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Creative movement – working as a group and as individuals.

Jeanne Speier is working on a unit with students this year in creative movement. They explore a wide range of movements and learn about working together while still showcasing their own individual style. Sometimes students create a story that instructs their movements, and other times movements are driven by the music itself. Jeanne’s expertise as a dance teacher at The New School Montessori also includes the Katherine Dunham Technique and Classical Balinese Dance.

StoryCorps – like Interviews Conducted by 1st, 2nd and 3rd Graders.

1st, 2nd and 3rd graders chose a family member to interview for a class presentation. They used NPR StoryCorp’s suggested question list and designed a presentation board. Parker shared about the 9-foot-tall snowman her grandmother made, and students supported each other with questions and comments after each presentation. And of course they applauded in appreciation of all that hard work.  

Shakespeare Club in Enquirer

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The New School Montessori’s 4th – 6th graders made the front page of the A&E section in the Cincinnati Enquirer. They are the ONLY elementary school performing in Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s Project 38, and they just might be the only touring Shakespeare troupe in the country made up entirely of child actors! Click here to read the article.

TNSM Blanketed with Snow.

Our first snowfall. The campus looked beautiful, the flying pig went temporarily snow blind, and the children had a wonderful time!

Ahead of its “TIME”

An interesting article just posted to “Time” magazine about the value of multi-sensory education and nutrition, two things that TNSM has done well with supporting for over four decades.  As my friend Marcy Krever, Communications Director for the American Montessori Society, noted in her own posting of the article link, “the author is a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and double-board certified practitioner in preventive medicine and nutrition.”  I say that’s a pretty good endorsement. Please check out the article at: http://time.com/3582298/coming-to-our-senses-on-education-and-nutrition/ posted by Eric Dustman

Read all about it! TNSM’s Shakespeare Club to be in Enquirer this Sunday!

You’ll want to get a copy of this Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer to see what a reporter had to say about TNSM’s Shakespeare Club and its leaders Jeff Groh and Laura Slanker. The New School Montessori’s Shakespeare Club is proud to announce that it will soon become Cincinnati’s only Shakespeare Touring Ensemble made up entirely of child actors. Starting in March of this school year, a select group of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from The New School Montessori will offer a free 45-minute version of Macbeth to ten schools and institutions throughout the Greater Cincinnati Area. This year The New School …