Newsletter: August 2025
Dr. Maria Montessori’s Quote:
“Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.”
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
Hearty Congratulations!!! MIA’s batch of 2025 graduates and their families!
TK: Luke Blaby, Freddie Phillips, Ryan Leong, Liam Elmi, Aahnik Doshi and Kiera Heneghan.
K: Galen Merkow, Paxton Robbins, Alara Tavakoli and Kavin Garg
We are so proud and pleased to see them blossom, ready to shine and take on new challenges as they enter the big world of TK and kindergarten and beyond. We wish them the BEST!
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Thank you to all the families for taking the time to attend the celebrations on July 11 and making it so special for the children.
August: We are excited to start the new cohort this month!
Warm Welcome to all the new children and their parents in the Sprouts classroom: Caleb Westman, Charlie Donner, Shepherd Forslund, Emerson Sidhu, Lily Omid, Veera Shah, Tristan Liu, Leila Loh-Islam, Ayraa Cullen, and Aryan Sotoodian.
Important Dates in September: Closed: Monday September 1 in the observance of Labor Day Holiday!
Warm Birthday Wishes to Sohaila and Raehmat on turning four and Alexander McFarland on turning five years old in August!
In July: Children enjoyed learning about the food triangle/Pyramid and tasting many foods, they tasted cooked beets, sweet potatoes, yams, Kiwis, dairy products like milk, butter, cream cheese, string cheese and made vanilla yogurt at school and thoroughly enjoyed eating them.
August Curriculum Highlights: Ocean Life and Country of EL Salvador
We will introduce a small country of EL Salvador from North/Central America. Ms. Maritza will be showcasing the geography, language and its culture with sharing many artifacts from the same. We will taste different foods too.
The exercises of Practical Life with pouring, squeezing using ocean creatures will be introduced which will enhance their fine motor skills.
Water Play with ocean creatures and the washboard for strong hand muscles has been a huge success with the children, we will continue to offer more opportunities to do the same.
We have introduced the five animal kingdoms: Amphibians, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles and Birds. The children are enjoying learning about the “Frog”, its body parts, habitat and its place in our overall environment. We will introduce the “Fish”. They use many different mediums to enhance the study of each unit in art, with manipulatives, in language and math.
Manipulatives: Children will enjoy working with many sea/ocean puzzles, connecting, and linking works, building with blocks, and stacking.
Language: In addition to many pictures to object, upper- and lower-case letter matching works, The letter sound of “j and k” will be introduced/reintroduced. Many new 3 letter reading works related to the ocean unit will also be presented.
Music: In conjunction with our summer theme, enhancing our curriculum with summer themed musical program.
In August the class will explore the ocean and its
habitat through music. This unit is the favorite of many
children and it is a perfect summer theme. We will sing
songs about the many different ocean animals including
the children’s favorites like sharks, whales, and hermit
crabs. We will also explore the ocean drum and listen to
Camille Saint-Saëns’s musical composition, Aquarium, and
we will imitate a school of fish to move along with the
music. We will create ocean waves to match the
gentle and slow beat of the music to imitate a
peaceful ocean. We will sing a beautiful song
about a seashell and discover ways people
created instruments out of shells and plants of the ocean.
Thank you for entrusting your beautiful children in our care.