Highland Montessori School

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 1 Comment

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 1 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…

today our crowd included superheroes, unicorns, pokemon and Star Wars Heroines

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Halloween Sing-a-long and Parade

- October 28, 2016 | October 28, 2016 - rickweller comment

Many thanks to all of our parents, students and the weather for a wonderful morning! [caption id="attachment_2632" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fun singing spooky versions of our favorite songs. Here, we found "a little pumpkin, under a…

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Pumpkin Carving

- October 26, 2016 | October 26, 2016 - rickweller

Many thanks to one of our moms who came to school this morning to help our students work with pumpkins out on the playground. Everyone had the chance to draw or stamp on a pumpkin,…

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Our pet butterfly, Foldy

- October 19, 2016 | October 19, 2016 - rickweller

A couple of weeks ago, we received 10 caterpillars for our classroom. In a little over a week, they had each made their chrysalis, only this year the butterflies emerged much more quickly than they…