On Wednesday, November 16 two pilgrims came to Brookeside Montessori to tell us the story of the first Thanksgiving. They showed our curious students foods the pilgrims would have eaten and the tools they would have used. After the presentation, each class had an opportunity to use these items. At the end of the event each child got to meet Jack, a live turkey.
We had such a blast with the pilgrims from Quiver Farms, who came to visit us and share the history of Thanksgiving. We not only learned about the history, but also the meaning behind the turkey. We played traditional pilgrim games, husked corn, muddled cranberries into a sauce, grounded corn into cornmeal, and pet a real turkey named Jack!
Preschool and Enrichment students at Brookeside Montessori School have been busy this November! They learned about testing and mapping their taste buds during our systems of the body unit in health class, and watched a hot air balloon near our school -- just in time for our science unit on air, land and water!
Congratulations to Mrs. Marks, our Pre-School and Enrichment teacher, on her efforts to secure a $500 grant from the National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization and Tractor Supply Company! As a grant recipient, Brookeside Montessori is paired with the Tractor Supply Store in Quakertown and we'll be working closely with them in the springtime when it's time to get our school garden started.
This week in Miss Poley's Pre-K class at Brookside Montessori School, we made sunflowers out of paper plates, bubble wrap, construction paper, and paint. We learned about the life cycle of a sunflower, parts of the flower and read a story about how to grow sunflowers in our garden. As a culminating activity, we acted as scientists and dissected a real sunflower!
