Poking

Have you ever heard your child talk about "poking" and wondered what they were talking about? Well, we're here to tell you!

Poking involves a large thumb tack, a carpet square and an image on card stock. The child uses a large thumb tack to poke around the image outlined on the paper. Poking around the outline perforates the image so that its easily detached. The act of poking aids in the development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. It also mimics holding a pencil - which is important for handwriting skills.

Chick-a-dees

Here are two of our nine chicks...aren't they something else? The kids sure think so!

NINE!!

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was to go into school today and see how many chicks hatched last night...can you imagine how our children felt?? I was beyond giddy this morning when Ms. Emily told me there were NINE new baby chicks!! Honestly, I can't wait to go back in a few hours to see how many more there will be!!

Baby Chicks!!

If you have or know a child in one of our primary classes than you surely have heard about our chicken eggs!! Both the red room & the blue room have egg incubators and each hold about 30 eggs! As our children are learning, it takes about 21 days for a chick to hatch from an egg. During that time the eggs must be kept at a certain temperature and turned several times a day. Normally, a brooding mother chicken would do all this work, but seeing as we don't have 30+ chickens in our rooms we are using egg incubators to do the work for us!

Along with the incubators each classroom has their own "demonstration" egg. This set of 21 eggs shows the daily progression of a chick in the egg during their 21 day gestation period. Its not unusual, first thing in the morning, for the children run to look at that day's egg to see how the baby chicks have developed.

Today we had some very, very "egg-citing" news in the red room...our first chick hatched from it's shell, soon followed by another chick! When we left the class room at the end of the day there were 2 hatched chicks and several cracked eggs rocking & rolling!!

Thanks to InterfaceFlor for making the incubators and demonstration eggs possible! Last year, Ms. Audrey, from the red room, and Ms. Teresa from the Blue room. wrote & received a grant for this amazing project!

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Welcome to the 1st Presybyterian Montessori blog! We hope that this will be a place for you to keep up with the current events of our little school, learn more about the philosophy of Montessori and watch as your children learn and grow in a safe, warm environment. We plan on having posts from our Director, Pat Headrick, a teacher or two, perhaps something from a parents perspective and most definitely we'll have input from some of our students!!

Since no blog is complete without images we'll try to keep this one full of fun pictures so keep your eyes out for your precious children! We will never post your child's name and only post pictures of children whose parents signed the consent form at the beginning of the year.

If you have any questions of comments please do not hesitate to let us know! You can contact us at 706.812.8513.