If you step into the 9-12 year old classroom today you will think you are in ancient Egypt! The students are engaged in a simulation of ancient Egypt. They are working in collaborative groups to create a 3-D map that includes major cities, geographical features, houses, farms and fields and of course the famous landmarks....Read More
Early Childhood introduced new math units this week. West is now learning about money and identifying the names and values of coins while East is learning about time and telling time on the hour and half-hour. East students also added swaddling and diapering a baby doll to Practical Life; a wonderful care for other work!...Read More
Greetings, readers! This is Matthew Bostic. I’m here to inform you about the top news about Upper West! We have gotten 2 pets over the last few weeks. Olivia H. brought in praying mantis eggs, and our teachers, Mr. Dave and Miss Natasha, got two hermit crabs from the middle schoolers! Those are some pretty...Read More
While the students continue to master the math process and move on to new individualized lessons, we have also introduced a new math unit. We are learning about fractions. The students enjoy working with our fraction metal insets. They are also investigating fractions with number lines, comparing fractions and equivalencies, story problems, adding/subtracting and reducing fractions. This is one of...Read More
Early Childhood introduced new math units this week. West is now learning about money and identifying the names and values of coins while East is learning about time and telling time on the hour and half-hour. East students also added swaddling and diapering a baby doll to Practical Life; a wonderful care for other work!...Read More
While the students continue to master the math process and move on to new individualized lessons, we have also introduced a new math unit. We are learning about fractions. The students enjoy working with our fraction metal insets. They are also investigating fractions with number lines, comparing fractions and equivalencies, story problems, adding/subtracting and reducing fractions. This is one of...Read More
The students had a lot of fun participating in Montessori Education Week. It is always a comfort to see children enjoying books and reading. On Wednesday, in collaboration with the theme of reading for this week, the students watched a virtual reading from author Alice Walker. She read her book Sweet People Everywhere, which is a...Read More
This week is Montessori Education Week! We started out on Monday dressed as our favorite book character. Some of our classmates were dressed as Harry Potter, Red Riding Hood and lots of others! Our class had Music and math lessons. Tuesday we celebrated “Hats Off to Parents!” and read a book called “Caps for Sale”....Read More
