Great Room students experienced Montessori’s “History of Writing Lesson.” They explored different types of writing used through history: cave drawing, cuneiform, Greek, Irish minuscule and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Big Bang Art
TNSM 1st graders created works of art based on what they’re learning about the Big Bang Theory. It’s fascinating to see how each of them was inspired.
Students create drawings of the Mansion for their quilt square – This Is the Place.
Each year, elementary students create quilt squares that are sewn together into a wonderful piece of collective art. Their work is auctioned at our annual fundraising event to bring in important dollars for our school. The theme this year is, “This Is the Place,” and the Mansion certainly is an important structure at the heart of TNSM. The school has rested within its walls for 45 years with many families spending a decade or more finding comfy nooks for reading, enjoying the building’s Victorian charm, and being welcomed each day with chalk art flowing down each step onto the walkway …
Piet Mondrian and the Study of Lines
Our 4th grade students have been learning about types of lines, position of lines and the relationship between lines. To complement their study, they looked at the work of Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian. In his early years, Mondrian painted landscapes and still lifes, but after moving to Paris, his work started to reflect the Cubists style of using straight lines and right angles. Fourth grade students created their own Mondrian work along with their own title for their art masterpiece. Their work is on display in the Annex.
Pendulum experiments help with motion and energy studies.
Annex students studied motion and energy and performed experiments with pendular motion. They first formed hypotheses to guess if changing either the angle or the length of the pendulum would result in a faster or slower swing time.
Preprimary students learned about solids, liquids and gases.
Preprimary students learned about solids, liquids and gases. They experimented, using various materials to make bubbles. They discovered how to control their breath to create the biggest bubbles and found out which materials worked best.
Elephants on a Spider’s Web
Preprimary teacher Margaret Kellar sang “Elephants on a Spider’s Web” in Spanish while her students, pretending to be elephants on the web, fell into a heap once the web broke under their weight.
Cooperative Learning
Whether on the playground or in the classroom, TNSM children can often be found helping each other as they learn new tasks.
6th graders act out the life of a cell.
In Human Biology, the 6th graders demonstrated a cell’s life. Each represented an organelle and acted out the job that each performs. They did a wonderful job of bringing it to life!
The Diversity Committee wants you to know…
September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage month. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, kicked off the month with an inaugural reading at the Library of Congress. In keeping with the school’s Peace Education, our mission is to inform, empower and promote diversity within our school community and the city at large. By hosting events on campus and around Cincinnati, we hope to engage in conversation and raise awareness of our school. Our goal is to fund a Diversity Scholarship. The 2015-2016 Diversity Committee members are: Jamelle Bowers, Erin DeSantis, Jessica Donohue-Dioh, Michelle Gardner, Alicia Gibson, Karen Hills-Skipper, Kira Hinkle and Jackie Wilson and …