Connection and Community….
What a scorcher! The recent record-breaking heat and humidity levels have put a wet blanket on late afternoon outdoor time over the past couple of weeks. Students have been making the most of the situation by going outside during the cooler mornings and enjoying later afternoon activities in the classrooms. Some primary and older students enjoy the extra time to dedicate to a favorite classroom work while others choose to participate in a bit of recreational bingo, dance parties, interpretive ribbon dancing, and more. The littlest ones also enjoy inventive ways to stay cool. The preprimary classroom takes advantage of the shade and water mister on their deck to enjoy the outdoor classroom area for a few moments. The infants are enjoying a social “4 o’clock ice pop” (aka frozen teething rings). The toddlers enjoy being watered like flowers outside- lots of big smiles, gleeful squeals, and requests for a second or third round of watering!
Events Calendar
Even though COVID may not continue to create major disruptions to our school calendar events and dates, please know that all dates are tentative.
Montessori Moments Events Calendar
July 2023: Summer of Myths and Legends!
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Primary C
24 Daily Soup Summer Session Begins*: Primary & Older
August 2023: Optional Parent/Teacher Conferences
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Lower Elementary
11 Last Day of Summer Soccer Session
17 Last Day of Summer Swim Sessions
21 Solar Oven Camp: Elementary & Middle School: Watch for Info
25 Last Day of Summer Session 2023
28-31 Closed to Families: Staff Professional Development & Work Week!
September 2023: School Year 2023-2024 Begins! Go, Buzz Bees, Go!
Parent & Teacher Conferences: Infant/Toddler and Preprimary
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Upper Elementary
1-4 Closed to Families: Staff Professional Development & Work Week & Holiday
8 Upper El & Middle School PIN Event: What for Info
11 Infant & Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences Sign Up Is Open
11 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences Sign Up Is Open
15 Lower El & PIN Event : Watch for Info
18-22 Infant and Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences
21-22 International Day of Peace: Teachers and Students Observe
22 Primary PIN Event (What for Info)
25-29 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences
What’s Happening?
Infant & Toddler
A group of children sits on the rug in the classroom listening to Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney. One child has clearly read this book once or twice before (or possibly several dozen times) because they say the words aloud in time with the guide. As Llama Llama says goodnight to their mother, they get a kiss on their hair. A toddler leans over to a friend sitting right next to them and gives them a gentle kiss on the top of their head, then turns their attention back to the book. Towards the end, just as Baby Llama is about to two kisses from their Mama to help them settle into sleep in the book, a toddler leans forward and gives two small kisses to the guides’ knee.
Primary B
Four children sit at tables, each working quietly on different maps. A couple of them are carefully tracing while another one is coloring “Africa” green. The fourth friend is heard sounding and writing out “Greenland”. Later, a few children prepare daily soup. They chop up cucumbers grown in one of our student’s garden! “Pepino,” they repeat. Who knew learning Spanish could taste so good!
Pre-Primary
The first student enters the classroom and exclaims,“Where are friends?” A teacher responds, “They’ll be here soon. You’re the first friend today”. Smiling in response, the student places their bag on their hook and heads to the toilet. Another child enters the room and the first student greets them by name. The first student says to their teacher, “There are two friends now!” The student looks at the people in the classroom and says, “There are two friends and two teachers!” The student says hello to each friend when they enter the classroom. The question remains the same, “How many friends?” The students walk around the classroom counting friends with smiles on their faces.
Primary A
An older student is folding towels. They take out a few small towels from the laundry basket and start folding them in half, carefully rolling them, and placing them in the two little baskets next to the cleaning supplies. Another friend is observing how they fold and roll. The student asks if they want to help. One younger friend wants to help too. The three children start their work, one is folding and rolling and the other two are helping with putting the towels away. The oldest kid starts counting how many towels they have rolled and they exclaim: There are more than 30 towels in our classroom!
Elementary & Middle School
Students adventure to the Science Museum! They explore an exhibit on the human experience in space travel. Meanwhile, a student on campus discovers a material used to study light. They ask for a lesson on light and mirrors. While reading about light traveling slower in water than air, the student explores with available materials. They place a penny in a bowl and move back from the bowl until they cannot see the penny. As water is poured into the bowl, the reflection of the penny appears! They practice and share the demonstration with their kindergarten friends!
Primary C
A child has the sandpaper numerals 0-9 on a rug. They are collecting items from around the classroom to match to each numeral. There are two dust pans, nine pieces of paper, 8 triangles…The child has brought 10 triangles instead of 8 and a friend has seen this and tells him. They quickly do a bit of beginning mental math and decide they need to take 3 away. Another friend decides this isn’t right either. They carefully count out the sheets of paper and decide they just need to take 2 away. After 55 items have been matched to their numerals, there is a quiet moment of contemplation and then the children quickly restore all of the materials!
Central’s Little Free Library and Pantry
Thanks for helping us give back to our neighbors. A neighbor who depends on this pantry for food has posted a request on the pantry asking that donations include food containers that someone without a home, kitchen, or can opener can manage. We ask that donations contain only foods within the expiration date. All foods should be as healthy as possible. We can do this!
Month of Giving
Books for Little Free Library & Food for Little Free Pantry
Please feel free to send your donations in with your child. Individual classrooms will collect these items and the front office will manage them. Older students will help us keep our pantries stocked with your generous gifts. Your child (and our neighborhood community) benefits from your modeling of giving to others. It inspires them and helps them see how they themselves can help others. This is a very big deal.
