by MOM | Sep 21, 2023 | Montessori Preschool
With the new school year starting and our newest and youngest students joining our school, we are establishing the ground rules and routines and we are focusing on grace and courtesy lessons, which are the foundations of a “normalized” classroom. In the “normalized”...
by MOM | Jul 31, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, Summer School
This summer’s theme was “Cooking Up a Story”. Each day, we read a book that was related to a dish or a recipe, and then we spent the morning chopping, stirring, cooking, frying, dicing, and tasting, until we recreated the delicious dish described in the book just in...
by MOM | Jul 21, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, The Outdoor Classroom
Our assistant teacher, Jamie, introduced vermicomposting at our school! We learned that vermicomposting is a method of using red worms to turn food waste into fertilizer. We learned about the life cycle of the worm and what it takes to make a good home for the worms....
by MOM | May 26, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, The Outdoor Classroom
Spring inspires so many aspects of learning – the obvious changes around us cannot go unnoticed, which very conveniently lend themselves into lessons and discussions on a great variety of topics. One of the things we do is talk about the life cycle of a seed and plant...
by MOM | May 10, 2023 | Community, Montessori Preschool, Special Events
Our annual May Day Flower Delivery Walk was started by one of our beloved founders, Gena Lawrence. Gena wanted to share with the MOM children her childhood tradition of delivering flowers down her street as an act of kindness every year on May 1st. On this day, we ask...
by MOM | Apr 17, 2023 | Montessori Preschool, Reading
Watching a child’s face light up when they blend their sounds together for the first time and they realize they just read a word is priceless. At M.O.M. we use the phonetic approach to teaching reading and writing. Before the child actually blends their sounds...
