Open School Night

Last night(Wednesday) Madison's school had Open School Night when the parents get to come to school and learn about things they do and the school rules, etc... All the kids played outside while we watched a video of what Montessori way of teaching is... It was really good, there were a lot of things that we were already doing with Madison that is classified as Montessori teaching methods like letting her water plants, measuring ingredients, brushing teeth, washing her own body, making sure Ellie's water and food bowl is stocked and refilling, etc... Unless it's dangerous we encourage her to do things herself and we were glad to know that those experiences are helping her development and her self esteem...:-) I don't know if you are familiar with Montessori Teaching but the lady in the video said by letting the children be part of everything we(parents) do they feel a sense of purpose and belonging... Which we think is really neat and everyday we are really thankful that God led us to this school...

After we were done all the kids came in and it was the children's turn to show their parents what they do at school, Yay!! Madison first grabbed the play dough set but she quickly moved on to show us how she washes the baby... which was what we wanted to see since we hear about her washing a baby all the time and how much she loves it... So here it is...:-) I love how she puts on the heavy duty apron on!

Then she showed us how she can pour...

Lastly she showed us how she can transfer liquids...

As you can see Madison LOVES playing with water!!

I forgot to take a picture of this but there is a job chart in the classroom where each child is assigned to a task every week like feeding the classroom fish, vacuuming the carpet, washing dishes, etc... Well this week she is in charge of vacuuming the carpet...but here are a couple pics of pics of her working on different tasks during her day.

Isn't she quite the little concentrator :-)