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📖 Every page turned is a new adventure! Reading together encourages curiosity, strengthens language skills, and sparks young imaginations. ✨

🌿🍃 Nature is our classroom!

Our little explorers headed out on another nature walk today, eager to discover the wonders around them. They collected rocks and other natural treasures, observed their surroundings, and shared thoughtful questions along the way. Every outdoor adventure inspires curiosity, exploration, and a deeper connection with nature. 💚

🚗✨ Earlier this week, our little learners became car designers and engineers!

Using paper plates, tissue paper, and their creativity, the children designed their own colourful cars while strengthening their fine motor skills. They also put their creations to the test by driving toy cars through tunnels, exploring movement, problem-solving, and cause-and-effect through hands-on play.

Learning is always an adventure at Angus Valley Montessori! 🚘💙

It’s time for our July Parent Question! ☀️🎨

What’s the most creative thing your child has made or imagined recently? 🌟🖍️

Comment below and share! Whether it’s an imaginative story, a unique piece of artwork, an inventive building creation, or a make-believe adventure, we’d love to hear about the wonderful ways your child expresses their creativity. 💛

Children's imaginations are full of endless possibilities, and we love celebrating the ideas, creations, and discoveries that make each child unique.

📚✨ Author Spotlight of the Month ✨📚

This month, we're featuring In My Room by Jo Witek, a heartwarming story that celebrates imagination, creativity, and the special spaces children create for themselves.

Through beautiful illustrations and engaging storytelling, In My Room encourages children to explore their thoughts, express themselves freely, and appreciate the comfort and joy found in everyday moments. It serves as a wonderful reminder that imagination can transform even the simplest spaces into places of adventure and discovery. 🌟

Reading stories like In My Room helps foster a love of literacy while encouraging children to develop creativity, confidence, and self-expression—values that are at the heart of Montessori learning. 💛

Have you and your child read this book together? Let us know your favourite part in the comments! 📖✨

Montessori classrooms are full of quiet creativity, a child arranging colours by shade, building a tower block by block, or carefully composing a picture. When children are given time, space, and simple materials, their imagination naturally comes to life.

Research summarized by Harvard and the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that play nurtures creativity, problem-solving, and emotional resilience. Through open-ended exploration, children practice thinking in flexible ways, a skill that supports both future learning and everyday life.

✨ Learn more about how play fuels creativity: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/power-of-play/Pages/the-power-of-play-how-fun-and-games-help-children-thrive.aspx?.com

🌧️ Enjoying the rain and the splashes outside! The children loved watching the cars pass by and listening to the sounds of the rainy day.

🔥🏕️ Campfire Friday fun! Today our little campers enjoyed making tasty s’mores, gathering around our pretend campfire, singing songs, listening to stories, and sharing lots of smiles and laughter. A sweet and memorable way to end the week! ❤️

🧊🔨 Our little learners enjoyed a fun Frozen Toy Rescue activity today! As they chipped away at the ice to free the hidden toys, they explored sensory play, problem-solving, and fine motor skills in an exciting hands-on way.