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3- to 4-year-old kids: 

• Learning to hold a pencil while tracing her dotted name. 

• Counting colorful bead bars and coloring them on a special paper and stamping the corresponding numeral. 

• Tracing the letter “a” on a large sandpaper card and saying the sound it makes. 

• Enjoying the wooden continents puzzle map and coloring their own on paper. 

• Scrubbing and polishing a shoe. 

• Learning to button or buckle on one of our dressing frames. 

• Comparing the sizes of 10 cubes each decreasing by 1 cm while building the Pink Tower. 

• Tracing geometric shapes insets. 

• Tracing a picture of an African animal on the Light board. 

• Being guided and helped by an older child. 

4- to 5-year-old kids: 

• Sounding out with passion and conviction the word cat: "c" - "a" - " t" and writing it down by taking one letter at a time from the large movable alphabet box while being observed by a 3-year-old friend. 

• Coloring the flag of one of the countries in South America. 

• Focused on arranging the numbered tiles in sets of 10s on a the square 100 board. 

• Walking through a spiral built with 10 long red wooden rods and carrying a bowl of water. 

• Pouring water in the archipelago model and coloring that page in the landforms booklet. 

• Adding numbers with the addition strip board. 

• Labeling and coloring the Monarch butterfly life cycle. 

5- to 6-year-old kids: 

• Researching the life cycle of a platypus and finishing the parts of its body booklet. 

• Labeling the 1,000 chain comprised of 100 ten golden bead bars and joyfully skip-counting by tens. 

• giving a hug to a crying 3-year-old friend, who is missing their mom - offering a cup of water and a smile. 

• Building the trinomial cube. 

• Creating a butterfly with the color gradation tablets with a friend. 

• Working as a team as they lay out a bird’s eye view of the decimal system from 1 to 9000. 

• Writing a story in their journal. 

• Painting a rainbow at the easel while singing their favorite song: "Bluebonnet Montessori, where seeds of knowledge are sown .... this is our school where our hearts feel at home, together we learn, together we grow". 

In the backyard, under the generous shade of the large live oaks, a group of kids are checking out the rocks in the garden for prehistoric fossils, while others are planting milkweed for the Monarch butterflies and watering the cherry tomatoes, basil, and rosemary in the raised garden. Four friends are sweeping the flagstone path in the garden, while a team of five kids are stretching the long measuring tape around the circular sandbox stonewall. Some a wearing the Monarch Butterfly wings skipping joyfully around the gardens and others are digging and transporting in the sandbox or building the biggest sand volcano. Art projects on the picnic tables under the live oaks are always fun! Planting seeds and bulbs in the winter is a gift of joy and anticipation of the magic revealed in springtime as they sprout and grow! The watering 

cans are easy to reach, and the kids know the flowers and veggies need water and sunshine! It’s spring and time to plant milkweed for the migrating Monarch butterflies and nectar flowers for the bees and hummingbirds! We hand the hummingbird feeders, and the kids help refill the sugar water and eagerly await the arrival of the first hummingbirds!