Month
Classroom
January
Upper Elementary
February
Middle School
March
Infant and Toddler
April
Preprimary
May
Primary A
June
Primary B
July
Primary C
August
Lower Elementary
September
Upper Elementary
October
Middle School
November
Infant and Toddler
December
Lower Elementary
What a scorcher! The recent record-breaking heat and humidity levels have put a wet blanket on late afternoon outdoor time over the past couple of weeks. Students have been making the most of the situation by going outside during the cooler mornings and enjoying later afternoon activities in the classrooms. Some primary and older students enjoy the extra time to dedicate to a favorite classroom work while others choose to participate in a bit of recreational bingo, dance parties, interpretive ribbon dancing, and more. The littlest ones also enjoy inventive ways to stay cool. The preprimary classroom takes advantage of the shade and water mister on their deck to enjoy the outdoor classroom area for a few moments. The infants are enjoying a social “4 o’clock ice pop” (aka frozen teething rings). The toddlers enjoy being watered like flowers outside- lots of big smiles, gleeful squeals, and requests for a second or third round of watering!
Events Calendar
Even though COVID may not continue to create major disruptions to our school calendar events and dates, please know that all dates are tentative.
Montessori Moments Events Calendar
July 2023: Summer of Myths and Legends!
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Primary C
24 Daily Soup Summer Session Begins*: Primary & Older
August 2023: Optional Parent/Teacher Conferences
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Lower Elementary
11 Last Day of Summer Soccer Session
17 Last Day of Summer Swim Sessions
21 Solar Oven Camp: Elementary & Middle School: Watch for Info
25 Last Day of Summer Session 2023
28-31 Closed to Families: Staff Professional Development & Work Week!
September 2023: School Year 2023-2024 Begins! Go, Buzz Bees, Go!
Parent & Teacher Conferences: Infant/Toddler and Preprimary
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Upper Elementary
1-4 Closed to Families: Staff Professional Development & Work Week & Holiday
8 Upper El & Middle School PIN Event: What for Info
11 Infant & Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences Sign Up Is Open
11 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences Sign Up Is Open
15 Lower El & PIN Event : Watch for Info
18-22 Infant and Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences
21-22 International Day of Peace: Teachers and Students Observe
22 Primary PIN Event (What for Info)
25-29 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences
What’s Happening?
Infant & Toddler
A group of children sits on the rug in the classroom listening to Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney. One child has clearly read this book once or twice before (or possibly several dozen times) because they say the words aloud in time with the guide. As Llama Llama says goodnight to their mother, they get a kiss on their hair. A toddler leans over to a friend sitting right next to them and gives them a gentle kiss on the top of their head, then turns their attention back to the book. Towards the end, just as Baby Llama is about to two kisses from their Mama to help them settle into sleep in the book, a toddler leans forward and gives two small kisses to the guides’ knee.
Primary B
Four children sit at tables, each working quietly on different maps. A couple of them are carefully tracing while another one is coloring “Africa” green. The fourth friend is heard sounding and writing out “Greenland”. Later, a few children prepare daily soup. They chop up cucumbers grown in one of our student’s garden! “Pepino,” they repeat. Who knew learning Spanish could taste so good!
Pre-Primary
The first student enters the classroom and exclaims,“Where are friends?” A teacher responds, “They’ll be here soon. You’re the first friend today”. Smiling in response, the student places their bag on their hook and heads to the toilet. Another child enters the room and the first student greets them by name. The first student says to their teacher, “There are two friends now!” The student looks at the people in the classroom and says, “There are two friends and two teachers!” The student says hello to each friend when they enter the classroom. The question remains the same, “How many friends?” The students walk around the classroom counting friends with smiles on their faces.
Primary A
An older student is folding towels. They take out a few small towels from the laundry basket and start folding them in half, carefully rolling them, and placing them in the two little baskets next to the cleaning supplies. Another friend is observing how they fold and roll. The student asks if they want to help. One younger friend wants to help too. The three children start their work, one is folding and rolling and the other two are helping with putting the towels away. The oldest kid starts counting how many towels they have rolled and they exclaim: There are more than 30 towels in our classroom!
Elementary & Middle School
Students adventure to the Science Museum! They explore an exhibit on the human experience in space travel. Meanwhile, a student on campus discovers a material used to study light. They ask for a lesson on light and mirrors. While reading about light traveling slower in water than air, the student explores with available materials. They place a penny in a bowl and move back from the bowl until they cannot see the penny. As water is poured into the bowl, the reflection of the penny appears! They practice and share the demonstration with their kindergarten friends!
Primary C
A child has the sandpaper numerals 0-9 on a rug. They are collecting items from around the classroom to match to each numeral. There are two dust pans, nine pieces of paper, 8 triangles…The child has brought 10 triangles instead of 8 and a friend has seen this and tells him. They quickly do a bit of beginning mental math and decide they need to take 3 away. Another friend decides this isn’t right either. They carefully count out the sheets of paper and decide they just need to take 2 away. After 55 items have been matched to their numerals, there is a quiet moment of contemplation and then the children quickly restore all of the materials!
Central’s Little Free Library and Pantry
Thanks for helping us give back to our neighbors. A neighbor who depends on this pantry for food has posted a request on the pantry asking that donations include food containers that someone without a home, kitchen, or can opener can manage. We ask that donations contain only foods within the expiration date. All foods should be as healthy as possible. We can do this!
Month of Giving
Books for Little Free Library & Food for Little Free Pantry
Please feel free to send your donations in with your child. Individual classrooms will collect these items and the front office will manage them. Older students will help us keep our pantries stocked with your generous gifts. Your child (and our neighborhood community) benefits from your modeling of giving to others. It inspires them and helps them see how they themselves can help others. This is a very big deal.
Month
Classroom
January
Upper Elementary
February
Middle School
March
Infant and Toddler
April
Preprimary
May
Primary A
June
Primary B
July
Primary C
August
Lower Elementary
September
Upper Elementary
October
Middle School
November
Infant and Toddler
December
Lower Elementary
