Snapshots from Today

Working with pressure cylinders from the sensorial shelf.

Working with knob less cylinders and extension cards from the sensorial shelf.

Working on Practical Life.
Left: Arranging flowers in vases. Right: Chopping apple slices for snack.

Culture and Geography area this week

Matching puzzle map of Europe with labeled control map.

Matching puzzle map of Asia with labeled control map.

Matching child size version of items used at Mass to cards and labels.

Working on a puzzle of the parts of a leaf from the Botany shelf.

January Continent Studies: Asia

The children will be learning about the continent of Asia for geography/cultural studies, during the month of January. As part of this study, yesterday the children attended an exciting and beautiful performance of the Peking Acrobats from China, including live music with Chinese instruments. They will also be working with cards depicting Asian foods, music instruments, landmarks, and Catholic missions and faithful in Asia. The children will also be working with the puzzle map of Asia, taking a look at some miniature replicas of Asian animals, learning about various Asian inventions, learning about Asian martyrs and making Asian snacks, amongst other things! Today the children especially enjoyed making an Asian fruit salad and chopping their own fruit in Practical Life for snack.

Below are some images of what the children saw at the Peking Acrobat show. These images were taken from various sources online, as cameras were not allowed:





We are always looking for various objects, such as coins, textile samples, small dolls, small pottery, post cards, miniature flags, Catholic images, etc... from around the world as part of our geography/cultural studies in both the 3-6 and the 6-9 class. If you have some items you would like to donate, please contact us by email at: sfoama@gmail.com
Thank you and God Bless!

A look back at Fall/Winter 09'

A visit to a local organic farm for an Autumn nature walk:

The children made pumpkin bread from scratch and delivered it to the volunteers of Project Defending Life on the feast day of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. The children used nuts they had cracked in one of their Practical Life activities, and had to follow a sequence of simple recipe cards to know when to mix and how much to pour, etc...
In December, the children learned about the various music instruments heard in an orchestra, learned about ballet, and attended a performance of The Nutcracker.
The month of December brought about a study of Mexico which included coins, books, textiles and indigenous dolls that the children could touch and become familiar with. There was also a music lesson on the instruments used by the mariachi in preparation for a live show featuring dance and music that we attended. December also had the children making corn tortillas from masa and cooking them for snack, and also a study of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Mexican Christmas tradition of Las Posadas.