Happy Montessori Education Week!  We loved celebrating Montessori with all of our students and families this week.  We dressed as teachers, wore our wackiest hairstyles, supported our community helpers, and enjoyed a special PJ Day!  In the classroom, we also explored bell matching and added our 1000 roll to our math shelf.  We created peace...Read More

Welcome back! Thank you again to all the families for your time and conversation during conferences! Students were able to enjoy another practical life food preparation work this week, Spreading Jam on a Cracker. This lesson emphasizes the skill of holding and using a spreader, concentrating on spreading jam, and of course eating the finished...Read More

We celebrated Valentine’s Day this week in EC!  On the art shelf we colored, cut, and delivered a Valentine to a friend.  We also had a special book and class treat, as well as passed out individual Valentine cards brought from home. We also painted a heart at the easel.  We are looking forward to...Read More

We introduced how to identify nouns in our classroom environment, and it is always fun to watch what students notice and write on their lists!  In practical life, we demonstrated banana slicing, using a special slicer.  Students could prepare this food and then enjoy eating.  Also in practical life, we introduced yarn snipping and the...Read More

Celebrating Chinese New Year this week was a focus in Early Childhood!  We created dragon masks and tails and had a special parade throughout the school with our West classroom and Toddler classroom friends. Our beautiful light table was introduced to the classroom. This work allows children to explore color and shape and how light refraction...Read More

We began our week with a new our geography unit-My School! My School allows the students to explore their place in a learning environment, match Montessori work and nomenclature, and write about why they love MSBG! In math, we explored money and learned the names and values of coins and bills. Our sensorial bells shelves...Read More

Welcome back!  We hope you all enjoyed a peaceful winter break.  We began our week reviewing our classroom procedures, including how to carefully use our classroom rugs and walk safely in our environment.  The students seemed very happy to be back in the classroom!  Our first new work of January was drawing snowy scenes with...Read More

This week we began studying the traditions and customs of the Christmas holiday.  We explored the Nativity story, and students could recreate a Nativity scene.  Decorating a Christmas tree was also a new work added to our science and culture shelf. In practical life, we decorated lego Christmas trees.  Our class explored wrapping, addressing, and...Read More

What a busy week in Early Childhood! As we approach the holiday season, we studied the cultural traditions and customs of Hanukkah.  We explored a menorah, the dreidel game, and creating the star of David on the easel. We also began exploring our second cultural study of the holiday season, which included all the beautiful colors...Read More

We introduced an engaging and special Montessori math material this week-the squaring chains.  These materials explore the concept of skip counting, sets and multiplication.  Younger students can explore them sensorially, while others utilize the number tags to label and extend learning. On the practical life shelf, we added lacing cards and putting on gloves and...Read More