Important Dates: Parent/Teacher Conferences in October 2026.
Sprouts: October 21-October 23
Blossoms: October 23-October 29
You have a chance to sign up for a 20-minute conference time to discuss your children progress one on one with the teachers.
If you still haven’t signed up for them, please use The Doodle sign up link sent in your class group to reserve a spot for your conference time.
The Zoom link for the conference will be sent the week prior to the conferences on October 18th 2026.
Warm Welcome to Ophelia Liu in the Sprouts classroom.
Birthday Wishes to Ophelia, Ayraa, Roshan, Allegra, Mateen, Caleb, Charlie, Elijah, Angad, and Leila in October.
Thank you to all the families for sending healthier snack options in the children’s lunch boxes to school.
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.
We look forward to continuing working with each child.
Message from the Director: Some common topics related to young children’s language, self-control, communication will be covered monthly. This month’s topic is:
Guiding your child’s behavior: Children are exploring new things in their world. Their feelings are some of the new sensations they are exploring. Here are some suggestions for helping your child learn to control their strong emotions and behaviors. Remember, your child is learning what to do at this age, with your help and guidance, they will develop the ability to control behavior’s as they get older.
| What to do | Why do it |
| Read your child’s cues to know when hungry, tired, sick or We overstimulated. | Children have less control of their behavior when they don’t feel well or rested. You can prevent upsetting behavior by meeting their needs before the behavior is out of control. |
| Take time to give undivided attention several times a day, especially when you sense getting out of control. | Your love and attention will help feel important and want to please you. Good discipline begins with a good relationship. |
| Put away objects that are off limits. Make their space safe. | Limit tempting situations. While they are learning to do this, help by removing as many “no-nos” as you can. |
| Set a few limits for her behavior and enforce then consistently. | The world can be confusing place for children. Carefully use a few rules and enforce them the same way all the time. As children learn what to do, you can add limits a few at a time. |
| Talk to other people who care for your child and coordinate what you do. Consistency of the rules is key. | It is easier for a child to learn limits and understand consequences if they are the same when with care providers. |
To be continued next month.
We thank you for entrusting your beautiful children in our care.
Sprouts Classroom: Highlights the well settled new children into the classroom/school environment. They are learning to follow the schedule, make smooth transitions and enjoy circle time singing songs.
The beautiful season of fall brings shades of brown, red and yellow in our environment. It is a great transition in our curriculum from the study of colors to fall colors shapes of leaves.
The exercises of Practical Life with bring many fallen leaves and other acorns for pouring and spooning. Many different size pumpkins, gourds and squash will be presented to wash, scrub and cut open. We will wash the pumpkin seeds, roast, and taste them. We taste different ways to use pumpkin next month (November).
Children had a blast exploring colors. They made guesses on what colors when mixed make a new color and how to make brown and black they had to mix all three primary colors. Children noticed colors all around them, in nature and man-made.
Manipulatives: Children will enjoy working with many puzzles, connecting, and linking works, building with blocks, and stacking.
Language: The letter sound of “h and j” will be introduced.
Mathematics: We will count with small pumpkins, introduce estimation, diameter, and circumference to measure the pumpkin.
Sciences: learn the parts of a pumpkin, trace and label them.
NOTE: Music Program
We will continue to offer music in our Montessori environment.
In October the younger children will continue making sounds with the rhythm sticks, jingle bells, and shakers to explore dynamics and rhythm. We will sing a song, We Tap our Sticks, and practice alternating between playing and resting our instruments. We will explore the fall season through music by singing songs about apples, pumpkins, and autumn leaves. We will be dancing with scarves to explore the movements of falling leaves such as twirling, floating, and drifting.
Through creative movement activities the children will experience the joy of collective
movement and express the mood of the music.
The older children will also learn songs about autumn’s beauty and the gifts of the season like,
The Leaves Are Red And Yellow In The Fall and Shake The Apple Tree. Through expressive
movements the students will create and perform a musical story about falling leaves. They will learn about the musical concept, “high-low” by using a variety of melodic instruments such as
the recorder and the glockenspiel. We will also explore high and low sounds we create with our singing voice by matching higher and lower pitches. We will play the ascending and descending music scale on the keyboard and the tone bars.
The children will be learning about the keyboard instruments focusing on the piano and the
organ. Our composer of the month is Johann Sebastian Bach, and we will learn about this great composer from the baroque era and listen to some of his famous music.
What we have learned:
Questions to ask your children: What is a glockenspiel? How is it different from a
xylophone?