Woodland Hill Montessori School

Dear Families, We have had another wonderful week of work and getting used to each other. We have introduced more classroom routines and have had some special events. We had our first all school assembly. The children sang the peace song, “Sing Peace around the World” and we observed a ceremony for lighting a candle [...]

Hello, Happy April 1st. The children did a fantastic job presenting their Science Fair work and research to the class. Public presentations are such a valuable skill and the children did so well. It is so nice to be able to give them that opportunity. We learned so many amazing things and got to know [...]

Dear Families, We have had a very busy couple of weeks since our return from vacation. The children are working feverishly to complete copies of their writers’ workshop stories. They have written drafts, copies and are completing final copies (in pen) and illustrating some wonderful stories. These publishing kits will be sent out and returned [...]

Happy New Year Everyone!   We started our week back by welcoming a new student to our class.  Frank Mendoca is a second year student and new to the Albany area.  His twin sister, Yolanda joins Sandy and Olga’s class. Our class is now 21 students.  We welcomed Frank and got reacquainted after break by doing [...]

Hi Everyone,   It was great to see so many of you at Parent/Child Night last week.  It is a wonderful time for me to observe the children in action.  They impress me so much with their enthusiasm for learning.  Parent/Child Night is one of my favorite events because it validates that the children know their [...]

We just came back from the wonderful performance of Diata, Diata the African storytelling, dance, and drum group.  They were amazing!  Here is what a few of children put in their writing reflection in the short time we had to write,  “ One of the women told us all the stories.  She had very long [...]

We have been continuing all of our studies in the classroom.  Last week we ended the week by attending the book fair.  Thank you to Jonathan, Aden, Joseph, and Anya as well as to the Friends of WHMS for their donations of books to our class library.   We will enjoy reading those new books.  We [...]