With class in session for a month now, many new units were introduced to the students throughout this week! Each day, the children become more and more acclimated to the classroom environment and continually show a passion for learning. The students were introduced to the following new units: geography, botany, and word study. In geography,...Read More

Our classrooms have been showing some normalization and everyone has been getting to the routine of things.  We are pleased to see our students working peacefully. This week we have added to our Zoology shelf.  We have introduced nomenclature (matching cards) of several invertebrates that the students heard about during the 2nd Great Lesson.  The nomenclature...Read More

We are hoping everyone had an eventful, but relaxing Labor Day Weekend.  The extra day was well deserved after our two full weeks.  The students (and teachers) worked hard. We closed out our Great Lesson stories with The Fifth Great Lesson:  How Numbers Began. The students have really enjoyed these stories. They are meant to spark an interest in what was...Read More

Welcome to the 2024-2025 school year. We are off to a positive start and the adventure is just beginning. The foundational lessons of the Montessori curriculum for Lower Elementary are called “The Great Lessons”: The Coming of Life on Earth, The Study of Early Humans, The History of Writing, and The History of Mathematics. These lessons...Read More

It is hard to think the 23/24 school year has already come to an end. This time of year is always bitter sweet. We are able to make final memories through these last days of school, however, we also say goodbye to our 3rd year students as they will be moving on to their next...Read More

This week we are truly winding down from the school year and working on closing our classroom community.  The children are working on scrubbing and cleaning the classroom chairs and tables.  They are also scrubbing slipper boxes, book bins, and some shelves.  As the week goes by they will be bringing home items that they will...Read More

As we come closer to the end of the school year, excitement and anticipation begins to take over.  However, there is still work to be done in the classroom.  We presented two new culture units this week. Our new continent study in Geography is Asia.  Using the Montessori Puzzle maps, students can locate and draw different regions of...Read More

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. For our Science Unit, we will be discussing recycling and some ways...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. This week students have continued learning about the midwestern/central states in the U.S.A. On the Geography shelf, first...Read More

With the teasing of spring weather, the lower teachers have made the transition from science work to implementing botany work into the classroom environment. In previous weeks the children have been exploring different works pertaining to the flowers unit on the botany shelf. To continue with the botany curriculum, children were introduced to a second...Read More