Welcome letter 2011 - CR 1
Primary Supply List 2011-2012
Up and Away!Today the classroom experienced some excitement. While I was cleaning the bird cage, one of the babies flew out of the cage! The babies are now the same size as their parents. This baby, whom we’ve dubbed Houdini, flew out of [...]
Last week of school activitiesPlease click on your classroom link below to see the last week of school activities for your specified class. Toddler LWS — CR 3 & 4 Classroom 1 LWS — Primary Classroom 2 LWS — Primary Classroom 6 LWS — Primary Classroom 7 LWS — Primary Classroom 11 LWS [...]
Primary Students Enjoy New Listening Center!During our primary music environment today, students enjoyed using our new listening center that will change how the music environment is structured! The CD player/radio, tape player is a durable stereo with an auxiliary headphone tree with headphones that allows for [...]
DGM Spring Concert Is a Huge Success!If you missed last night’s concert, you missed an exciting night of talent and hard work! Lower Elementary students sang and played recorders beautifully. The Show Choir rocked the night away with popular tunes. The Chamber Wind Ensemble impressed us [...]
What Primary program should I pick for this summer?Recently our information and sign ups for our Primary summer programs were sent out. Did this catch some of you off guard? Like, YIKES!!! summer is right around the corner!!! Wait, it was just Valentine’s day. Some of you have [...]
Tweet TweetA few weeks ago our classroom birds Max and Diamond laid eggs. I wasn’t expecting much from it because I thought Diamond would have to sit on her eggs constantly, and she wasn’t doing that, so needless to say I had my doubts. [...]
Primary Statistics 2012The Desert Garden Montessori Primary Team is pleased to announce the hard work of our outgoing students as translated to achievements in Arizona State Standards. You may have observed similar statistics gathered for Lower Elementary in the Enrollment Slideshow presented [...]
Little GemsI was giving a lesson on the geometric solids the other day with two classroom 1 students, Amanda and Kenny. We were learning about the ellipsoid and the sphere. I held up the ellipsoid for Amanda and asked what shape it was. She [...]
More Precious than GoldOnce upon a time there were two teachers, a traditional school teacher and a Montessori teacher. They had both been in classrooms for 10 years, and knew everything there was to know about educating their students. One day a new parent came up to the [...]
