Front Page News!
The Steubenville Herald-Star has a nice write up of Mr. Tom completing the course work for his AMI Elementary diploma through the Southwest Institute of Montessori Studies. Miss Noëlle, of course, earned her AMI Primary diploma through SIMS in 2021.
We were happy to discuss what this means for the children entrusted to our care.
Check out our website for a link, if you don’t get the Sunday paper in print.
Slime camp was a messy blast! The children made gak, ooblek, fluffy slime, play doh, clear slime artworks, baked clay creations, edible slime, and even some elephant toothpaste! They also did some experiments with different ingredients to see what kind of concoctions they could make!
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Our end-of-year picnic became a zoo! No, really. Paper mache animals, made by our Elementary students during the final three weeks of the school year, made the picnic more than just an opportunity for families to get together and have a good time. Learn more at our website, link in bio.
We have an exciting announcement! Many pieces have come together in unexpected ways and, provided we get 10 enrollments, we will be offering a TODDLER Program in the fall! Toddler will run Monday through Thursday from 8:45 to 10:45 and be for children from the time they are walking with stability (12-15 months) to 3 years.
Admissions to the Toddler program will be conducted in the same way as admissions to Primary and Elementary - beginning with filling out the inquiry form on our website. So, if you are interested please fill out the form and please share with anyone you know who might be interested.
https://hilltopchildrenshouse.org/programs/
Starting off our final prayer table time of the school year with a song written by our of our 10-year-old students.
Pippa knows where to be.
We don`t have AC in the Elementary Building, so fans help make it comfortable in these last days of the year, once the weather really turns warm.
That fur, tho... 😂
Mangia! Every year we work with our elementary and full-day primary children on proper eating etiquette and table manners during lunch time. At the end of the year we treat them to a special lunch at Pastaio Cucina, the best restaurant in town (and recently named the best Italian restaurant in Ohio by one outlet!). Giuseppe and Vincenza at Pastaio really treat us well, we are so grateful. Our kids love the experience, and we love seeing those smiles!
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Working together, sharing skills, and combining insights to figure out a problem. This is what Elementary is about.
Yesterday my assistant shared these pictures with me.
Two students are working on a project involving South America. They had the atlas out, and were musing on the total land area of the continent.
Another student who has done more in the area exercises of Geometry volunteered to help out, and he pulled out the yellow area material. The yellow area material helps students see how the area of a polygon, in this case triangles, can be determined by turning the polygon into a rectangle — area is easy to calculate at that point, it`s just base x height.
I`m not in the classroom this week due to my training program, so I wrote back to her that he was on the right track, but it would require them to make the connection to the grid on the map, and then to estimate around the edges.
She was going to read my feedback to them, but the boy who pulled out the yellow material stopped her: "No, we`ll figure it out!"
And they did... The second picture is the result of their calculations: 6,874,000 square miles.
The actual area, according to Britannica, is 6,878,000 square miles.
I`d say calculations to within 4,000 square miles is pretty darn good! #montessori #montessoriactivity #montessorigeography #montessorigeometry #montessorielementary #hilltopmontessorischool #hilltopmontessori
