As school continues our students continue to express their passion for learning! This week both lower classrooms have introduced new unites for Geometry, Botany, History and Word Study. We have started to study the different types of roots on our Botany shelf. Vegetables like beets, celery, carrots and green onions were brought in for...Read More

  Thank you for supporting your child’s Montessori education through a challenging and unpredictable year. We remained a community throughout it all and we couldn’t have done it without you. We finished the year with some exciting days filled with fun activities, presentations and lots of laughter. As a community we cleaned and closed the classroom to...Read More

As the school year comes to a close the classroom begins to wind down. Children still are busy at work throughout the school day, but lessons are presented less and less. This week the students even started closing down the classroom community. Children worked hard scrubbing and cleaning the chairs along with the tables throughout...Read More

Although our time this year is limited, we are keeping busy with new lessons and completing tasks.  This week our new lessons included the introduction of contractions for word study and  story problems for math work.  Often times our students use contractions in their writing and learning the placement of the apostrophe and correct spelling is...Read More

We hope all our mother’s out there had a nice Mother’s Day this past weekend.  Many of our students shared that they either purchased flowers for their moms or visited a nursery with flowers. We’ve transitioned from teeth in Science to focusing on Botany.  This time of year is a perfect time for the students...Read More

Another full and busy week. The smell of spring is in the air. To compliment the season, we are studying bees for our zoology unit. We are learning about the pollination process, the life and importance of bees. Our 2nd year students are continuing their state research for their final presentation of an Eastern/Southern state. While...Read More

With the season of spring finally arriving, the lower elementary teachers took an opportunity to introduce the next unit for zoology. This work contains creatures classified as invertebrates. These creatures being, insects! Students will explore a multitude of insects from the creepy crawlers, ones with six legs to many legs, the buzzing bugs to the...Read More

It has been a great week, both outdoors and indoors.  We were excited to feel some warmer breezes as the week progressed.  Indoors, we were pleased with the work the children were doing and accomplishing. This week we introduced a couple new units.  For Geography, the Lower North classroom has begun their study of North...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...Read More