April Newsletter 2025!

Newsletter: April 2025

Dr. Maria’s Quote: “There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.”

Warm Birthday Wishes for Kiera, Zia in the Blossoms classroom on turning four years old in April.

Dates to Remember:

School Closed Friday April 18 (Spring Holiday)

Parent/Teacher conferences:  

Sprouts Classroom: April 15-17

Blossoms Classroom: April 21-25

School Picture Day: Tuesday April 29 8:30-10:30 AM.

Dear Parents, please use the doodle link posted in each of the classrooms in Brightwheel. It is an opportunity to schedule a time to meet with your child’s teacher for parent/teacher conferences. It is so wonderful to share your child/ren’s progress with you. It fills our hearts with joy to see them blossom as they explore the Montessori environment, learn to navigate social interactions, and overcome emotional challenges to be the most well-adjusted child they can be.

Here are the links for doodle conference sign ups again.

Sprouts

https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/8691e1f5-cb7d-452b-982e-a37cb6a5721e/select

Blossoms:

https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/4f31cbc9-ac79-4ea7-bbc1-7ae1070271f9/select

Reminder: As the weather is changing, Please apply sunscreen once on children before dropping off, for full-time children we will reapply in the afternoon before going out.

Classroom Activities

Practical Life: Spring activities with eggs whole hand transfer, spooning, dry and wet pouring. Bubble/froth making, color mixing and sieving.

Language: The initial sounds of “q and r”. the booking making with all sounds covered so far “a-p”.  letter formation practice for older children.

Story books this month: “The very little girl, Little cloud, Emily’s balloon, Shadows”.

Math: Continue to use spring objects to reinforce symbol and quantity association. Practice number formation.

Sciences: Spring season curriculum activity: We are very excited to introduce the life cycles of lady bug and butterfly to the children next week. They will observe, feed them and learn the names egg, caterpillar, chrysalides, butterfly, egg, larva, pupa and adult ladybug.

We will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 with Reuse, Reduce and Recycle initiative discussions and practices.

Sensorial: Grading with wooden knobbed cylinders and knob less cylinders, rabbit faces ordering from largest to smallest.

Smelling jars with common household spices like cinnamon, black pepper, and rose water

Art: Exploring art with finger paints and making clouds and rainbows and lots of spring works with flower making.