Woodland Hill Montessori School

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class March 1, 2011 Science Fair: The science fair is March 25th at 6:00. We hope your plans for a project are well under way. There are some wonderful resources available in our classroom on loan from the Williamstown public library for project ideas. Your child may borrow one of [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class                  February 11, 2011   We’ve had a great week with lots of learning, and we’ve had five full days of school!  We are beginning to study the continent of Europe and we are in the process of gathering materials for the children’s work.  If you have visited Europe and [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class                  February 1, 2011   Welcome to our snowy week!    I will be out on Friday, January 4th and Monday, January 7th visiting my son, Gabriel,  in Washington, D.C.  He is deployed to Andrew’s Air Force Base as a flight medic. We haven’t seen him in three months and very [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class                                   January 24, 2011   Science Fair:  Our school wide science fair is March 25th at 6:00 in the gym.  This will be a fun night for children and parents to come together and learn more about the exciting world of science.        A typical Science Fair project requires [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class November 29, 2010 Our Author’s Tea was a big success. Thank you to all who attended. I’ve photocopied all of the children’s books so that we may read them again and again at school. The originals will come home this Friday. The children had such a good time preparing [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class             November 8, 2010, 2010   Thank you for helping your child design fascinating experiments to share with the class.  This week we will launch our study of Africa.  We will study this continent according to its biomes.  Biomes will be used as a basis for understanding the adaptation [...]

News from Maryann and Ann’s Class                  October 25, 2010   Today we had a lesson on centrifugal and centripetal force.  We talked about how these two forces prevent the collision of celestial bodies.  The children experimented with these forces by filling a bucket with water, and then swinging it over their heads.  Most often the [...]