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Spirit Week Starts Monday!
After everyone had so much fun last year, Jr. High has planned the Second Annual Escuela Spirit Week. Students and staff from all levels and departments are encouraged to participate, so long as the outfits and accessories don’t interfere with student independence. We look forward to seeing what creative costumes...read more
This Weekend: Primary Playground and Jr. High Farm Improvement
Sign up for Primary Playground Work Day and Jr. High Farm Improvement Day Primary Playground Work Day Saturday, October 15 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. We are looking for 10-15 volunteers with rakes and shovels (snow shovels work well) to help spread wood carpet and finalize the installation of the...read more
Lunch from Around the World: Stew of the Three Sisters
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, we are going to look right here to Albuquerque for lunch on Thursday. As a white person, it feels very important to make sure that this meal doesn’t become either a caricature or appropriative. The point is to try to honor and celebrate the...read more
Inside Escuela: Montessori Materials – Spoken Language
Spoken Language Linking real-life experiences to vocabulary is a key part of language development in Early Childhood.“Once the child can speak, he can express himself and no longer depends on others to guess his needs. He finds himself in touch with human society, for people can only communicate by means...read more
Inside Escuela: Work Share
One of the Montessori classroom’s most compelling elements is that it is interest-driven. The classroom is carefully prepared, so it is primed to meet the students’ intellectual curiosity, wherever it may lead. Miraculous discoveries happen daily; however, as parents of these fortunate students, we rarely witness these moments. The most...read more
Lunch from Around the World: Poutine
While I usually like to give a historical perspective on where our Lunch From Around the World dishes come from, this week is a little different. Poutine was only created in the 1950s and hasn’t had the storied history of some of our other dishes. Poutine is from the Quebec...read more