Welcome to life at Planted Seed Montessori School
June 2024
Tree climbing as usual!
Everyone is welcome here!
Walking through the trees.
Goslings spotted along the way!
Our class walking to the arboretum.
Learning all about honey bees!
Honeycomb village.
Running through the forest.
Class field trip to the aquarium!
Exploring underwater.
Independent Montessori learning with the guidance and support of our teachers!
Our gym has been taken over by Royal City Science for all of June for their Climate Quest Exhibit, full of educational and interactable activities teaching us and our children about our impact on the earth!
May 2024
Peaceful mornings here at Planted Seed Montessori School. Our 3-hour Montessori block every morning allows our students to have plenty of uninterrupted time engaging and learning with the support, warmth and guidance of their teachers.
Reading and language lesson.
Class meeting on the steps of our school!
Collecting the invasive and edible Garlic Mustard Seed! Our students, while learning about invasive species and our local ecosystem, found and foraged enough Garlic Mustard Seed to make a delicious pesto sauce in their cooking lesson.
Our students enjoying an outdoor snack in the sunshine.
Finding friends everywhere we go.
April 2024
Weaving nature into our everyday learning.
Cursive lesson! Effortlessly Montessori, enhancing fine motor skills, integrating movement with learning, honoring historical and cultural traditions. As well as improving reading skills, fostering personal expression and creativity.
Visiting Green Legacy where our students got to plant trees for our community and learn from the land!
Learning Ringette for our Physical Education lesson block today!
Our class playing Ringette thanks to the Guelph Predators Ringette Association.
Flossing the big teeth! Hands-on learning with Just Kids: Smile Town Dentistry, who came in to give our students an educational presentation, Q & A with a dental professional and a fun cleaning activity!
October 2023
Springing into the Season: Gardening with our students.
Class Compost Party!
Rosie taking our class for a walk through our Outdoor Classroom, which was Guelph Lake today.
Pressed-leaf art making.
Lessons by the river and bird watching with our teachers. Welcome to the ever-changing Outdoor Classroom!
Learning on the Speed River.
Apple picking at Ignatius and exploring the 500 Year Old Growth Forest!
Climbing the trees.
Admiring the view.
Apple adventures.
A memorial foraged and created by our students for a fallen snake friend.
September 2023
The First Great Lesson: The Beginning of the Universe and Earth. Introducing students to the science-based concept of the universe's origin, presented as a dramatic story with experiments.
This lesson covers the Big Bang theory, formation of stars and planets, and the creation of Earth, laying the groundwork for further studies in astronomy, geology, and geography.