Woodland Hill Montessori School

Here are a few of our Big/Little Poems for you to read. We will post the rest of them soon. We hope you enjoy them. Big is Me watching small blades of grass. Little is Me looking up  a redwood tree.                                  by Marguerite Big  is Me watching a butterfly in the sky. Little  is Me [...]

Dear Montessori Families,      It was wonderful to see such a great turn out for the Parent & Child night last Wednesday. What a  pleasure it was to watch the children teaching their families with such confidence and independence. This is quite a self-directed group of students.      As some of you have heard my [...]

Up beyond the Night Sky, anUp beyond the Night Sky, an Indigo darkness like Velvet Embraces the farthest Reaches of the mind Sun, mom, stars Everything Yesterday, the children heard a story about the Formation of the Earth. This story is the first of the Five “Great Lessons” which are the foundation of the Montessori [...]

News from Sandy & Olga’s Class    The goldfish have arrived! Five beautiful goldfish are now making themselves at home in our classroom and providing us with a topic of study.  First year students have been learning about the purpose of each type of fin on a fish’s body.  They have drawn and labeled the [...]

        Thursday, September 30,2010 Dear Parents,       School has started with a flurry of activity! In these past few weeks our class has prepared food for and celebrated four birthdays, practiced three fire drills, listened to wonderful music drifting through the hall from the Coffee House, visited the Book Fair, attended [...]