Hope you all had a great week!

We hope everyone had a great week off. We are all excited to start back school tomorrow.

This week, 1st graders will be given lessons on multiplication, basic concepts in geometry, verb practice, prefixes/suffixes, as well as editing using commas. The 2nd and 3rd graders will receive lessons on subtraction, quotation marks, prefixes/suffixes, and parts of a line in geometry.

Students will be conducting science experiments on static electricity during the week. Also students will be learning the parts of a river in geography. This week teachers will be presenting Great Lesson 5. The Great Lessons were five stories written by Dr. Montessori herself. The 5th great lesson is titled "The Story of Numbers" also called the History of Mathematics. This lesson begins with the earliest civilizations, who often only had "one", "two", and "more than two" as their numeric system. It continues with a look at different numbering systems throughout the centuries, culminating in the decimal system that we use today. The children will also be given lessons on using Roman Numerals as follow-up work.

Please remember to send in your $5 for amaryllis bulbs. The children will all be taking these to the local nursing home as well as singing holiday songs on their visit. Also if you have not turned in your child's permission slip for the holiday performance please do so. Mrs Cheryl is working very hard to assign roles. If for some reason your family will be out of town please let a teacher know as soon as possible.

Week in Review: November 5-9

What an amazing week we had in Lower Elementary. On Tuesday, Classroom 1 and 2 went to see the musical Peter Pan and we all celebrated Diwali that afternoon.

Please remember that we have started our annual Food Drive this week. Help us out by donating to the Catholic Center of Concern by bringing in the following items.

Classroom 1 (Genie's room): Cereal
Classroom 2 (Sara and Tejal's room): peanut butter/ Jelly or Jam
Classroom 3 (Amber and Catherine's room): Can goods

Important Dates and Reminders

Monday, November 12th NO SCHOOL/Veterans' Day
Tuesday, November 13th Classroom 3's Field Trip to Peter Pan
Tuesday, November 13th NO SCHOOL LUNCH
Wednesday, November 13th Peace Assembly at 9:00 am
Friday, November 16th DISMISS at 1 pm

Thanksgiving Break will be November 19-23.

Week in Review: October 29 - Nov 2

We had another great week in Lower Elementary. On Wednesday we celebrated Halloween but we still worked hard the other four days!