We began our week with a special art and peace project-adding a family picture to the peace corner family book! Students enjoy adding words and pictures around their family so they can enjoy it the rest of the year. We also began our Handwriting Curriculum this week for our kindergartens and younger friends ready for...Read More
The Toddler classroom is always busy, but this week we took our skills and made applesauce. Toddler practiced slicing, stirring and enjoying the applesauce they made.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
We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend! We continued our fine motor skills this week in Practical Life through our tonging and fine motor baskets. Fine motor baskets include items for the students to manipulate skills such as zipping, snapping, opening/closing, and twisting. Our first dressing frame was added to the classroom to help...Read More
We began our week with new practical life work – opening and closing and tonging one-to-one. We utilized our fine motor skills to transfer along with learning the skills of open, twist, and zip. On the art shelf, we created collages using our torn paper from our work last week. The sensorial curriculum added our...Read More
Happy September Everyone! Our adolescents are fully into the swing of the school year. We are hip-deep in the Reconstruction of the United States after the Civil War. This week’s conversation will be about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Black Codes, military rule in the South, and how the Electoral College works. It’s...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 have begun our small group handwriting lessons. The handwriting lessons give the students a more focused opportunity to practice correct formation of letters and numbers. Being able to identify and write upper...Read More
It has been a fun week in Upper! The quail have returned, and the students have been doing a wonderful job caring for them. Apologies if your child came home covered in bedding! We have also had four volunteer readers head to the toddler room every week to read to students on Mondays and Wednesdays....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
Welcome to the new school year! The students have been learning many foundational lessons and routines of the classroom. This can include how to use a rug and how to carry and return a work to the shelf. As our shelves slowly open, works are being introduced including practical life pouring, grasping, and spooning works....Read More
