Blue Gum Montessori Preschool
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A MONTESSORI NATURE-PLAY PRESCHOOL BASED IN BLACKHEATH

 
 

Offering a quality program for children 2½ to 6 years, Blue Gum Montessori Preschool has been providing outstanding early childhood education to children and families of the Blue Mountains for over 40 years.

 

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A daily visual diary that highlights snapshots of our day, showcasing our learning environments and practices. @bluegum.montessori.preschool

We’re excited about our Teddy Bear’s picnic tomorrow. Today we decorated teddy pictures using material and pencils. “I’m going to give this to my teddy”, said one of the children.
Today we used mud to create stencil pictures. We placed a plastic stencil onto paper and then spread the mud over it. We then carefully lifted the stencil up to reveal the shape below.
Today is International Mud Day. We’ve been getting muddy at Blue Gum today! You might like to get muddy at home too. If you go to the Get Grubby link below you’ll find lots of great resources. Https://www.dirtgirlworldshop.com/dirtgirlwor
The children explored painting with feathers today and were pleasantly surprised at the different designs that came out.
Some of the older children are showing a very distinct interest in writing and reading, and made their own books today. 📖
The interest in ochre painting has lasted the whole week with children from the Monday/Tuesday class sharing with their Wednesday friends, who in turn shared with the Thursday/Friday class. Skills & knowledge transferral in real time!
The children enjoyed these new sensory additions to the classroom, with lots of discoveries on what the balls could do and how they could be played with.
Sandpaper letters are one of the more recognisable Montessori materials. The children trace the letters as they say the sounds.
A paint brush and a bucket of water provides an opportunity for children to express themselves on the fence. This activity is more often done in summer but as a child requested it we set it up today.
The easel was set up to invite print-making this afternoon but this child took things into her own hands (literally!) for some spontaneous hand-painting!
The children have been enjoying these little aircraft finger puppets, flying them in & our of the hangar. we noticed how the different aircraft have differently-shaped and -sized wings.