Sharing Poetry
In the Grade Two classroom we have been talking about poetry as a unique and powerful form of expression. The students have been learning about poetry devices, including, but not limited to, rhyme, personification, alliteration and simile. They have been challenging themselves to use these in their own writing. For the lesson in the photographs, the […]
Big Ideas in Small Packages
On Thursday, December 11, MYP 4 students were afforded the opportunity to step out of Humanities and enter the world of similes and syllables, rhythm and rhyme… grade two style! During this unit’s program of inquiry, Mr. Bradley’s second grade students have been exploring poetry, focussing on expressing themselves, and their perspective of the world, […]
Sensorial Activities in the Lotus Cottage
Montessori education follows children’s natural interests and sensitivities for each age group. Young children naturally love exploring the world around them with all of their senses. The Sensorial Area of the Montessori classroom is full of materials that isolate a particular quality to explore: dimension, size, shape, color, sound, texture, smell, etc. Young children engage […]
How Do We Really Know Where “Here” Is?
As I’m sure Douglas Adams would agree, the notion of whether time, place, and space are absolute, relative, ephemeral, or enduring, is essential to one’s understanding of life, the universe, and everything. Ultimately, time, place, and space are all human constructs, developed by societies to help them in their quest to determine where and how […]
From tiny acorns: Grades 4, 5 & 6 through Term 1.
As students paused to share their learning with their parents in Student Led Conferences, it seemed an appropriate juncture to harvest some of the images of the year so far in Grades 4, 5 & 6. As we enter December, the students have grown tremendously as inquirers and continue to blossom as critical thinkers within […]
Healthy Cooking with Toddlers
In the Bamboo cottage the children have been preparing their own snacks every day. This has been a great project that the children enjoy as part of their daily routine. As one of our students Austin exclaimed on Tuesday, “I can’t believe how wonderful the food is in this school. It’s amazing!” There’s no doubt […]
PYP Portfolios – What did you do at school today?
On Monday the 1st December, students will have the opportunity to share their learning with their parents during the Student Led Conferences. The Portfolio will play an integral role in this discussion of challenge and growth between parent and child. Within the realms of the IB Primary Years Programme curriculum, this journal of student learning […]
The Inklings.
What do the authors of “The Lord Of The Rings”, “The Hobbit” and “The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe” have in common? They share a location (Oxford), a friendship and a membership of a famous group known as “The Inklings.” Made of many other famous authors, this was a group that met every Tuesday […]
The Starry Night
Arguably the Dutch artist’s most famous work, The Starry Night resides in The Museum Of Modern Art in New York but its sinewy brush strokes and nocturnal colours were very much alive in Grades 4, 5 & 6 this past week. Coming to the end of our unit examining cites and their characteristics, the students […]
Peek in the Lotus Cottage
This picture was taken during lunch in the Lotus Cottage! In a Montessori Early Childhood (age 3-6) classroom, students eat lunch together every day. These students set the table, serve themselves, eat, and, when they are finished, they wash their own dishes.
