Summer Program begins
Our summer program runs for ten weeks, from June 12 through August 27. In the summer program, children can continue to work with the full spectrum of Montessori materials in their classroom. The summer program also takes advantage of pleasant morning weather outdoors, and children enjoy some extra outdoor activities.
In addition, summer presents some extra art projects, often related to a book or topic of interest.
Here, we see two children working with the cube off the trinomial. This is a challenging puzzle, which is also a concrete representation of (a+b+c) cubed!
Students develop their skills in observation in many ways. Through careful examination with a magnifying glass, and through experiments like sink and float.
In this experiment, the child anticipates what will happen (hypothesis). Will this item sink? or will it float? Then, placing the object in water, the child observes what happens. Removing the item, the child puts it on the classification sheet. Observing the final results… which items sank? which items floated?… the child may change his hypothesis about what sinks and what floats. In this simple, self-contained experiment, the child experiences the scientific method: hypothesis, experiment, observation, analysis.
