I hope everyone is soaking up the sunshine! Students have been enjoying working outside this week. Our tadpoles have started growing their back legs. It’s really exciting to watch metamorphosis firsthand. This week, we learned about frogs’ skin permeability and its connection to ecosystem health. In biology, students learned about the digestive system and created their...Read More

It’s hard to believe next week is spring break! Students will be off school from April 1-8 (Monday- Monday). Monday, April 8th, is the solar eclipse! Students received a lesson, books, and eclipse glasses this week to prepare for the phenomenon. This week, we pretended to be Paleoartists and reconstructed early hominids from skull pictures....Read More

So many activities have happened in Upper since we last touched base! We had our Literature Circle sleepover; we had Pi Day (two students memorized over 100 digits of Pi!!!); we made leprechaun traps for St. Patrick’s Day and had a Leprechaun visit over the weekend; we had move-up day for 6th and 3rd years, and we had...Read More

Students had a wonderful time at the sleepover this week! Thank you so much for your donations. We will be celebrating Pi Day next week on March 14th! It is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π  (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are...Read More

Students enjoyed working outside yesterday while wearing their funky Montessori Ed Week outfits! They have also enjoyed our new Science unit on circuits! Students have made interesting lie detectors, noise makers, and recording devices. Your children have also been working diligently on their informational writing. We have children working on everything from teen activists to...Read More

  Thank you so much for attending conferences last week. Your children were proud of their work; watching them share it with you was a joy. If you haven’t seen it yet, your child’s progress report is now available online through My BackPack. Log in to My BackPack, find the heading “My Forms/Documents,” and click...Read More

This week, students made electroscopes in Science and Oldowan Industrial Complexes (core choppers) in conjunction with their study of Homo Habilis. We also lost our ability to be bipedal for 20 minutes on Tuesday afternoon. We have a new appreciation for walking upright! Students also studied absolute zero, least common multiples, and mixed to improper fractions...Read More

This week, 6th years started planning their 6th-year annual end-of-year trip. This year, students decided they wanted to sell books from 3:00- 3:15 pm in the atrium after school for $4 a book. They plan to start next week and continue daily for as long as possible. They want to raise enough money to go...Read More

This week has been busy with history timelines, informational writing, reading, fractions, binomials, least common multiples, and geometry. 6th year students are getting excited about their ideas for their end-of-year trip! They will send out information about their ideas soon! Next week, we will do Easy CBM testing on Monday and Wednesday. Please make sure your child...Read More

  This week, we wrapped up homework project presentations, and they were terrific! So much hard work went into these passion projects. Thank you for all of your help in making our projects a success. Below are pictures and a list of what everyone worked on. Students can begin thinking about their next Homework Projects...Read More