Elementary Woods River Project

  As the piles of snow melt, a wonderful play and learning opportunity is created for our merry band of civil engineers. They built dams and rivers, helping the water make its way to the lowest point of the Elementary Woods.

See a slideshow sampling what’s on display at the kindergarten art show.

TNSM teacher Jennifer Frank introduced the kindergarten class to many artists and their interests throughout their artist careers. You’ll see student work in the slide show below inspired by Picasso’s blue period and his works dealing with shapes. You’ll see other work inspired by Degas, Sylvette David, and Seurat. The students’ work will be on display this week in the Preprimary Art Room.

Kindergartners write their own play and perform it.

The kindergarten class created their own script, costumes, set and songs for their play called Keep the Earth Clean. In the process, the students practiced concepts of social responsibility and stewardship of the Earth.  

Just because you can’t see air doesn’t mean it’s not taking up space.

Katherine and Quinn perform a scientific demonstration using a paper towel in a glass turned upside down in a bowl filled with water. Will the paper towel stay dry? Watch to find out. Watch to see what happens to the piece of paper Caleb places in the neck of the bottle. Will it be driven to the bottom of the bottle or …

Students learned what’s involved in making maple syrup.

Students in (6-9) took a field trip to the Cincinnati Nature Center. They examined squirrel tracks as they walked from tree to tree gathering buckets of sap from the taps. They pushed their barrel of tree drippings through the woods on a big wagon and brought it to the building where the sap is boiled from a dilute sugary mixture into the thick sugary mix we call maple syrup. It takes a very long time to make maple syrup, and the students enjoyed observing and helping throughout the whole process.      

Study of Weather and Atmosphere

Photos by Maya T. In their study of weather, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students learned what gasses are in our atmosphere and the different layers of our atmosphere. For this demonstration, teacher Nancy Buchman poured liquids of various densities into the glass container to show how the gasses in our atmosphere are more concentrated at lower altitudes than higher ones.

TNSM Makes “Empty Bowls” for Upcoming Event

The New School Montessori is joining others throughout the world to raise funds and awareness for hunger-fighting organizations by hosting an Empty Bowls event. TNSM elementary students will create, glaze and fire clay bowls for use during the event. Ximena Flores, our Spanish teacher who is also an accomplished potter and artist, will lead the students in creating a bowl that will be sold in an “Empty Bowls” event.  Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in …

Lunch menu for March

Audrey and Ryonen have some wonderful lunches planned this month. March Menu             Our Food Philosophy We believe that the education of the whole child is carried through to nutrition.  To that end, we empower our children with the understanding of how food fuels our bodies and teach them to make healthy choices for themselves.  We provide a hot, nutritious, varied and sugar-free meal every day.  We recognize the connections between plate, planet, people and culture and know that the love and thought put into the preparation of our food is experienced by students and staff. Here at …

YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!

Shakespeare is credited with adding thousands of words to the English language. Before beginning their performance of Macbeth this morning, New School Montessori 9- to 12-year-olds recited famous phrases of Shakespeare’s that have become part of our present-day lexicon. Shakespeare Club performed Macbeth for upper elementary students today and will have an evening performance at TNSM tonight (Thursday, February 26 at 6:00). The students’ 45-minute presentation will continue to be performed throughout the city as it travels to various locations. Click below to see the 2-minute presentation of YOU ARE QUOTING SHAKESPEARE!

6th Graders Study Binomial Square Root

The 6th grade students spent the beginning of the year using Montessori materials to multiply binomials and find the square of a binomial.  Now they are using the same materials to find the square root of a number. For this lesson students used the materials to help understand the concrete process, and the next lesson will demonstrate how to find the square root abstractly.  Next up on our spring agenda is the binomial cube and cube root.