Culture And Science

This area of the classroom exposes the child to basics in geography, history, zoology and botany. The children gain an awareness of the world around them by exploring other countries, their customs, food, music, climate, language and animals. This helps to raise their consciousness about other people, to gain an understanding and tolerance and, therefore, compassion for all the people in the world.

In Geography the large wood puzzle maps are among the most popular activities in our classroom. At first, the children use the maps simply as puzzles. Gradually, they learn the names of many continents and countries as well as information about climate and products. The maps illustrate many geographical facts concretely. Children also learn the common land formation such as islands and peninsulas. In the picture below, the student is placing North America in its location on the map of the world.

The student is working on a Zoology puzzle of the fish.

The students are enjoying working together on a floor puzzle of the seven continents.

Hands-on learning of the concept of land and water. Shown below are the land and water forms of an island and a lake.

Sensorial

The Sensorial Materials in the Montessori classroom help children to distinguish, to categorize, and to relate new information to what they already know. Dr. Montessori believed that this process is the beginning of conscious knowledge. It is brought about by the intelligence working in a concentrated way on the impressions given by the senses.

This area enable children to order, classify and describe impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, color and other characteristics.The child in the picture below is arranging cylinders by grading the diameter.

The students are exploring shapes in the form of a puzzle. The student is exploring and grading the concept of small/large and thin/thick using the Montessori materials: Pink Tower and Brown Stairs. The student is giving a presentation of how to stack cubes to make a tower to friends. Together they are learning the concept of small/large. By isolating into the sense of touch, the student is learning the textures of rough and smooth.

The student is grading the cylinders by height and diameter. Each color set differ in height and diameter.

The student is working on an extension with the knobless cylinders (red, green and yellow), thus grading 3 different knobless cylinders in height and diameter to build a tower.

Practical Life

In Practical Life the children perfect their coordination and become absorbed in activity. They gradually lengthen their span of concentration. They also learn to pay attention to details as they follow a regular sequence of actions. Finally, they learn good working habits as they finish each task and put away all the materials before beginning another activity.

Art Center

Library

Coleman Montessori Center would like to thank the customers of Borders' Salmon Run Mall for the book donations to our library during our featured book donation drive at Borders.

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Coleman Montessori Center at Burrville Cider Mill

The children, parents and staff of Coleman Montessori Center truly enjoyed our tour of Burrville Cider Mill and the sweet cider and donuts. We kindly thank you!

Burrville Cider Mill's tour guide shared that all apples are inspected and washed before going through the process of making cider.

Apples are first made into applesauce which includes all parts of the apple. The children are looking at and touching the texture of the applesauce. The applesauce is pressed to make juice for cider. The dried applesauce is used to feed farm animals. Nothing goes to waste!

Thank you Burrville Cider Mill for a fun and educational tour. We look forward to coming back next school year.