You Shop, HMS Benefits

For Small Hands When you shop online at For Small Hands, Highland Montessori can benefit. This site has Montessori-inspired children’s products including tools, instruments, crafts and many more gift ideas. When you check out, you will be asked “Do you want to credit a school?” Enter our code: 395140. Since we are new to their system, […]

Birthday Magic

At HMS, we celebrate a child’s day of birth together. The child (here, last week, alongside his older brother) holds onto the Earth, and walks around the sun for each year of his life. His parents show us pictures and tell stories from his first years. After last week’s birthday celebration, our oldest showed us […]

Day of the Dead

For our Day of the Dead celebration, those who brought a picture for Day of the Dead told us about it. We really enjoyed hearing stories about everyone’s loved ones, then we put the pictures into the altar we had made. Some of our students are still working on painting their “sugar” skulls. If they […]

Halloween Fun

Today at HMS, we were visited by Rapunzel, a mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood… …a violin-playing witch…   …Willie Nelson… …and a firefighter! We were also visited by several animals, including a penguin, a zebra, a tiger and a leopard. Rumor has it that there were dragons and vampires and ghosts! But we all happily got back […]