Dear Oak Families, This week we will ccontinue learning about color mixing. We will be experimenting with colorful carnations. Please make sure that your child has gloves, boots and snow pants to be able to play in the snow. Children without snow clothing can play on the sidewalk. Our first Open House date this year will be on Saturday, January 30th, from 9am-12pm. Share your love of CTMS with friends. When they enroll, you will receive [...]Read more →
Dear Primary Parents and Families, Welcome back from winter break! The Cedar and Oak Room students have been finding new and creative ways to weather these wintery days and with spring just around the corner many exciting events are popping up. We would like to thank all of the families who joined us for “Look What I Can Do Night” in the beginning of the month. It was magical to see many of the […]
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Dear Primary Families, Dashing through the snow! What a pleasure it was to watch the children delight in our snow covered playground during the last few days of January! The weeks of cold weather that kept us indoors for most of the month were tough on everyone, but we made due with exciting new lessons and indoor movement activities. Thank you to Treyton Laconti and his family for their “bean bag jump” gift for our movement room! It has […]
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Happy New Year to all of our friends and family at the Children’s Tree Montessori School! The month of December kept us very busy and productive. Along with our preschool and Kindergarten curriculum studies, we also spent time learning about the different December holiday celebrations. Thank you so much to John Meisel and his family for making dreidels to share with the Cedar room, as well as teaching us about Hanukkah. […]
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“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie Thank you all so much for making November such a wonderful and memorable month. We began the month with “The Silent Journey.” The families that attended explored Montessori materials from all areas of the curriculum. For those who could not make it to the curriculum night or silent journey, please considering taking an hour to observe the children working in one […]
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Dear Primary Parents, The Cedar and Oak Room students have both enjoyed their first months at school. The compassionate, kind and mindful group of students that we have the opportunity to get to know this school year are consistently engaged in exploring their interests. The month of October has come and gone all too quickly and much has been done. We are sure that you and your children have been having conversations about their studies […]
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Spring has finally sprung and we welcomed our new season with butterflies we have been watching transform in our classroom. In April we learned about the butterfly life cycle and the parts of the butterfly. We sang “head, thorax, abdomen” to learn the parts of the butterfly and acted out the life cycle using yoga poses. We all enjoyed reading The very hungry caterpillar and making our own butterflies using green macaroni and beads.We have […]
Read more →How healthy childhoods can prevent chronic disease Dr. Keith Mirante will teach you how to make the right choices for your children that can prevent chronic disease in a FREE EVENT hosted by Children’s Tree Montessori School. You will learn: Presenter: Dr. Mirante graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa in 2007, with a degree of Doctor of Chiropractic. In 2008 he formed his own private practice, Coastal Chiropractic & Wellness LLC in […]
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We had so much learning about Antarctica in January! We started out study learning that Antarctica is so cold and dry that it is the largest desert in the world! Our favorite thing we learned about were the animals. We learned about the krill, leopard deals, killer whales and penguins and the Antarctica food chain. We learned about the different kinds of penguins and measured an emperor penguin with a ruler. Did you know an […]
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