New School Montessori preprimary students and kindergartners are learning about reptiles. To better understand those reptiles who shed their skin, teachers have prepared a molting work for the shelf. Students paint some glue on their hand, wait for it to dry, feel the skin tighten underneath and then peel it off. As you might imagine, the children love this work and strive to pull off the biggest pieces they can.
Also on the shelf are works that include cutting paper snakes from brightly colored wrapping paper, drawing and labeling the parts of a turtle and scrubbing turtles. During the turtle bathing process, students are careful to scrub both side A and side B – the plastron and the carapace.
