June 28th, 2017|Calendar|
By Vivian Cain
Watch your child’s face light up when you remove that first rubber band from their tie-dyed T-shirt. It is truly amazing the designs that one can create with so few tools. See what rubber bands, marbles, crumbling, scrunching or twisting the fabric can do to create unique patterns and spirals!!
June 28th, 2017|Calendar|
By Vivian Cain
Put on those helmets and bring your bikes or trikes to school! Race and dash through creative and fun obstacle courses to make your way through cones, laundry baskets, car washes, and tires, etc. What a fun way to great exercise!
June 28th, 2017|Calendar|
By Vivian Cain
Enjoy summertime fun through a two-week Spanish-filled cultural excursion. Lango campers spend each week immersed in an exciting part of the Latin American world. They include:
Welcome to the Latin Kitchen: the Delectable recipe! YUM! Students will learn to make Hispanic dishes from scratch where the student will perform all the food prep from dicing, blending, grating and mixing to create delectable eats from Latin America to create tropical salads to Yucca Chip with homemade avocado dressing for dipping to Morir Sonando Tropical drinks, Lucy Lime Fizz and Coconut Lime Pie Shake. Delectable treats indeed!
Language: Students will learn the Montessori Curriculum in Spanish along with Spanish books, music, and puppets to enhance the curriculum.
Dance: Students will dress in authentic costumes to learn the Meringue Dance of the Dominican Republic, which will culminate in a dance performance for the parents.
Cultural Outing: After a
June 28th, 2017|Calendar, Uncategorized|
Wraparound Care – Teacher Music Training
June 22nd, 2017|Calendar, Guide|
By Laura Lewis Brown
Published by PBS Kids
As you search for the best preschool for your child you’ll need to consider the school’s philosophy or approach. Learn about the most prevalent preschool philosophies to help you choose a school that meets your child’s needs.
Philosophy
This approach, developed by Maria Montessori in Rome in the early 1900s, is child-centered, with teachers serving as guides. In the Montessori school, play is a child’s work, says Wana. While there is a focus on academics, the distinguishing feature is that children learn at their own pace. There are special Montessori toys called manipulatives that are self-corrective; this means that a child knows if they assembled a puzzle correctly, for example, based on the toy fitting together, not because someone showed the child how to do it. “In Montessori programs it’s really the teacher’s job
June 19th, 2017|Calendar, Guide, Parent|
There are seven simple steps to becoming a Montessori parent. When we say simple we don’t mean that they are not challenging. It is a lot like the definition of bull riding. “The object is to keep the bull between you and the ground.” Simple – but challenging.
The first step to becoming a Montessori parent took place when you enrolled your child in a Montessori program. That in itself is a challenge. Most of us weren’t raised in a Montessori school. The whole concept is foreign and takes a bit of courage to step out of the norm and our comfort zone. We may have chosen the program because it wasn’t like our school experience (which is why we chose it.) Or we chose it because we saw something unique in a Montessori child we knew. Or we were just plain lucky and stumbled on to a
