Dear Parents,

We’ve had a great first week.  We’ve really enjoyed getting to know each other better.  All of the children are meshing well and getting along wonderfully!  We’ve played several games to learn each other’s names and build community.  We’ve talked about how to be a good friend, and we made a delicious “friendship fruit salad” together (Thank you so much for your donations!).  We’ve read a lot of great stories together and had some wonderful discussions and shared ideas and thoughts.  The children have really enjoyed sharing their “getting to know you” papers.  We will finish those next week.  Today we did a fun “numbers about me” math activity.  We also did a creative science activity and a fun team building game  with Ms. Paula’s class, aka  “Mountain Lion Mentor” class.    Overall, it’s been a wonderful week!!

Next week we will begin our “Great Lessons.”  These are the foundational Montessori lessons.  For more information about them visit the most recent “Monday Montessori Moments” on MMA’s blog.  I would also highly recommend that you subscribe to that blog if you haven’t already.

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Krista

 Friendship salad