Newsletter: March 2026
Birthday celebrations in March: Warm Birthday wishes for Sidhant, Artin and Derek in the Blossoms classroom on turning five and four years old respectively!!
Montessori BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – A LOVELY CELEBRATION OF LIFE CEREMONY
Montessori birthday celebration gives a concrete way for young children to understand the months of the year and the earth’s revolution around the sun each year. It also is a way for children to feel special and to connect with their place in the world. To celebrate in class, we request parents to bring pictures of their child from each of his years and share important milestones at circle. A healthy snack for the group maybe be brought in to share. Some ideas for snack are small muffins(no cupcakes please), fresh fruit or crackers. Snack should be low in sugar.
Important Dates:
March 8: Daylight Saving Time
March 20: spring equinox
March 20: March Equinox, first day of Spring and Celebrating “Nowruz” Iranian spring celebration!
April 3: School closed in observance of Good Friday/Easter Holiday.
Special Celebration for to All TK and Kindergarten bound families: Friday June 12 from 8:30-9:30 AM
Please send me your last date with MIA latest by March 13, 2026. Thank you to the families who have already done so.
Parent/Teacher conferences:
Sprouts April 16-17.
Blossoms April 20-24
Sign in times will be sent the first week of April. You will be able to pick a time slot for 20 minutes to discuss your child’s progress at school.
Help: We are looking for old National Geography magazines to further children’s experience in Geography. We will use them to cut out pictures of landforms like the lake, system of lakes, island, archipelago, isthmus, Bay, cape etc to create their own landscapes. If you have any of them, please send them to us, we will really appreciate it.
In February: Children were introduced to six countries in Asia that primarily celebrate Lunar New Year: China, Mongolia, Malaysia, Vietnam, North Korea and South Korea.
Children enjoyed making the dragon, lanterns along with having a musical parade. They have been learning about diversity at school, in community and in the world.
The older children made doll outfits with patterned paper.
The Lyrics to the diversity song are as follows: It is available on YouTube
“ In this big, big world, there is only one me , ——–
So Many Colors, So Many Shapes | Diversity Song | The Singing Walrus
Celebrating the cultural diversity, we will be presenting Nowruz celebration of spring in the Persian culture. We will share books, wheat grass, eggs and talk about the significance of the traditional symbols. We are excited to bring it to the children as we celebrate diversity. Children will be introduced to Iran, a country in the Asian Continent and its culture. They will make the map, flag and learn about their food and traditional outfits.
Language: We will introduce the sounds of “p and q”. We play games like Rhyming words, I spy with my little eyes game, in addition to making booklets. We will use St. Patrick’s day symbols for whole hand transfer and pincer activities.
These games can also be played at home to reinforce any concept like colors, shapes, letter sounds or basic numbers.
Days of the week, months of the year and Calendar making work is also available to the children.
In Art, children will learn to make kites with using metal insets, collage, watercolors and paper lions.
In Practical life, lots of green shapes to practice whole hand transfer, dry and wet pouring.
Spanish: Afternoon circle is done in Spanish. Every concept and lesson in the morning circle is done in Spanish to introduce the same vocabulary.
NOTE FROM THE MUSIC TEACHER
Our music classes in March will be about the upcoming spring season.
The children in the younger group will sing songs about birds, like Little
Birdie in the Tree and Two Little Black Birds. Through synchronized
musical movement activities, such as rocking, jumping, and dancing we
will learn to coordinate the beat with external stimuli. The children will
explore the tambourine and learn how they can make sounds by shaking
or tapping.
The children in the older group will also learn about spring through
music. We will listen to classical music about birds and talk about how
they build nests and lay eggs in the spring. We will learn to identify the
sounds of the robin, woodpecker, bluebird, and owl. We will also learn
songs about these birds, like Little Red Robin and Blue Bird Sing Good
Morning. Through repeating phrases from these songs we will be
working on pitch matching both collectively and individually. We will
also do various beanbag activities to explore the musical concepts
“high” and “low.” The children will be introduced to the recorder and the flute and learn the differences between the two instruments.