Classroom News
February 19, 2026
Hello Families,
Here’s the weekly update from the MSBG Adolescent Classroom! Below you’ll find important upcoming dates, followed by highlights from our work together this week.
Mark Your Calendars
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February 23-27 – Montessori Ed Week
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February 23 – Band Lobby Concert at 3:00 pm
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February 28 – PTO Mario Kart Tournament
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March 5 – Transition Meetings (doesn’t really apply to Adolescent level)
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March 18 – Dance for 3rd-9th Grade!
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March 19-20 – Professional Development, No School
In The Classroom
History
We have been focusing on the transition from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Art, Philosophy, and Invention are the talk of the town. This coming week, we will have a discussion on the importance of the “old ways” of chivalry, knights’ codes, and feudalistic governments…maybe with a side of swordplay.
Geography (and Writing)
Next week, we are starting a research project that will involve the physical, political, cultural, and economic geographies of countries around the world. The students will have important writing work, presentation work (just to the classroom this time, sorry), and argument work to do during this project. It will be fun!
Science
In Anatomy and Physiology, we have covered the Skeletal and Muscular systems and have begun our unit on the Digestive system. Nutrition and the function of food are the primary bits that we have started with, moving into the body parts and organs that carry out this work next week.
Literature
With our Independent Novel Study behind us, we are working our way into a (potentially optional) unit on Lewis Carroll, to discuss the poetic and absurd fantastical world he envisioned. This will coincide with…
Writing
…our own version of National Novel Writing Month! Students will (optionally) attempt to write a novel in ONE MONTH. Beginning March 1st and concluding on March 31st, each student will try to reach a total word count that we will decide on together. The end result will be an unedited, unrestricted, idea-drenched, very-difficult-to-read novel of the student’s own devising.
Spring Excursion
Now that all the fundraising is over, we can turn our attention to choosing places to eat, and we can start learning how mass transit works in the big city. This is the fun part of planning this trip, giving the students as much input as possible.
Stay tuned for next week’s update, titled: “Michelangelo’s Ceiling Feeling,” or “The Ladder of Peril.”
By ure troth,
Jeremy & Kayla