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

This week in Early Childhood, we introduced our geography curriculum. The sandpaper globe was introduced as well as our colored continent globe. Our first puzzle map was also presented, and we demonstrated the continents and their names. For our sensory unit, students had the opportunity to explore the Red Length Rods to help teach them...Read More

Hello families and parents! We have been busy this week in the Upper west! This week our students continued to master their math division facts. They worked together across grade levels for these skills cooperating with each other. Our sixth-year students are studying human biology and learning to identify different body parts. In class, we...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

This week in Upper Elementary, students studied the Universe and are working on 3-D examples of everything from the Earth’s place in the Solar System to types of particles. In history, we examined the Incas and Mayans. Next week, we have a guest speaker from the Wood County Museum to share Native American of Ohio...Read More

  This week the EC East classroom worked on their Peace Curriculum by creating family picture books, painting unique and personal stick pieces, and sand affirmations. Sand affirmations involve our children reading and affirming something kind about themselves as they scoop and transfer colored sand. We use one color of sand each month and then...Read More

Exploring nature and learning to care for our environment is a critical component of our Montessori Curriculum.  We spent the week exploring and caring for the environment. The class learned to take care of the birds by filling up the bird feeders outside. They learned how to use the scoop to put the seed into...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

    We started our handwriting lessons this week! Children receive lessons at our easel and then move to a writing folder. Handwriting focuses on the formation of each letter through tactile movement, large to small, as the hand prepares for pencil and paper. Our pre-writing shelf was open, and the tracing box was demonstrated....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