Leamington Montessori Nursery School

Exploring our sensorial materials in various ways! 💗🟫
By combining the Pink Tower and the Broad Stair, our little Montessorians created towers, stairs, and imaginative structures—developing visual discrimination and learning about volume, shape, sorting, ordering, and grading.
Through this hands-on activity, they also expanded new language, explored early mathematical concepts, and practiced working as a team.

“Learning is an adventure of the mind.”
— Maria Montessori

Sunny garden days spent making bird feeders 🌿
Learning the names, characteristics, and songs of our garden birds as we get ready for the Big Garden Birdwatch 🐦☀️
“The best teaching tool is the environment itself.”
— Maria Montessori





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✨ Diwali at Leamington Montessori Nursery! ✨
We were so delighted to welcome Miss Vishakha and her daughter Aanya, one of our very first Montessori students back to nursery to lead our beautiful Diwali celebration! 🪔💛
The children loved listening to Diwali stories, joining in songs and prayers, dressing up in traditional clothes, exploring our dress-up box, admiring the sparkle of Indian lights, and enjoying some truly amazing food and flavours. 🌸🎶🎆🍛
It was a wonderful way to learn about the Festival of Lights, full of colour, joy, and togetherness. A heartfelt thank you to Miss Vishakha and Aanya for sharing this special celebration with us! 🌟
“The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.” — Dr. Maria Montessori 💫

🌞✨ The Montessori Birthday Game ✨🌞
In Montessori classrooms, birthdays are celebrated with a meaningful ritual called the Orbital Walk. 🌎
At the center of the circle, we place a candle, glowing gently to represent the sun — the light and warmth at the heart of our solar system. 🕯️☀️
The birthday child carries a globe and makes one orbit around the candle for each year of their life. As they walk, we look at photos from each year, starting from birth, remembering milestones, noticing how they’ve grown, and reflecting on how the months, seasons, and years have changed with them. 🍂❄️🌸🌞
It’s a peaceful moment of wonder, a celebration of time, growth, and the child’s unique journey around the sun. 💛

“The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings becomes one with life itself.”
— Maria Montessori

🌾 Harvest Visit to the Church with Our Little Montessorians 🌾🥮
This week has been full of learning, gratitude, and giving as we celebrated Harvest time with our little Montessorians. As part of our learning about farming and where our food comes from, we’ve been exploring the importance of the Harvest Festival, a time to give thanks for the food we have and to think of others who may not have as much.
On our special visit to the local church, we brought along food donations for the food bank, teaching our children about helping others and giving back. We were warmly welcomed by Reverend Sue, who is truly one of the best storytellers we know! The children were captivated by her story and joined in with joyful singing.
🎶 We’ve also been learning and singing “Cauliflowers Fluffy” throughout the week—such a fun and catchy way to celebrate the colours and joy of harvest!
We’re so proud of our little Montessorians for their kindness, enthusiasm, and curiosity this week. 💛 Let’s all take a moment to be grateful for the food we eat, the people who grow and harvest it, and the chance to help others in our community. 🌾🥮🍎🍏🍐

“The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.”
– Maria Montessori

What a lovely football session we had with one of our lovely parents Palwinder, who came in this week and taught us how to play football! ⚽️
Palwinder, who currently coaches the Khalsa Tigers Under 8s, truly inspired us all with his energy and passion.
It was the most fun and engaging lesson, all of us had such a great time, and we’re really looking forward to the next session! 🙌

“The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.”

– Maria Montessori

Spring is finally here, and we’ve been making the most of the warm sunshine!

Our veg patch is growing strong, and we even spotted our first radish. The bluebells are in full bloom, and the seeds we planted have turned into shoots that are growing stronger by the day. We’ve been carefully watering our flowers and veg patch, learning how to care for the plants as they grow—and we’ve also been learning all about the life cycles of plants!

We’ve been busy with lots of outdoor fun too—building dens, playing shops, whipping up delicious meals in the mud kitchen, and enjoying group time and picnic-style lunches under the open sky.
What a joyful start to the season! 🌺🌸🌼☀️🥒🌱🥕🌿💦

“There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.”
-Maria Montessori

Happy Mother’s Day to the beautiful, inspiring ladies in our lives! Our little Montessorians have been very busy this week, creating adorable hedgehog talisman bracelets as a token of appreciation for everything you do and for your unconditional love. 🦔💕🙏🪻🌹🌸🌺🌷🌻

“Children become like the things they love”
-Maria Montessori

Happy New 2025! 🎆🎇🥳🎉💕
We hope everyone had a magical Christmas!

We had so much fun throughout December. We created our very own advent calendar, putting our Montessori beads to good use. Each day, we added a bead to a glass jar to mark the passing days of December. To represent the quantity of beads, we pegged a wooden numeral inside a star and hung it from a string on our window. The glass jar filled up a little more each day as we gathered around our Christmas wreath during group time and added the next number to our advent calendar.

We lit a candle, dimmed the lights, and sang Christmas carols while gazing at the twinkling lights on our Christmas tree and listening to Christmas tales. We baked gingerbread men to raise money for Save the Children and proudly wore our Christmas jumpers. We also made beautiful angels out of paper plates and baked orange slices to decorate our Christmas tree.

We enjoyed a Christmas trail in the churchyard and visited the beautiful church, where we were warmly welcomed by Reverend Sue, the best storyteller in the world. She shared the Nativity story with us, using her wonderful handmade props crafted by the local community. She even gave us stars to decorate and helped us hang them up.

To top it all off, we had a festive Christmas party with live music. Eva, an upcoming young star studying music at university, sang Christmas carols to the children. We all danced, celebrated the last day of term, and enjoyed some delicious party food. 🥳🎉🎄🎁💕

Celebrating Bonfire Night at Leamington Montessori was a wonderful opportunity to learn essential survival skills, including fire safety, setting up a fire, managing risks, and moving safely around a fire circle. This experience also gave us the chance to have conversations, read stories, and enjoy our snacks outdoors while watching the fire.

We spent the day outside and even prepared delicious sticky toffee apples in the garden.

We are thrilled with our Forest School training and can’t wait to become an official Forest School, in addition to being a Montessori nursery school. 🌍🌳🔥🍏🍎🌸🍁🍂🦔🧡

“Let the children be free…let them run outside when it is raining…let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water.”

Last week, we had a lovely art session led by one of our parents, Matt, an art teacher, who was assisted by his wife, Daisy. Before his visit, Matt’s students at school created some autumn animal printing tiles, which our little Montessorians thoroughly enjoyed using with ink and rollers. Matt’s students also painted a large tree and made leaf stamps so our children could print leaves onto it. The art activities were a great success, and our children were truly immersed in the session, enthusiastically printing autumn animals with the tiles and mixing colors to achieve earthy autumn tones for the tree leaf-printing activities. The children were provided with freedom of movement, choice, and time for repetition, which kept them so engaged in the activities that they even spontaneously extended the session into writing and printing numbers.

Such an inspiring activity-we can’t wait to have another art session very soon! 🧡🍂🐿️🦔🦉🍁🎨🖌️💛

“ Art is one of the many ways children express themselves. Art is a way for children to communicate their feelings. It is through art that children develop their fine motor skills.”
-Maria Montessori