Lower Elementary Families, This week has been a big push on wrapping up many exciting projects! Third year has been hard at work on their Imaginary Islands, using their amazing creativity to construct an incredible island. Second year is deep in their investigative research on their chosen state and is starting to assemble their posters and reports....Read More

The month of April has quickly come to an end and May is in full swing! The lower elementary teachers and students have been hard at work in preparation for this final month of the school year. New to our word study shelf is the abbreviations unit. Though this unit may sometimes be a challenging...Read More

This week we are studying Europe for Geography. In addition to the classroom work, the students will be able to enjoy an apple streusel made by their peers to enhance the European experience. We have changed our math unit to story problems. Here the students will read a problem presented with pictures and/or words and use...Read More

We would like to thank all our grandparents and special adults for coming in and visiting this past week! Our students were excited to give them a tour of the school and classroom, meet their peers, and most importantly show them work they are doing in the classroom. In Zoology we concluded our study on birds and...Read More

Welcome back! We hope you had a peaceful break and we loved hearing about the fun activities that you did! We are in the final push of the school year but still keeping quite busy. We have introduced several new units this week, starting with our Seeds and Flowers Unit just in time for Spring. We are...Read More

This week students were presented with a new history unit in both of the classrooms. In Lower North, students were given a lesson on Famous Americans. While this history unit is out students will have the opportunity to learn about different Americans who have changed the world throughout the years. Some of these Famous Americans...Read More

This week Lower North is reviewing Days of the Week while Lower South is studying Months of the Year. We added some extension work to our Simple Machine Unit with the help of Rube Goldberg. The students were offered a variety of materials to create an obstacle course using several simple machines. They first drew...Read More

It’s been a busy week! The students were given many new unit lessons. Our newest Math unit is graphing. Younger students were given lessons on graphs, including the pictograph, bar graph, and the circle graph. Older students were shown how to plot a coordinate. Activities on the shelf will allow them to explore this concept further. We have...Read More

We hope you enjoyed Montessori Education Week last week! This week has been a return to our typical schedule, with new units being introduced and continual progression through all curricular areas. We have introduced our unit on Simple Machines onto our Science shelf, leading to many hands-on experiments throughout the classroom. The children are learning about...Read More

Happy Montessori Education Week! This week was filled with school spirit and all about showing appreciation for the wonderful people within the MSBG community from the staff, families, and to the students.This special week kicked off by having a school wide assembly to show how amazing MSBG truly is along with each classroom creating something...Read More