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Science in Lower Elementary

As one of our many science activities, lower el will be experimenting with kitchen chemistry.

 

All of our activities will provide safe, workable experiments for learning about solutions, mixtures, acids and bases, chemical reactions and more.

 

Some activities will be demonstrated but most allow your child to conduct his/her own investigations through hands-on activities! 

Final Great Lessons

Our Great Lesson today was Communication in Signs: It takes the child on a journey through the development of our alphabet.

 

 

 

 

Friday will be the presentation of Numbers: This story traces the history of the numerals we use.

  

In both of the above last stories, connections are made between cultures of different times and places. The children are led to an appreciation of these two symbol systems that we usually take for granted, despite the fact that we ourselves use them more or less everyday.

   

 

Submitted by: Jenn Darmogray

 

  

 

 

 

Great Lessons Continued

Today's Great Lesson becomes our story – the child’s story.  The human being enters the scene with the very special attributes of reason and will – intelligence and love – with an ability to work with the hand in ways unknown to other animals and with the possibility of choice.

 

Dr. Montessori said, “Something new came into the world with man, a psychic energy of life, different from any that had yet been expressed.” Human beings have used their intelligence, love and hands to continue their own story. Two of their major accomplishments, literacy and numeration, are introduced in the next two Great Lessons

 

 

The Great Lessons

This week the lower el students will be presented with the Great Lessons. Every year begins with this exciting introduction. These lessons introduce your child to the notion of history through the story of the universe. These lessons are all presented in a manner that sets your child's imagination on a path open to discovery!