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Some old friends came to visit us on Friday to teach us about Chinese New Year. We welcomed in the new year with a lion dance and eating oranges. In a couple of years we are looking forward to all of the calm, creative, thoughtful and perservering children who are born this year, the Year of the […]
At HMS, we are celebrating love by sharing these student-made Valentines. Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!
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This morning, the HMS playground was full of activity and strange creatures. There were ghosts, a Wild Thing, Transformers, Cinderella a witch, some superheroes, a Mutant Turtle and several species of animals! This video shows most of them. HMS Halloween 2014 from Highland Montessori School on Vimeo. And here is a snippet from the Costume Parade. Enjoy, […]
We have begun preparing our Day of the Dead Altar.
Earlier this morning, we paused to celebrate Passover at school. We are grateful to Matt Berg for coming to tell the story of Passover, share some matzo with the students and hide the afikomen. Yes, we even had gluten-free matzo! Breaking and tasting the matzo… The afikomen has been spotted!
This morning we celebrated the New Year with a Lion Dance, dragons, lanterns and a snack of oranges and dumplings. All of this will to bring us good fortune in this new year, the Year of the Horse.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]