What a special week! As a school, we celebrated the International Day of Peace. Our students painted stones to represent themselves and pledge to accept others and build peace worldwide. The rocks can be found by our peace pole outside our school! The Kindergartners were also introduced to their Peace PAL group, which they will...Read More
We started our handwriting lessons this week! Children receive lessons at our easel and then move to a writing folder. Handwriting focuses on the formation of each letter through tactile movement, large to small, as the hand prepares for pencil and paper. Our pre-writing shelf was open, and the tracing box was demonstrated....Read More
As the year comes to an end, we start to reflect back to the beginning of the year and how much our community has learned and grown. We made friendship pins to honor all the friendships we made this year. We also continued working together to close our classrooms and prepare the room for next year. A truly...Read More
What an exciting and special week in EC! We had our Festival of the Arts this week and our students were so proud to show their families all the wonderful things they do in Music, Art, and P.E! What a wonderful music informance! Our Kindergartners also went on a field trip to Wintergarden Park for...Read More
EC began the week by celebrating the season of Spring! We made “dirt dessert” by whisking pudding, crushing oreo’s and tonging in worms! New science units were also introduced as the East class now learned all about dinosaurs while West explored the wonders of Ocean Life! New sensorial units were also demonstrated including thermic (hot/cold) and pressure...Read More
This week, Early Childhood students refined another food preparation skill, spreading! Students could choose from two choices of jam to spread onto a cracker and enjoy their self-prepared snack. On the art shelf, shamrock straw art and cutting a shamrock were new works, as well as sponge painting using a stencil. In the East class,...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
We celebrated Montessori Education Week with a “Keep Calm and Read On!” theme! Students and staff enjoyed 5 special days of school spirit, dress up days, and celebrations. We love MSBG and appreciate all of our students, families and staff! To kick off Montessori Education Week, EC created peace people to add to our peace corner. Students decorated...Read More
We began our week in EC discussing President’s Day and highlighting some of our famous past Presidents. We read books and had some related coloring pages as well. This week in the East classroom, students matched bells in Sensorial, created beautiful watercolor paintings in art, and polished wood for a new Practical Life work.They also...Read More
Love is in the air as we celebrated Valentine’s Day this week with our classroom community. Students delivered their valentines and we enjoyed a special treat together. We also introduced the next geography unit on “my city.” We talked about how the school is in the city of Bowling Green and what other cities our...Read More
