Photos! (lots of them!)

Once more I have been foxed by a combination of power cuts, something wrong with the internet (even now I'm on a mobile internet dongle thing and hoping it holds up!) and also a dodgy tummy. I think it's getting better but I felt pretty bad at school on Tuesday, didn't go in yesterday and am still at home today. Hope I can get in tomorrow. I'm not sure what it was - a peculiar migraine, something I ate or a bug...

Anyway, here are some photos of what we've been up to so far in the Montessori room!

Ready to learn, sitting around the edge of the carpet

Free choice activities

Busy busy busy!

Learning to get things out and put them away again!

Sharing with each other

Learning with our teacher

Doing fastenings

Learning to build a tower with blocks in size order

Proud of her tower!

Working together using different shapes

Another proud builder!

Using the fantastic natural wood for building

Concentration...

An engineer in the making?

Cooking with our teacher

Making dinner

Cutting up some fruit

I like playing!

Exploring the farm

We like the animals!

Playing together

I have some nice video of the children playing in here too, but I will have to wait until I have proper internet back to upload that. Meanwhile I hope you enjoy the photos!

By the way the staff meeting about the Montessori room went better than I was expecting, we had some good discussion on how some of the things could be used to complement the curriculum, and the teacher who is less enthusiastic actually pointed out that a lot of equipment is cross-curricular so the children learn more than one thing when doing an activity! This was great progress - thank you God! Next meeting (which has now been postponed because I've been away) each teacher (including me) has prepared to tell us all about one of the pieces of sensorial equipment, which I think are the hardest to understand and use. I hope it will be a useful session.