The Montessori Golden Decimal Bead materials are so beautiful and yet very mysterious at first to the children. The children continuously gravitate towards them every day and want to know more about how these materials work. The children are introduced to the basic lessons and become more and more ...
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Learning Math Skills from Concrete to Abstract
Montessori students use hands-on learning materials that make abstract concepts clear and concrete. They can literally see and explore what is going on. Based on the research of Dr. Maria and Mario Montessori, this approach to teaching mathematics offers a clear and logical strategy for ...
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Our Fall Practical Life Activities
Dr. Montessori wrote, “A child’s work is to create the person he or she will become someday in the future.” As adults, we work to perfect the environments we live in, but the child’s work is to perfect himself. Our young children find something special about tasks that an adult often ...
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Our New Exciting Year
Our students have all now been phased in and are settling quite nicely into their daily routines. It is very much like a little beehive humming along.
I want to thank everyone for joining our first virtual parent night together. It was so nice to see all of you even though it was not in ...
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Welcome to an Exciting Year
I would like to welcome all of you to a new school year especially our new students and their families. I hope all of you get the chance to meet one another during our school events, especially during our up-coming September Social and Back to School Night.
For those parents who do not know me ...
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Hope you have a great Summer
Our eventful school year has gone by so fast and I wanted to thank all of my parents who volunteered this year to make it a great success. The children truly enjoyed your enthusiasm each time you came to visit and share your talent with them. A special thank you goes out to my room mothers Kris ...
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Welcome from Ms. Phelen
Dear Parents,
I would like to welcome all of you to a new and exciting school year. I’m looking forward in working with your children and talking to all of you in our special up-coming school events. The classroom has been especially prepared for your child in each of their developing stages of ...
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Merry Christmas and Have a Happy New Year
Ms. Phelen's class would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe holiday break. We hope all of you have a good time visiting family and friends and have a wonderful New Years. In January we will be adding a new student and would like to welcome Jack Cogswell and his family to our school. ...
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