Calendar
First day of school for 2010/2011 year is Tuesday 9/7/2010 (For new students) Returning students start Wednesday 9/8/2010
Parent Night is Friday Sept 10th, 2010 at 6:30pm. Welcome back picnic: 9/11/09 3pm
Teacher work day October 15th, 2010
Closed Nov 11th and 12th for Veterans Day and Teacher work day
No classes November 19th for fall parent/teacherconferences
Closed November 24th, 25th and 26th for Thanksgiving
Closed December 20th 2010 through January 2nd, 2011 for Christmas Break.
School starts back the following Monday January 3rd, 2011.
Closed for MLK day
Closed for Presidents Week 2/15 through 2/19 2010
Closed March 26th, 2010 for Parent /Teacher conferences
Closed one week for Spring Break: April 5th-9th 2010
Closed for Teacher work day May 7th 2010
Closed for Memorial Day
Last day of school June 18th 2010. Family picnic at 1:00pm
BIRD's EYE VIEW OF THE YEAR
Our Peaceful Classroom (grace and courtesy)
Primary Colors
Camping and Fall
We will spend a bit of time learning all about the Montessori classroom: introducing students to all the
Montessori materials in the school. Creating a working atmosphere.
Once the students are normalized in the classroom we will be able to expand our study to the
world around us:
The Universe and our Solar System (the great lessons)
Our Planet Earth
Volcanoes
The Four Elements
Cardinal directions
The Western Hemisphere
The Eastern Hemisphere
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica
Land and water Forms
Botony: going on leaf walks, disecting flowers, studying different types of leaves.
Zoology: vertebrates, and invertebrates, mammals and non-mammals,
amphibians and reptiles, mollusks and crustaceans, insects and arachnids.
We will study the lifecycle of a butterfly and the lifecycle of a frog.
Group lesson on cards and counters
working on his number roll
The Well-Trained Mind Montessori
