Highland Montessori School

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

- April 21, 2017 | April 21, 2017 - rickweller comment

"To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge." --Maria Montessori, From Childhood to Adolescence Children ask questions! As teachers, we seek to enable them to answer…

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We Love our Parents

- April 11, 2017 - rickweller comment

On weekdays our students come to school to work. On Saturday, their parents came to work--and great things happened: a bigger garden, a new playhouse, an outdoor water filter, cleaned and sealed decks, and new…

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Parents’ Art Workshop

- April 6, 2017 | April 6, 2017 - rickweller comment

Last weekend many of our parents attended a fun-filled workshop led by our wonderful art teacher, Dorte. Parents learned first-hand what it's like to be in the Art section of our school. But, don't take…

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Orderly movement in the Montessori Classroom

- February 23, 2017 | March 22, 2023 - rickweller 1 Comment

"Movement has great importance in mental development, provided that the action which occurs is connected with the mental activity going on.” --Maria Montessori, in The Absorbent Mind (1947) Children move. This is how they learn…

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Rock-Star Grandpa

- February 17, 2017 | June 12, 2024 - rickweller

One of our awesome grandparents returned for an encore performance of last year's geology lessons. This time he brought all-new rocks, except for one special request by the students. The meteorite made a return visit--we…

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Sweet Smells

- February 9, 2017 | February 17, 2017 - rickweller comment

Our classroom smells wonderful today, after a morning of assembling a home-and-body mister and bath salts. Many thanks to one of our moms for volunteering her time to help the children assemble misters and bath…

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Valentine’s Excitement

- February 9, 2017 | February 9, 2017 - rickweller comment

It's true, holidays are exciting times. Valentine's Day is not until next week, but we have already been seeing it for the past few weeks. The children are choosing to wear red and pink, and we've…

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We LOVE our playground

- January 18, 2017 | January 18, 2017 - rickweller comment

[caption id="attachment_2700" align="alignright" width="300"] Our playground is a place for imaginative play, whether alone or with friends.[/caption] Much of the time our students spend at school is focused on developing their sense of order in…

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Holiday materials come to our shelves

- December 7, 2016 | December 16, 2016 - rickweller comment

[caption id="attachment_2686" align="alignright" width="228"] Perforating a shape in an exercise of fine motor skills, and patience.[/caption] A Montessori classroom is ever-changing. Of course, the pink tower, counting beads, red rods and many more materials are…

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Thankful for our Multi-age Classroom

- December 1, 2016 | December 1, 2016 - rickweller

As we finish up our fall semester, we reflect on where we've come since August. This fall, like past years, we have enjoyed a new cohort of two-year-olds. It is lovely to watch them learn how…

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A time for gratitude

- November 17, 2016 | December 1, 2016 - rickweller

As we approach Thanksgiving, our students are sharing their gratitude in many ways. Last week, we started a book of gratitude, in which the students can write (or a teacher may write for them) something…

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Circle of Life

- November 2, 2016 | November 2, 2016 - rickweller

Our students have had several examples of the circle of life recently. Death can be a topic that adults hesitate to discuss with children, but in truth it is all around us. In October, we…