// Curriculum Update: Week of Feb. 18 //

Our weather roller coaster continued this week, with temperatures in the 50s on Monday and then snow and ice on Wednesday, followed by more warmth and sunshine on Thursday— wow! What a pleasure to see so many children out and about in the snowy neighborhood with their friends or siblings!

Speaking of which, please remember that we do try to get outside as often as possible, and certainly we do on warmer days, even if there are puddles or slush. On such days, it’s so important to dress for the weather and/or have full changes of clothes available— socks, pants, underwear included (remember the ephemeral joy of sliding down a wet slide in winter? Initially exhilarating, then quickly just ...cold and wet). Inside shoes are also key items on mucky days, as the children spend so much time working at mats on the ground.

Indoors, the children have been taking care of the marigold seedlings (two of which have sprouted their first pair of true leaves!), making hearts to add to our tree in the hallways, and thinking of things the enjoy about school for a Montessori Week project. Kindergarten students have also become very interested in two new topics: a study of real bones Ms. Michele found on a hike (one friend thinks the bones are from a dinosaur; another friend thinks they are very clearly too small to belong to a dinosaur, but could not offer specifics— we sense a research opportunity....!), and units of measure. The boys have been using rulers and protractors to measure parts of triangles, and have decided that they’d like to measure more things, using more tools, in upcoming weeks. Stay tuned!