Spring Camping Trip
This year, we had not one, but two wonderful camping trips! Last weekend, HMS invaded Palmetto State Park and found lots of excitement. We found lots of animals: spiders, butterflies, birds, frogs and caterpillars, all…
Montessori Practical Life
[caption id="attachment_2990" align="alignright" width="225"] This 2-year old was sorting beans when he spilled them. Cleaning them up was its own lesson and Practical Life skill which he has since mastered![/caption] We all know that toddlers…
We ❤️ Valentine’s Day
See some of the love that's been going around the last couple of weeks... [caption id="attachment_2964" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Counting the Hearts[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2965" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Getting Ready for our Parents' Sing-a-long[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2966" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Singing…
What is in Antarctica? Penguins, penguins, penguins!
As a part of our Geography studies, we rotate themed works based on continents into all of our academic areas. In the fall, we studied Europe, and in the spring we will learn about South…
The Holidays in our Classroom
We love to represent holidays in our classroom. December is perhaps the most obvious example of this, so we thought this would be a good time to explain how these works fit into our Montessori curriculum.…
Cardboard Art
Our decidated art teacher, Dorte, has just finished a lovely sculpturing project with the students. In her words, here is how these works of art came to be: After opening some boxes of furniture, I was…
Fluttery visitor
We love our playground so much! We run, and jump and play, and yesterday we had a colorful, fluttery visitor alight. The kids were entranced, and yet were so patient passing it back and forth…
The caterpillars are here
UPDATE: On Thursday morning (9/7) we found that our first butterfly had emerged, and by the afternoon we had three more! Three more arrived by Friday morning and on Friday afternoon we released them on the…
Happy Birthday, Dr Montessori!
First a physician and later a psychologist, social worker and pedagogue before these professions existed, or certainly before women were "allowed" to hold these jobs, Dr Maria Montessori was a brilliant mind working far before her time.…
Eclipse Day at HMS
This morning we simulated the eclipse in our classroom, then after lunch the older students viewed it with a pinhole camera and a hole-punch camera. Just a little warm-up until we have a total eclipse here…
Back to School
We are so happy to be back at work after our short summer break. So great to see old friends and make new ones! As shown by the pictures below, we are beginning this year learning…
The Year of the Spider
"Sarah! There is a spider in the library!" So goes a not uncommon announcement heard around our classroom this year. Such announcement is not uttered out of fear but out of excitement and a sense of discovery. Our young students have…