{"id":3048,"date":"2020-11-30T22:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:07:46","slug":"pumpkins-falling-leaves-and-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/2020\/11\/30\/pumpkins-falling-leaves-and-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins, falling leaves…and Thanksgiving."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the year to celebrate the harvest and to be thankful for all the things we receive from God.\u00a0 We are thankful that we are healthy and safe, and can come to school every day to be with friends and teachers, to discover and learn about something new. This semester we have been wearing our masks in the classroom. We took pictures wearing masks, put our faces on the puppet fabric, painted the Montessori smocks; and the children made a miniature puppet of themselves.<\/p>\n

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Painting our smocks red…<\/p>\n

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Drawing what’s on our smocks…<\/p>\n

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And talking with each other.<\/p>\n

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We have three little (real) buttons on our smocks.<\/p>\n

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We continue talking about the autumn leaves. Some children picked them up on the way to school.\u00a0 We are observing the different colors and shapes of the fallen leaves.\u00a0 In our Montessori Leaf Cabinet, we have drawers of different types of leaves.\u00a0 Did you know that they all have a name for their shapes?<\/p>\n

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Talking about leaves, something interesting happened during lunch time.\u00a0 Two children who were eating the school cafeteria lunch that day shouted that they had a “leaf” in their lunch!\u00a0 A leaf? No way!<\/p>\n

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But, yes, it was<\/em> true.\u00a0 A little leaf was discovered “in” their spaghetti sauce!\u00a0 Don’t worry, it was a fragrant leaf called a bay leaf from the laurel tree, used as an herb. It helps to make the sauce tastiest, but sorry, you shouldn’t eat that leaf!<\/p>\n

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Oh, on another day, something else happened during lunch time.\u00a0 Our classmate’s tooth fell out as she was enjoying her lunch.\u00a0 Good thing she didn’t swallow it!\u00a0 Can you see her newly lost tooth and the little gap in her row of teeth?\u00a0 The next day, she told us that when she left her tooth under her pillow, a tooth fairy came to deliver a present… not a coin, but a bill!<\/p>\n

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Learning:<\/strong> In our unit on the human skeleton, we are learning that grownups have 206 bones.\u00a0 Do you know how many bones babies have?\u00a0 Surprisingly, they have more.\u00a0 They have 300 soft bones that will eventually fuse together.\u00a0 We have a life-sized picture of a skeleton to learn the names of the bones.\u00a0 We named him “Max.”\u00a0 Each of his bones has a scientific name.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The longest, strongest, and heaviest bone in our bodies is the two thigh bones.\u00a0 We are learning the scientific name of “femur.”\u00a0 On our knee is the round disk-like bone, a knee bone, called “patella.”\u00a0 We have finger and toe bones called “phalanges”… And the list goes on.<\/p>\n

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There is a rubbing activity.\u00a0 It’s like magic… When you keep rubbing the paper with a crayon or a pencil, you can see the picture appear as you rub it hard.\u00a0 There is a hard outlined skeleton picture placed under the paper.<\/p>\n

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In November, one of our classmates had a birthday and he became the first one to turn six years old in our class. Carrying the planet earth, he walked around the\u00a0 Sun (a candle) six times.\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 Yes, each time the earth rotates around the sun, he turned a year older!<\/p>\n

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A visitor<\/strong>: From time to time, we have visitors coming into our classroom.\u00a0 One November afternoon,\u00a0 a Middle School student, who was actually in Ms. Mimi’s Class when she was three years old, visited our class to perform her storytelling entry at a virtual international schools’ Speech Contest coming up that week.\u00a0 It was an amusing story about a gorilla who was itchy and his animal friends tried to help him.\u00a0 There was a lot of action, and we all enjoyed being the audience.\u00a0 By the way, it was her first time performing in this Speech Contest, and she ended up with a silver prize. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The children take good care of their classroom.\u00a0 One activity is trimming the plants.<\/p>\n

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Practical Life activities:\u00a0 Transferring beans with a pair of tongs.<\/p>\n

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Language activity: Using the Small Moveable Alphabet to write a story.<\/p>\n

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“Can you put a clip on the beginning sound of ‘hat’?”<\/p>\n

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Sharing reading time together in the Library Corner.<\/p>\n

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Number work: The Teen Board, matching the quantity and the symbols.<\/p>\n

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Sorting activity:\u00a0 Sorting different colors.<\/p>\n

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Arts and Crafts:\u00a0 Cutting, pasting, and drawing to make a Thanksgiving turkey puppet.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \u00a0Gobble, gobble… Happy Thanksgiving!\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s that time of the year to celebrate the harvest and to be thankful for all the things we receive from God.\u00a0 We are thankful that we are healthy and safe, and can come to school every day to be with friends and teachers, to discover and learn about something new. This semester we have…
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