

MLC Pumpkin Picking
Another beautiful MLC Pumpkin Picking celebration at Demarest Farms 😊🎃 #pumpkinpicking


Sense of Touch Week
It was all about exploring the Sense of Touch in the Orchard classroom this week! The classroom areas were filled with Montessori materials such as the touch tablets, the touch bag, fabric matching, and touch books and puzzles. The children got to discover different textures using their hands and feet. They were taught how to describe what they were feeling using terms such as rough, smooth, bumpy, sticky, hot, cold etc. They made texture books in the art area. They explored


Sense of Taste Week
It's all about tasting in the Orchard class this week! The children have sampled candy corns, bananas, potato chips, lemons, unsweetened chocolate and a host of other foods. They are learning about the role of our tongue in sampling foods and the fact that we have taste buds. They are being taught how to use the terms salty, sweet, sour and bitter to describe the foods they are tasting. The children have spent two days sampling different foods and have been charting whether o


The Ridgewood Fire Department Visits MLC
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Sense of Sight Week
Today, as we continued to learn about the Sense of Sight, we took the children on a Sight walk and explored the area around our school. They had a lot of fun using the homemade binoculars they had made earlier in the week. They were excited to spot school buses, leaves, police cars, birds and a real bird's nest, insects and a variety of other things. No doubt they have already told you all about it! I have attached some pictures below for you to enjoy! #oursenses