December 10, 2015

Day

Montessori Preschool/Kindergarten Students are Busy Learning

  The St. Peter’s Montessori Preschool/Kindergarten classrooms are very busy and many different “works” and reading groups take place simultaneously throughout the building. The preschool girls are at the reading table in the sensorial room downstairs. Here the students (no matter the age) begin their reading journey with their “green books”. Day after day, teacher...
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10
Dec

Edible Lab Experiment

In this particular edible lab experiment last week with sixth graders, they used rice crispy squares to demonstrate the formation of metamorphic rocks..  Metamorphic rocks form under extreme heat (electric burner to melt marshmallows) and pressure (stirring and squeezing of the marshmallow rice crispies to form a square).  Mrs. Tara Arnold, science teacher, tell the...
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10
Dec