Highland Montessori School

This custom-made shelf includes pencils, paper, trays and the pink frames and the blue insets.

The beauty of the metal insets

- May 27, 2016 | June 2, 2016 - rickweller 1 Comment

[caption id="attachment_2482" align="alignright" width="225"] Our custom-made shelf includes pencils, paper, trays and the pink frames and the blue insets.[/caption] In a Montessori classroom, many materials on the shelves come and go, but one of the staple…

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Mud Play

- May 19, 2016 | June 22, 2016 - rickweller comment

Our classroom is warm and dry, and busy as always. But we still love to go outside! On this spring's un-sunny days, we like to have fun in the mud... mudplay from Highland Montessori…

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Looking to the stars

- May 12, 2016 | May 12, 2016 - rickweller 1 Comment

A popular topic among many of the older students last week was the planets, so true to Montessori our teachers followed that interest and we got out some of our spacey books and materials, and the…

Instruments resting waiting for the songs to begin...

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Mothers’ Day Concert

- May 6, 2016 | May 6, 2016 - rickweller

To celebrate Mothers' Day, our young students put on a special music class for all of our Parents. Mrs Laura did an excellent job preparing the little musicians--in addition to showing off multiple rhythms and…

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Get out in Nature

- April 26, 2016 | April 26, 2016 - rickweller

Maria Montessori once lamented on "How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature?" In this spirit, some of our families…

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Rotating our shelves

- April 19, 2016 | April 21, 2016 - rickweller

Montessori schools have big closets. Well, ours is a shed, but the point is that we have more available for children in storage than is actually out on the shelf. Of course, there are some always-available…

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Building, building, building

- March 29, 2016 | March 29, 2016 - rickweller comment

Children love to construct, and to de-construct. This is part of the imaginary play in which every child engages. In a Montessori classroom, the building materials are specially-designed to promote future success in math and reading.…

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Playground Sanctuary

- March 24, 2016 - rickweller comment

Maria Montessori tells us to "Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them." So when our teachers recognize that some of our young scholars need some down-time,…

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Signs of Spring

- March 22, 2016 - rickweller 1 Comment

Our little scholars have returned from Spring Break and went right back to work. Our teachers couldn't help but notice that the children themselves must be feeling the Spring Fever, as their choices of works…

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New Garden

- February 22, 2016 | February 25, 2016 - rickweller comment

With the awesome help of two of our parents, we now have a lovely new garden in the playground, surrounding our spritely young oak tree. In the spirit of the idea that you will take…

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Butterfly Release

- February 16, 2016 | February 16, 2016 - rickweller comment

This morning, we let the butterflies go! Once we brought the aquarium outside, all five of them spread their wings and put on a show which the children enjoyed watching. After letting them acclimate to…

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Flowers for Valentines

- February 14, 2016 | February 14, 2016 - rickweller comment

Many thanks to one of our fantastic moms for helping our budding artists make celery-print Valentines last week!