11/16/12
Dear RiverRun Families,
This
week started lessons on the Sun and Earth.
The children learned about gravity and how the Sun’s pull is much
stronger than Earth’s and how velocity, Earth’s forward movement, stops it from
being pulled into the Sun. We also
discussed how we rotate from shadow to light and dusk to dawn and how hot or
cold portions of the earth would be if we did not rotate. Demonstrations accompany these lessons which
keep the children interested and able to interact and experience the concepts
being taught.
In
Writers’ Workshop we have been looking at leading or opening lines of various
books. After hearing them we would vote
on whether they caught our attention enough to read on. The children are working on having good leading
lines that the rest of their stories can follow.
The
Elders had lessons on how to work out math equations with parenthesis, and we
are continuing to read Wind in the Willows, a novel study we did not
complete last year. The Middles had
refresher lessons on the Snake Game (another way to encourage memorization of
math facts) and many of them were introduced to the Life of Fred series. I believe the Fred series compliments the Montessori
math material. The children can do the
work on their own, it is humorous as well as filled with many fun facts not
always related to math.
I leave you with an excerpt from
John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem The Pumpkin (1850):
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and
from West,
From North and from South comes the pilgrim
and guest:
When the gray-haired New Englander sees round
his board
The old broken links of affection restored:
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother
once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl
smiled before:
What moistens the lip and what brightens the
eye,
What calls back the past, like the rich
Pumpkin pie?
Best Wishes for a wonderful weekend and joy filled Thanksgiving,
Amy
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