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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Conferences
We are currently midway through our conference week. Conferences are exhausting for teachers, but can be absolutely wonderful on the other hand. We love meeting with the parents and finding out how things are going at home. I, personally, look forward to the questions that parents ask this time of year. The questions are so different at the fall conference than at the spring conference. Parents are so excited and eager to learn about the philosophy in the fall. I thought I would provide a list of possible questions that parents might want to ask their child's Montessori teacher at conferences:
Sunday, October 3, 2010
My Five Senses
Last Thursday and Friday, we discussed our five senses in great detail. One of our assistants brought in some plants from her garden so the children were able to differentiate between basil, lavender, and mint, among others. We placed them in glass bottles, added self-corrected stickers on the bottom, and by Friday we had smelling bottles!
On Friday, we spoke specifically about our sense of taste and the tongue. We looked at a diagram of the tongue and discussed sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Of course, to truly understand this concept we needed a taste test. We used paper plates divided into four sections. The children tasted sugar for sweet, salt (of course) for salty, lemon for sour, and unsweetened chocolate for bitter. That last one was hysterical. After three cheers for chocolate, and a brief explanation that this is chocolate WITHOUT SUGAR, the children tried the bitter food and were severely disappointed! Actually, disappointed isn't the word, it was more like disgusted. I wish I could have posted some of the faces we saw. We took a vote and zero children like bitter food!
Parents can get children more involved by reviewing the diagram of the tongue here.
On Friday, we spoke specifically about our sense of taste and the tongue. We looked at a diagram of the tongue and discussed sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Of course, to truly understand this concept we needed a taste test. We used paper plates divided into four sections. The children tasted sugar for sweet, salt (of course) for salty, lemon for sour, and unsweetened chocolate for bitter. That last one was hysterical. After three cheers for chocolate, and a brief explanation that this is chocolate WITHOUT SUGAR, the children tried the bitter food and were severely disappointed! Actually, disappointed isn't the word, it was more like disgusted. I wish I could have posted some of the faces we saw. We took a vote and zero children like bitter food!
Parents can get children more involved by reviewing the diagram of the tongue here.
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