Bloom! Blog
Visit from the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program
This morning, as part of our current unit on birds, the children received a visit from the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program rescues, rehabilitates, and (when possible) releases injured birds of prey. They also offer a comprehensive...
Happy Birthday Thomas Edison!
Having completed a unit of study on magnetism, it only makes sense to introduce the children to some of the natural laws associated with electricity. The main sensorial key for introducing electricity in the Montessori classroom is allowing children to construct a...
Visit from Lluvia
This morning, the children were treated to a special visit from our CSA farmers, Mark and Kena Guttridge of Ollin Farms, and their three week old lamb Lluvia (pronounced "Juvia," which translates to "rain" in Spanish).Although lambs generally conjure images of bucolic...
Chinese New Year Celebration
The children have been learning about Chinese New Year, a traditional Chinese festival which begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese lunar-solar calendar (each month follows one cycle of the moon) and ends fifteen days later, on Chinese New Years...
Magnetism
When I give tours of the school, I am often asked about science education for preschool children. Although there seems to be an acknowledgement that children are nascent scientists (in fact, a recent study by the National Science Foundation described them as...
Visit from Dr. Doug Kennedy of Summit Vision Care
The morning began with throngs of excited children lined up outside the school, peering through the doors in anxious anticipation of the excitement which awaited them. "Is he here yet?" the children kept asking. No, they were not waiting for a visit from Santa or...
A Bell’s Not a Bell ‘Till Your Ring It
The Bells are certainly adored by the children. They spent much of the day yesterday perfecting their ability to use the mallet to produce the tones and learning to use the damper. Some of the children began receiving presentations on the preliminary bell lessons. The...
The Bells Are Here!
The bells are here! Nearly a year ago, one of our families made a very generous donation to the school, which we used to purchase this set of Montessori Bells. The bells are the primary material which Montessori used in the 3-6 classroom to develop the auditory senses...
Reminder: Purchase Your CSA Shares by Friday, January 28th!
It is hard to believe, given all of the snow on the ground, but we are hard at work making plans for our summer program!One of the many highlights of the summer program is that we participate in the national Slow Foods USA Farm to School Program. This year, we will be...
The End of the Suzuki Semester
It is hard to believe, but tomorrow marks the end of our first sixteen week Suzuki semester. In a mere four months, our "pre-twinklers" have progressed from struggling to hold a cardboard violin in the correct position without dropping it, to playing their first songs...