Lower Elementary North

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The upcoming three day weekend will be well deserved for both students and teachers.  It has been a very busy week!  In order to reach normalization in the classroom there is much orientation going on.  Students have been taking in an immense amount of information regarding the routine in the classroom as well as expectations...
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This week in our classroom, we introduced the miniature environment.  This material allows students to set up the environment and write sentences with the different parts of speech.  Younger students are focusing on shorter sentences using articles, adjectives, nouns and verbs.  They are also practicing sentence structure.  Older students focus on longer sentences adding prepositions...
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The weather outside hasn’t changed much with the chilly temperatures, but we have new units, in the classroom, that have changed! Our newest math unit is graphing.  Students will be exploring pictographs, bar graphs, and pie graphs.  Gathering, collecting, and interpreting numerical information is a necessary skill. In Zoology, our mammal study has begun. It...
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Happy Montessori Education Week! This week was filled with school spirit and all about celebrating 40 remarkable years of MSBG. Throughout the week the school, parents, community, staff, and students were shown appreciation. The students and staff were able to participate in the spirit-filled week by wearing a special thing for each day from ruby...
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Welcome back from your 5-day weekend. Thank you for meeting with us for conferences. The students are always excited to know that we are sharing with you all the work they have been doing. This week we have journeyed to a new continent on our Geography shelf. We are studying Europe. If you have traveled...
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Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!! May the joy of love and peace surround you today and everyday!! Although this was a short work week, the students found time to work on the new work on the Word Study shelf.  Second and third year students will be exploring prefixes and suffixes.  They will have an opportunity to...
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On the math shelf, we have added measurement work.  At their introductory lesson, younger students measured with non-standard units and were introduced to the ruler, which has inches and centimeters.  Older students, will be working with metric and standard measure.  We will also learn and review measurements that include weight and liquid volume.  This is...
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For the past week students have been exploring the continent of Australia on the Geography shelf.  This week students from both lower classrooms were presented even more information about Australia from Mr. Dave (Isaac’s dad and Upper Elementary teacher).  With this presentation, students were able to learn about animals of Australia, the Australian flag, the...
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Welcome back. We hope that at you were all able to stay healthy and enjoy the extended weekend. The students are continuing to further their learning of Australia, Birds, Skeletal System and the Days of the Week for the culture units. During writers workshop time, each level is practicing writing mechanics. We will start our...
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The students continue to work on the many new units that we presented last week upon our return.  We have added Dictionary Work to the language shelf which is a good followup to the Alphabetizing Unit.  Younger students are introduced to this resource book, while older students begin to look for words on their spelling...
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