This week our new History lesson stems from the Second Great Lesson, The Coming of Life. In this new unit, students can explore the different eras; Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and more. On the shelf, students can examine works about the Timeline of Life and discover various fossils. Students will match these fossils with their...Read More

Thank you for meeting with us last week during conferences. It is so important to us to keep communication open for your children’s needs and education. If you still need to, please be sure to send back work notebooks or Writer’s Workshop folders.  This week we introduced our Fish unit for Zoology studies as we...Read More

A lot has happened in the past two months within our classroom communities. The students have learned so much already, and normalization within the classrooms has begun. This week students were presented with new math and language lessons. On the math unit shelf,  children could start exploring work on expanded notation. Some of the works...Read More

 Practical Life activities are for the children to learn everyday life skills.  In the Lower Elementary rooms, students apply what they learned in the Early Childhood classrooms and take care of their environment with classroom jobs.  The classroom jobs/responsibilities are chosen by each child and change bi-weekly.  Examples of jobs include table washers, trash helpers, sweepers,...Read More

  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...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 with...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...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 this classroom to prepare for...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 the classroom community down. 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...Read More