Category Archives: language arts
Middle School Poetry
Middle School students are writing, creating, and studying poetry. They are working together to compile a list of poetic terms. Favorite poets have been identified and poems have been written in the style of famous poems. Content from their current … Continue reading
Posted in language arts, Middle School
Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary has been busy! Students recently completed a Grandparents Day project. Working with a partner, they brainstormed, wrote a script, rehearsed, and filmed one another. The only part a teacher played was stitching the videos together so it can … Continue reading
Posted in language arts, Lower Elementary, outside, science
Parts of Speech, Montessori Style
In Upper Elementary ELA, students are studying and identifying the various parts of speech using hands on manipulatives. They use the Grammar Sense Board, the Sentence Diagramming Box, and Parts of Speech Bingo to identify parts of speech such as nouns, … Continue reading
Posted in language arts, Upper Elementary
Celebration of Learning
The Upper Unit students were proud to welcome their families to this year’s Celebration of Learning. They cleaned the whole classroom, arranged flowers, decorated the board, and created work plans so that their families could sample their Upper Unit work. … Continue reading
A Visit of Olympic Proportions
Students in Lower and Upper were excited to welcome guest speaker, Keli Smith Puzo. Keli is a two-time Olympian, competing in the sport of field hockey in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012. Many classrooms have been discussing … Continue reading
The History of Mail
For the last month, Lower Elementary has been studying the history of the United States Postal Service. We learned about how letters get from here to there, first by horse and then cars, trains, airplanes, and boats. We followed the … Continue reading
Exploring History Through Fictional Characters
This year in ELA, we are tracing some of the major events in American history and exploring the ways in which history can be conveyed through the experiences of fictional characters, often presented as a blend of documented “truth” and … Continue reading
Posted in High School, language arts, McGuffey, Montessori method, social studies, Uncategorized
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to celebrate with family and friends, but the history of the holiday is complicated and often misunderstood. Based on the book “1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving”, Lower Elementary had a chance to discuss what actually … Continue reading
France
We studied France in the Primary classroom for the past two weeks and ended this unit with an Art History lesson about ballet. We discussed how ballet was brought to France from Italy, where it developed into the performance art … Continue reading
Posted in art, community, guest speakers, language arts, McGuffey, pre-primary, preschool, Primary, primary unit, sensorial, social studies, Uncategorized, upper unit
Gratitude
Each November at the high school, we talk about gratitude. Last year, we read about and listened to speakers explain the importance of practicing gratitude to cultivate a happy life. We engaged the topic through our Seminar discussions. This year, … Continue reading
Posted in foreign language, High School, language arts, McGuffey, Montessori method, Uncategorized
