Spirit Day at Windsor Street Montessori has become a rain-or-shine annual event–and this year brought spring showers throughout the morning. But just as we were scheduled to begin, the skies cleared–as if on cue–so we could run and celebrate outside. To celebrate the end of the year and in honor of another year of the Go! Windsor marathon of running, … Read More
November UE News
UE Octoberish News This last few weeks we have been up to all sorts of stuff. Language – Sidney, Lushen This October we have been focusing on creative writing for Halloween. Each of us wrote long scary stories and 5 words scary stories. We presented both to the class. They were pretty terrifying. In spelling we have been learning tricks to … Read More
October UE News
Dear UE families, Thank you for your patience as we get our blog project underway. We look forward to sharing many more updates throughout the school year. The students will be posting new submissions at least once a month. We are off to a terrific start for the school year and have many exciting things on the horizon. In the … Read More
April UE blog post
Math – Grant and Paterson This April in the UE, the 4th years have been starting pre-algebra. They have been working on multiplying integers, dividing numbers with unlike signs, adding the opposite, etc. The 5th and 6th graders have also been working more on algebra. They have been multiplying and dividing fractions, too. Language – Kiera and Lushen The UE … Read More
commercials: Upper El short films
Screened at the school’s fourth annual Movie Morning on Saturday, this set of short films appeared at intermission and delighted the WSMS crowd. Shot with the help of our music teacher, Violet Vonder Haar, these commercials for fictional companies also feature music created by students in GarageBand. The Upper Elementary students wrote, directed, edited, and acted in these two short films. The … Read More
January blog post
Math – Jimmy & Grant Recently, we have started a new unit on angles. We have studied types, measuring, and finding angles. We have also been working on mean, median and mode. Statistics are one of the most important subjects in math, so it has been a huge part of our curriculum. We are still doing division and division flashcards … Read More
December blog post 12/12/14
Math – Jimmy and Kiera This month in math, we’ve been working on division, and geometry. Essentially, math has been a fun but not easy part of our work cycle. Math has mainly composed of division, but not 100%. As far as math goes it has recently been a very fun part of our work cycle. History and Science – … Read More
UE News November 2014
Language Lately in the upper elementary, spelling has been a big part of our work cycle. Most of our spelling words are chosen from the 5th & 6th grade spelling lists. Not all of our language curriculum composes of spelling, though. Cursive and grammar are also big parts of our language cycle. We’ve mainly been working on different types of … Read More
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