Recently we celebrated National Science Week at school. Science is an integral part of the Montessori Cultural Studies Curriculum with students constantly engaging with scientific learning. For this special national week each class celebrated Science differently in their classrooms and then shared their learning with the other classes at assembly. We heard about local walks […]
Our Middle School students are hosting a ‘Market Day’ in the last week of this term where they are planning to open their school to the Southern Montessori community and to residents of Kalyra. The focus of this term’s Occupations subject is working towards this day. Our students had the choice of three groups; ‘food […]
CLASSROOM FOCUS – GROUP/CIRCLE TIME Group/circle time is an integral part of our Montessori programs. These times provide many opportunities for children to experience and practise skills that will assist them in all areas of their development. Toddlers may be the first time a child has been invited into a structured group situation. […]
We suddenly find ourselves half way through 2019 and we have been so busy in the Preschool. We saw many new friendships blossom last term and the children are confident and engaged learners. In our Cultural Studies curriculum, we focussed on geography and in particular, mapping. Some of the activities we did included: Exploring globes […]
A key principle of Montessori learning is ‘going out’ and obtaining real world experiences to link learning. We aim to find authentic ways to provide these opportunities to enhance the student’s experiences in the classroom. Botany Our Cultural Studies topic has centered around Botany this term with investigations of the function of plants and ways […]
The children in our classroom have been working through our Montessori number sequence with great enthusiasm. We have been focusing closely on place value. The younger children in our cycle have been using our concrete materials to compose, decompose, represent and order numbers from 0-1000. Children have also spent time making quantities using our Mortensen […]
Today the Cycle 1 and 2 children enjoyed a magnificent performance by the Bumble Bee Brass Band. The performance was thoroughly enjoyed by the children who sung, clapped and danced along to the wonderful tunes. We thank the Bumble Bee Brass Band for visiting us and putting on such a show. Mia, Gemma […]
We have had a great start to term two. For Cultural Studies we are focusing on Mapping and Geography. To begin our unit we asked the children what they wanted to learn about in regards to the world. They sure did have some interesting questions such as: ‘Why is Darwin called Darwin?’ ‘What plants grew […]
Our school is offering students the opportunity to enter the Oliphant Science Awards. Students may enter work in one of 9 different categories: Computer Programming & Robotics Models & Inventions Posters Crystal Investigation Multimedia Science writing Games Photography Scientific Inquiry Most categories allow for group entries (2 or 3 students) as well as individual entries. […]
Welcome to Term 2. We are excited about our plans for the term. Our Cultural Studies topic focusses on Botany and will involve an excursion to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens as well experiments and investigations at school. We launched this topic with a visit from Professor Flint this week where he discussed Climate Change with […]