Parent Education Night: Educating The Whole Child – The Value of Practical Life and Sensorial Activities
As parents, we often feel pressured to focus on academics, even from a very early age. Montessori education is often credited with accelerated academics, but that is not our focus. The secret of the child is that they will learn quite easily when all their developmental needs are met. Which is why Montessori encouraged the development of the practical life …
Fall Celebration and Trunk-n-Treat
Come join your school community for a few crafts and activities and a car-to-car trunk-n-treat event. Many families are looking for safe, small-scale ways to celebrate Halloween and to enjoy the fall with other families, so we are happy to provide a small, safe event for our school community! Be sure to come in costume!!
Barefoot Books and Enchanted Lion Book Sale to Benefit the Namaste School Library Diversity Project
Namaste Montessori School has paired with Barefoot Books to offer beautiful children's books for purchase with each purchase earning 20% of the purchase price in credit for Namaste! We are making an effort to update and diversify our school library so that the children are exposed to a wider variety of skin tones, hair types, clothing, cultures, and lifestyles. Share …
Primary Campus: Garden Work Day
We invite parents to come and help us put the garden to bed for the fall, to pack away summer toys and clean out planters before the winter comes. It is always great fun to be social and work together! We hope you will join us!
Parent Night: Technology and Child Development
It can be difficult to navigate whether, when, and how much technology to have available to our children, and likely we struggle with screen use as adults. In a fast-paced world of immediate gratification, how do we best support our child's natural development. What boundaries are reasonable and why? The better we can understand the reason behind the decisions we …
Primary Stone Soup
Just like in the story, that we read and reread this time of year, the children will make soup together today! Please prepare an ingredient to send in with your child. The children will add everything into the pot and enjoy the delicious smell all morning as they work. At lunch they will have a chance to sample and even …
Elementary Stone Soup
Our annual tradition returns with an opportunity to cook as a community. Please help your child remember to bring in some ingredients for our community soup to celebrate the harvest and all our many blessings. The children will wash, chop and prepare ingredients and then cook a pot of soup and some corn bread to share at lunch. There might …
Namaste Fall Festival
Last Saturday, Namaste Families gathered for games, crafts, music and food at the Jacksonville Park, for the annual Fall Festival. Thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made this event happen!