Fall is here! With the weather change and the attempt to get students outside as much as possible, please check the weather every morning before school. In past years, some families have found it helpful to keep a pair of waterproof boots at school throughout the week.   We will be going outside even in a...Read More

    This week we expanded on our grammar lessons. We gave a whole group lesson on articles. While this was a review for some, it was a new lesson to others. Articles include the words the, a and an. On our grammar shelf, students are able to choose activities that include matching a noun word...Read More

  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