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.