Our Appreciating Differences teacher, Johnnyé White, invited guests, Edward and Lydia Ellis, to share Native American flute and drum music along with a story about the character painted on their drum. Lydia inspired students with tales of overcoming life-changing strokes to regain enough mobility to continue to express herself musically. Lydia was a teacher in a school system for many years and taught flute lessons. Her life changed dramatically 12 years ago when she suffered from 2 strokes within a 48-hour period that left her hand and leg altered in ways that made it difficult to walk – and impossible …
The Diversity + Community Events Committee provided some resources for how to talk with children about tragic world events.
This article is written by TNSM parent members of the Diversity and Community and Engagement Committee (D+CE) and expresses their views. At TNSM, we are grateful to have this D+CE forum that allows opportunities for members of our community to share their own beliefs, always with the goal of expanding our understanding of each other’s experiences and points of view. Last Friday, nearly a week after intense violence in Israel and Gaza, parents on the Diversity and Community Engagement Committee met. We connected over a shared grief for humanity and a curiosity around how we talk about this decades-long conflict and the …
TNSM alumna Narvis Tribble sang the National Anthem at an FCC soccer game.
Narvis Tribble attended The New School Montessori as a toddler in preprimary through her lower elementary years. She auditioned for, and now attends, one of Cincinnati’s magnet schools, SCPA (School for Creative and Performing Arts) and will no doubt continue to expand in her creative and performance skills. We were thrilled to see Narvis singing the National Anthem at a late summer FCC soccer game. Way to go, Narvis! Click to see Narvis’ interview. Click to hear Navis singing the National Anthem at the FCC game.
TNSM alumni create a lasting remembrance of their friendship and times at The New School
New School Montessori grads often continue in their TNSM friendships – even rooming together in college. This band of friends decided to celebrate their bond by going together to have a little reminder of The New School Montessori (a tattoo of a ginkgo leaf) to carry with them on life’s adventures. Ryonen Ignatius (alumna from the 1980s, current K-3rd grade TNSM art teacher and mom to Brando and Jesse) drew up the sketches and performed the tattoo work. As other friends heard about it, more contacted Ryonen to get their ginkgo leaf tattoos too. Our school leaves lifelong impressions on …
Alumna Annabel Forman visits TNSM and tells of her travels and work in Hong Kong, Prague and Chicago.
We had the pleasure of seeing 2013 alumna Annabel Forman this fall for a tour of the campus, a chat and to reconnect after many years apart. I reminded Annabel of the musicals she used to direct each day during recess on the Mansion Porch. She and head of school Jeff Groh reminisced about Shakespeare plays from the past and looked at brief clips of TNSM Shakespeare videos. Annabel took us on a journey as she explained how her education has taken her all over the world. She said, “I was so sure I was going straight to college. But …
2017 Alumni Share Their Future Plans
Lillie Barger Lillie credits her time at The New School with helping her develop strong social skills and critical thinking abilities that she has used throughout high school and will take with her into the future. At Walnut Hills, Lillie was active in the fashion club and played on the school softball team for four years. Lillie’s jobs have meant a lot to her over the years and have helped bring her career goals into focus. Through Lillie’s work with TAP Healthcare, she was able to see many different jobs in the healthcare field. Working for Panera for 2 years …
(9-12) Students learned about sunspots and solar flares while viewing through 2 telescopes
New School Montessori (9-12) students spent some time looking safely at the sun through special glasses and telescopes made with protective filters for the purpose of studying sunspots and solar flares. (9-12) teacher Casey Rodriguez invited her dad, Jeff, to share some of his knowledge of astronomy with her students. Jeff Rodriguez is a retired high school physics teacher who now volunteers with the Cincinnati Astronomical Society. Jeff cautioned students not to look at the sun unless they were looking through his particular telescopes that were equipped with the proper filters, or unless they were wearing the protective glasses. Jeff …
What staff did over the summer of 2023
Ann Baumgardner My sister and I had a girls’ weekend with Mom over the July 4th weekend. I also made my annual pilgrimage to my hometown later in the summer for a long weekend during our Carnation Festival and met up with high school friends, cousins, and spent time with Mom. My husband Erich and I spent a big part of the summer grandparenting our 4-month old grandson. Our backs, shoulders and wrists are sore from hoisting him to our shoulders, patting his back and swaying on his favorite squeaky floorboard to lull him to sleep. It’s been fun …
Students learned about birds up close!
Our 4th level students have been reading the novel, My Side of the Mountain, which features a boy and his peregrine falcon hunting together. The (9-12) teachers planned an educational afternoon where handlers of birds of prey shared interesting facts about owls, falcons, buzzards and more while circling among the students, birds – in hand and close up. Students learned that barn owls’ eyes take up 80% of their heads and that owls can’t actually rotate their heads all the way around like the cartoons show–just 270 degrees. Barn owls find their prey mostly with their ears. In fact, they …
Obtuse, acute, divergent, convergent – All lines and angles are welcome!
The blacktop just off the front porch of the Mansion served as a perfect surface for 1st and 2nd graders to learn their lessons this week as (6-9) teacher Lauren Burke demonstrated a lesson in early geometry in the great outdoors. 1st level students learned about lines (parallel, divergent, convergent and perpendicular), while 2nd level students learned about the different kinds of angles that live within triangles (right, obtuse and acute angles). The entryway to the school is decorated with all manner of lines and angles as each student practiced drawing and labeling their lines and angles with colorful chalk. These …