December News:

In December, our schools’ theme is Seasons and Holidays. Our literature will be The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.  This book details the act of selfless giving.  This is a great, age appropriate, book that helps children understand the importance of giving and how nice it feels to give to others. The children will be able to watch as the tree continues to give and give and still feels happy. This will be a great reminder of what is important during the holiday season! Also, we will be hosting a family who is less fortunate. If you are able, please, see the front desk about what to bring! Thank you for all that you do! Our scholars love to give and help others!  We have many fun projects and learning opportunities planned for our scholars here at San Clemente Montessori. 

November Recap:

In November we scheduled Parent-Teacher Conferences and they were a success.  Our staff enjoys getting one-on-one time with our families to establish a great rapport. It’s also a great opportunity to further communicate each child’s success related to academics and individual progress.   We also hosted a “Parents -Date-Night-Out” for our San Clemente Montessori families. The staff and children had so much fun craft-making, playing with other friends, and enjoying pizza!  It’s such a fun environment to play with children and their siblings.  

Our curriculum focused on Virtues and Values.  We learned about friendships, kindness, and being helpful. November’s curriculum was a great focus in tandem with the holiday season. It allows our scholars to focus on truly understanding the virtue of kindness and sharing.  In addition to what we are all thankful for each day.  Our Literature focus was reading Fill a Bucket – Empathy Program by Carol McCloud and Katherine Martin.  Our Thanksgiving Harvest Feast consisted of delicious food, sharing great times with our families and classroom friends. It’s such a great time to reconnect with our families. Each child was eager to share our turkey feast and all the fixings in a family style setting. 

Enrichments had a great variety of introducing new ideas to our daily routine. In music we learned about the world renown Beethoven. And how some of his greatest works were composed while he was going deaf.  We enjoyed creating many art projects related to Thanksgiving and the Fall season.  The children were also introduced to Jackson Pollock’s splatter technique, also known as his “drip” technique. Our little chefs prepared from scratch yummy sliced cinnamon apple chips, mini pumpkin pies, and delicious pumpkin pie smoothies. In Spanish, they were introduced to the months of the year, parts of the body, and Harvest food groups vocabulary.  Computer class is always fun. The children continued working on ABCMOUSE.com and continue to learn areas of Math, Language, and Reading.  

October Recap: 

Fall has officially arrived, and with it, comes cool and warm weather. It also allows for great art projects and fun events.

In October, the students had so much fun learning about the Fall season, our Five Senses, and Exploring Feelings. The children were able to have hands on experiences related to the five senses with smelling different aromas, fruits, and veggies. As well as understanding sense of touch, sight, listening, and taste.

As we focused on exploring feelings, children were able to firsthand see and label feelings. Different projects such as reading books about feelings and art projects related to feelings allowed children to understand and vividly see emotions.  The students were able to learn empathy and a genuine compassion for others.

The Literacy focus was on the book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson.

Our Enrichment classes have been so much fun to witness a different perspective on the way children learn. We offered children different areas to enhance the learning process. We explored areas in Art, Music, Cooking, Spanish, and Computers.  Each child gets to experience something different every single day. This makes for a fun interaction.  Our scholars have been continuing to work on mastering the art of music, producing playdough from scratch, fine-tuning their technology skills, learning introductory Spanish vocabulary, and creating watercolor masterpieces!

Our Scholastic Book Fair was a success!  Thank you to our generous families for buying and donating books to your child’s classroom! 

September News: 

As we roll into fall, we want to thank all of our families for coming out to Back to School Night! We loved seeing everyone and their families explore the classrooms and all of their children’s work they have done thus far!

In September, the students learned all about themselves! Our students all worked on activities that help them define what is unique about themselves and embrace all their similarities and differences!

Enrichments have started! We have begun to introduce Cooking, Art, Spanish, Computers, and Music! Our scholars have been working hard making music, making playdoh from scratch, working on technology skills, learning introductory Spanish vocabulary, and creating watercolor masterpieces!

Summer Recap:

What a fun summer it has been! Lots of changes, fun visitors, and themed activities for the students.

Throughout the summer we have had lots of fun new changes! In our front office, you should have noticed a new face!

Ms. Lexie joined our administration team! If you haven’t stopped by the front desk yet, come say hello! Ms. Lexie will be with us until the end of fall, as she is moving due to military arrangements. But she is here to help you with any questions or concerns you may have. If you need to get in touch, please email her at SanClementeMontessori@gmail.com

We kicked off the summer fun with weekly themes (and some new décor around the school!) You may have noticed some fish, planets, and farm animals that took over our front lobby and hallways. Our students and teachers worked diligently on new classroom artwork, themed sensory tables, and new fun songs for the students to enjoy.

We had Ranger Jack, Magic Joe, and our friend Mr. R from the Discovery Cube join us for fun presentations that included bubbles, magic, and puppets!

We also had water days and bubbles that did not disappoint! The students had a splashing good time!