New Work = Busy Bees

It is busy in our classroom right now.  Everyone seems to have a purpose and is quietly going about their business.  One of the teachers said to me, "it is so quiet, it must be all that eating going on at the practical life shelf this week".  True enough, there is a lot of good food being consumed this week.  It is funny to watch everyone get excited about peeling and slicing up a hard boiled egg to eat!  One little boy had to bring his mom to the shelf to show her.  Monday morning we went through a dozen eggs!  I've had to put a limit on it.  It gets crazy expensive when your buying the free range organic kind.

mmmmmmm eggs are a good source of protein and fun to peel!

The eggs are nice and fresh.  You can tell a fresh egg from an old egg as fresh eggs are really hard to peel as you can see from this picture.  Fun, Fun, Fun.

Because there was such impatience waiting to get to the egg work we had to set up apple slicing as well.  I have to say it really does encourage good food choices and eating habits but also the follow through with clean up has been well received also.  When the children are done with their work, the tray must be washed at the sink counter and set back up for the next child.  The care taken to clean and put it all back really is something to see!

An Apple A day makes this little girl very happy and full!

Hands down I think making freshly squeezed orange juice is my favourite piece of work this time of the year.  Clementines work really well because of their size and they are much softer to squeeze.  We have a small glass reemer and they pour their juice into a glass to drink.  One Clementine makes a perfect size glass of juice.  We are going through lots of clementines.  One of the children remarked how he doesn't need to eat before he comes to school because he can have a second breakfast here.  Another child who was upset that he didn't get to the orange juice work today said that he would do apple work tomorrow and saturday when he came to school would be his day to make juice!

Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice Anyone?

This was a super fun game that Ms. Wendy set up for the older children.  They are to work in pairs and see who can melt their ice cube first.  If you scroll down you will see how we have the directions set up.  This is a game we found at My Montessori Journey.  I love her blog and sadly she isn't posting to it anymore.  

That's all for now.  I am really busy with a super big project that I am hoping to share at our next book club.  I am laminating like crazy!  I seem to always have a project on the go and it never feels like I have enough time.  hmmmmmm maybe I need another sick day.  ~m