We continue to move forward with new lessons and continue to build our classroom community. Montessori education focuses on the whole child, so while we have academic lessons, we also work just as diligently on peer interactions and conflict resolution. The Wood County Parks visited us on Tuesday in coordination with our Botany Unit. We...Read More
The fifth week of school has quickly arrived! Each day the children become more acclimated to the classroom environment. As time goes by, students continue to express their passion for learning! This week both lower classrooms have introduced new units within the math and language curriculum. In regards to math, the students were presented with...Read More
Last week, we mentioned that we completed telling the stories of the Five Great Lessons. The Fifth Great Lesson: How Numbers Began has prompted us to start a new unit in History. This new unit is based on Roman Numerals and Egyptian Numeration. The Romans used seven capital letters of the alphabet to stand for...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...Read More
Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year. This week has been BUSY! We are very excited and charged to get this year rolling. The students came back ready to be in Lower Elementary! The first few weeks are packed with classroom routines and procedures, as well as assessments and review lessons. We have begun: The First...Read More
We are getting closer to the end of the 2023 school year. While the students continue to choose academic work as usual in the classroom, many are finishing their projects. For example, the 2nd year students presented their State research reports, and the 3rd year presented their Imaginary Island projects. All are working on...Read More
The end of the school year is quickly approaching! With only a couple of weeks left, teachers are presenting lessons less, and students are working more on finalizing projects along with reviewing works in language, math, and culture. The second-year students are wrapping up their State Research projects, and the third-year students are busy working...Read More
Our classroom has been busy this week! First, our third-year students visited the BG Community Center for the Bike Safety Program and saw some neat performances. We also got to celebrate the Festival of the Arts by watching our friends perform and then perform ourselves on Wednesday. In Math, we started learning about story problems...Read More
Students continue to learn about Famous Americans in History, contractions in Word Study, and graphing for our Math Unit. Our new unit this week was in Zoology. We have concluded our study on fish and are now learning about mammals. It is the last classification of vertebrates that we have in our course of study. We...Read More
This week we studied contractions for Word Study. The students are learning how to write words as contractions and go from a contraction to two separate words. We continue to explore Simple Machines for Science and the Western States for Geography. Next week, the 2nd year students will have a separate lesson on the Western...Read More
