragg   cragg@ancillae.org

KC Marie Ireland mireland@ancillae.org

KD Karen Vizza kvizza@ancillae.org

K Virtual  and Fundations teacher                                       
Angela Olbrich aolbrich@ancillae.org

Resource Learning Support
Beth Mahan bmahan@ancillae.org