The Milwaukee Montessori School Blogosphere

Thank you for visiting our MMS Classroom Blogs.

Click on any of the classroom names to the right to see what they’ve been up to recently.

New for the 2012-2013 school year, some of our classrooms will be updating MMS Family and Friends about what is happening in their classrooms via Facebook instead of a classroom blog.

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By being a fan of our Facebook page, you’ll get updates about what is happening all around MMS as well as specific updates from these classrooms:

• Stepping Stones
• Mrs. Fritsche’s Lower Elementary
• Ms. Kearns’ Upper Elementary
• Mr. Swanson’s Upper Elementary
• Junior High
• Art
• Music
• Athletic Classes & Teams
• Milestones
• Nighthawks

Thanks for checking in!

It is hard to believe that summer flew by already, but here we are, on the cusp of a new school year.

Before we dive in though, enjoy a last glimpse of summer fun:

Want to see and read more about Summer Program 2012?  Visit the Summer Highlights page on the MMS website, click here.

See you back at school soon!

This year’s Musical Drama & Set Design Summer Program Class did not disappoint!

Our summer students put together a beautiful New York skyline set and regaled us with a wonderful show.  Read more on the MMS main website’s Summer Program Section:

http://milwaukee-montessori.org/Our-Programs/Summer-Program/Summer-Highlights/Annie.htm

Our summer drama is always a highly in-demand and well-attended class…  Don’t miss out, join in on the fun next year!

The first week of the MMS Summer Program kicked-off with salsa dancing, pinata making, “Annie” rehearsals, swimming, a trip to the planetarium and a trip to Betty Brinn and more…

Our dancers had quite a fun time learning the art of salsa:

If you haven’t already signed-up, there is still time to join us this summer in our fun classes, field trips and more…  Click here!

…it sure is fun to look back at all of the lessons students have learned, adventures they’ve traveled on and trips they have taken.

There are still a few days of school left though, and we sure hope you’ll be joining us for our end of school year events that are coming up and help us celebrate another successful year:

• End of Year Concerts

• End of Year Picnic with a visit from the Gouda Girls Cheese Truck

Click here to find out more!

Before the lazy days of summer are upon us, students are still hard at work.  Mrs. Loder’s Children’s House students have been working on the fine arts, while Ms. Mueller’s students have been raising butterflies.  Mrs. Brys’s Lower Elementary students have been working with rocks and minerals and more…  Mrs. Fritsche’s students learned about the reasons for Memorial Day, learned patriotic songs and read patriotic books in preparation for the celebration they had just before the holiday.  Our youngest students have been busy planting the MMS garden and learning about the violin!

After school the fun continues both inside and out.  Jayhawks students recently completed their artistically created avatars, and you can have a look by clicking here.  Our soccer players have been doing much more than just kickin’ it at the park after school, they’ve learned the fundamentals of the game and had a fun time doing it.

Thank you for joining us this year on the Blogosphere!  We hope you’ve enjoyed the glimpses into classroom life.

As it is April 30th, we hope the April showers are coming to an end and many May flowers are on the horizon.  But, before we step into May, let’s take a look at all the fun April brought:

Earth Day was a big event, and MMS went outside to enjoy mother earth, read and see what our classrooms did:

• Mrs. Heller’s, Mrs. Loder’s, and Ms. Mueller’s classrooms
• LE classrooms 203 and 208

Many fun lessons were also learned, such as equivalence with the contructive triangles, squid dissection, and quadrilaterals.  And, what about the fun things that have been made, like the butterfly tree completed by Mrs. Wijenayake’s classroom.

Finally, please read about the great accomplishments of our Wisconsin State Fair Youth Art award winners and our Storm track and field team off to a fast start!

WATCH the fun videos and slideshows that have been springing-up on the Blogosphere:

Lion Masks by Stepping Stones:

Can’t get enough of those cute toddlers?  Check out the slideshow of the Toddler Social, click here.

Check out all the adventures that Jayhawks students had during Winter Recess:

Watch Curious George and the Pizza Party from Mrs. Wijenayake’s Children’s House classroom (this pizza party was a reward for achieving 100% classroom participation in the 2011 Annual Fund):

January was a busy month as we all got back in the swing of things after the holidays.  Much has happened in our classrooms…

Just yesterday, our LE students took a trip to the Zoo for Groundhog’s Day, take a look.

Mrs. Heller’s Children’s House students cared for their feathered friends and one student talked about his favorite work.  Mrs. Wijenayake’s students wrote about Martin Luther King Jr.

LE Room 207 has been having lessons about the sun and prisms, geography, the pythagoras board, and more…  While LE 208 has been learning about the web of life, cubing, pin maps and triangles, and click here to see a recap of their 2011 fun!

Things have been very busy in the art room with new self portrait work, and some students’ previous self portraits have recently been honored by placement in the Children’s Hospital permanent collection!  The JH Blog is also featuring self portrait artwork, can you guess who is who?  And, check out the second grader’s lesson in Harmony.

Here in Wisconsin, we’ve been talking a lot about the weather recently, but how do they say it in French?

And, for those of you attending Spaghetti Dinner this weekend, here is a sneak peak at some of the Classroom Auction items you’ll be able to bid on:

• Mrs. Begum’s Class
• Mrs. Heller’s Class
• Ms. Mueller’s Class
• Mrs. Wijenayake’s Class
• Mrs. Arora’s Class
• Ms. Kearns’s Class
• and more Auction Sneak Peaks…

Welcome back to the Blogosphere and Happy New Year!

We enjoyed a really nice holiday break, after 2011 Holiday Concerts got us all in the spirit.  Check out our facebook page for the full gallery of Holiday Concert photos, click here.

You may also enjoy reading about some of the fun lessons and learning experiences that took place in December before we ended the year 2011…

Stepping Stones toddlers practiced with Montessori Materials, click here to watch.

Children’s House students were visited by Mr. Finley of the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, see the pictures on Mrs. Begum’s, Ms. Mueller’s and Mrs. Wijenayake’s blogs.

LE 207 students worked on measuring, commutative property and sentence analysis, while LE 208′s Sriram finished the Longest Division Problem!

Last week, the whole school got in the feasting and giving thanks act.

But, before the feasting could begin, lessons were learned about the 1600′s – in Mrs. Fritsche’s Lower Elementary class, part of that lesson was learning to make butter!  Also, time was spent thinking about what we are thankful for, read the thoughts of thanks from Mrs. Begum’s and Mrs. Loder’s students.

A wonderful meal does come with prep work, see part of the meal being prepared in Mrs. Brys’ Lower Elementary class.

And finally, the moment we were waiting for, the feasting.  See pictures and recaps on the Blogosphere of Mrs. Begum’s, Ms. Mueller’s, Mrs. Wijenayake’s, and Mrs. Fritsche’s classrooms enjoying their meals.

To see our expanded Thanksgiving feast photo gallery, click here.

Thank you for visiting the Blogosphere!