Throughout Week 5 the Middle School students were away on an aquatic based camp at Hindmarsh Island. We did something different this year and had the Year 9 students head to the campsite a day earlier than the Year 7 and 8 students. This was because the Year 9s completed a kayaking expedition where they […]
Over the past year the Cycle 1 team have attended training and put into practice a hands on, inquiry-based STEM curriculum through a program called Little Scientist. Our commitment to this program has been recognised and we are celebrating becoming a “Little Scientists House”. To become accredited we submitted a wonderful project that stemmed from […]
The year is flying past with our youngest members of the Southern Montessori Community. We are busy this term learning about ‘Our Garden’. It gives us a great opportunity to explore a range of elements in nature, from the flowers to the insects. This week the children had the chance to look at the silk […]
Camp 2019 was so much fun!! After the long bus ride to Woodhouse Activity Centre, Piccadilly, we were straight into activities. We learnt about microscopic bugs that inhabit the local area and their importance to the ecosystem and food chains. We explored them with magnifying glasses and determined their names from a flow chart. Our […]
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 […]