This week at MES

There was a special visitor in class this week. His name is Molar Man and he talked to everyone about dental health. Each child was given a toothbrush as well as a toothy coloring sheet and a pack of crayons to bring home with them.

In class, Nicholas learned about harvesting. He practiced his cutting and pasting skills and he was excited to explain his work to me. He worked on musical phonics and words which begin with "t". He also learned how to work Montessori knobless cylinder extensions. For math, Nicholas worked on the Montessori spindle box and practiced the addition of one. He is still talking about a rice activity that he told me about last week. I think this is one of his favorite activities to work on for the time being. The Good Shepherd lesson for this week was on Daniel.

On Wednesday, I had to go to the school office to pick up items for the school book fair that I'm volunteering for next week. So instead of dropping Nicholas off in the car line, I parked and walked him to class. He was so proud to have me in his class, even if it was just for a few minutes. Mrs. Carrico has each student sign their name when they come into class so they can practice writing their name. She has their names already written out on the page with a yellow highlighter. This helps the children to focus solely on pencil control and their fine motor skills since some of them can not spell their names yet.

On Thursday, the class had "Show and Tell". Nicholas chose to bring the little cardinal and nest that I used in my educational playgroup presentation on birds. We had a special box picked out to put it in and everything. However, as we were heading out the door in the morning, Nicholas changed his mind and decided he wanted to bring his "Handy, Dandy Notebook" which is a little notebook he has like the one on the cartoon "Blues Clues". It has laminated pages and you can write on it with a crayon and then wipe it off. Although I thought the bird and nest was a much better (and more educational) item to bring to show and tell, I let Nicholas bring his notebook. We cleaned off all the pages and picked out a new crayon for him to bring with it. After school he said that he was glad he brought the notebook. And, of course, I'm glad I let him.

Oh, I almost forgot! Nicholas was the class leader this week. Let me tell you, he was so proud of this! He talked about it to me every day. Anytime the class lined up to leave the class for chapel, the art room, P.E., or anything, Nicholas got to be the line leader. He loved it!