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3/4/2008
General News
The Myths of Montessori
A new ongoing article series from GMS and the Montessori Foundation
Each month, The Greensboro Montessori School will offer one to several articles that will help in understanding the Montessori philosophy and Montessori education in general.
The following series is taken from Tomorrow's Child magazine. A publication of The Montessori Foundation ©2008.
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Montessori Myths
by Maren Schmidt & Dana Schmidt
What Montessori Is
In it's simplest form, Montessori is the philosophy of child and human development as presented by Dr. Maria Montessori, and Italian physician who lived from 1870 to 1952...
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2/28/2008
General News
GMS 7th Grader Wins Writing Awards
Nicole Shumaker loves to write. She even does it in her spare time. Recently she has won 2 awards for essays she has written. The first was for an essay about her mentor. She wrote it about a teacher she had at the Greensboro Montessori School. She was awarded the Suave Dollar General Education Essay and the essay was about how someone in your life helped you to improve your life through education. Fantasia Barrino (the American Idol from High Point) was the Suave representative for the contest.
The second award she earned for writing was the one pictured here. It is an award for her essay on Patriotism given by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Congratulations Niki. We're all proud of you.
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2/26/2008
General News
National Middle School Association Says We're on the Right Track
GMS Middle School is ahead of the curve according to NMSA
A recent article in the National Middle School Association's magazine Middle Ground says, "the future belongs to a very different person with a very different mind". The Greensboro Montessori Middle School has been creating a very different student with a very different mind for years.
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2/24/2008
General News
Montessori on Target with Innovation in Education
The recent American Association of School Administrators’ conference focuses on innovation as key to future education.
The Greensboro Montessori School provides a foundation for innovation in your child's education. In fact, Montessorians have been doing it for over 100 years and now more and more current research is backing it up. Problem solving and critical thinking is what's on the mind of today's school administrators.
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2/26/2008
Primary
Sensorial Work Develops into Math
Last year's work is this year's math.
Last year, many students began sensorial work based on basic math concepts. They have repeated this work over and over, constructing and comparing. Now, when higher level math work is introduced, the pay off is that the lessons are very easy for the them.
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2/26/2008
Primary
Asian Studies in Kelly & Rhea's Primary Class
Classroom visitors support class lessons on Asia
The children in Rhea and Kelly's class have begun their study of Asia. They will look at maps, animals, food, stories and more. We are fortunate to have many families in our class willing to share their culture with the children.
Makiko Uchida and her friend came recently to act out a traditional Japanese folk tale about rice balls. After the story the children made their own rice balls and ate them.
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2/24/2008
Lower Elementary
Take a Tour Through Europe
Cathy, Jenn & Margaret's Lower El class share the wonders of Europe
Cathy, Jenn & Margaret's Lower El class recently completed an ongoing project on Europe which culminated in Europe Day 2008. Parents and other Lower El classes where taken on a tour of Europe and it's culture via presentations from student groups.
The presentations were the final product of a five-week long study of European culture, geography, history, art and architecture. Groups of parents where ushered through the class in shifts. The audience browsed visual aids and posters and then listened to oral presentations by each student group. Samples of European cuisine and examples of fashion were also a part of the day-long show.
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2/15/2008
Lower Elementary
Brrrr, Penguins Bring the Chill
Recent sightings of large penguins in Lower El!
Recently, the students of Kaki and Debra's classroom presented their classroom project on penguins. The students have been working on this project for the past 5 weeks and the exhibit consisted of an indoor and outdoor presentation.
Outside, there was a penguin blubber simulator. The simulator was made so the person could feel as if they had blubber on their hand. The students also displayed their global warming project, diorama and their mini-Antarctica posters. Also seen were maps of Antarctica made of tin foil and bubble wrap.
The students demonstrated the climate of Antarctica by showing different types of ice formations in Antarctica surrounded by paper maché penguins they had constructed.
Inside the classroom, the students made their own Rock Hopper penguin masks to wear during the exhibit. Also, to go along with the masks, one student dressed as a penguin by putting 5 large layers of jackets to simulate the penguin’s blubber.
Another "Antarctic Area" in the classroom was "Save the Egg" on the computer. This game shows how to keep a penguin's egg alive. Over all the exhibit was very well put together and it showed the students hard work and determination to their work.
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2/25/2008
Upper Elementary
GMS Hands Out Science Fair Awards.
Several GMS Upper El Students Move on to Regionals.
Last month marked the annual Science Fair in the GMS Upper Elementary level. All students participated and received appropriate accolades for their hard work. Several students' projects moved on to the Non-public Science Fair at High Point University while a few continued on to the Regional Fair at Sciworks in Winston-Salem. One student, Aubrey King, had a project that moved on to the State Fair in Raleigh! Congratulations to all!
These students were selected to move on to the Non-public Science Fair at High Point University:
Individual Projects:
Kory Webster
Melisa Yuce
Tyler Williams
Michael Amend
Emma Krollsmith
Grace Anderson
Ryan Greene
Joseph Taylor
Aubrey King
Caitlin Dibble
Group Projects:
Caitlin Cockcroft and Jenna Schnitzler
Michael Canziani, Daniel Kilimnik and Jonathan Hirsch
These students were selected to move on to the Regional Fair at Sciworks in Winston-Salem:
Michael Amend
Aubrey King
Caitlin Dibble
Caitlin Cockcroft and Jenna Schnitzler
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2/26/2008
Middle School
Bugs & Architecture?
Students find out how bugs and structures are related
In preparation for the March Land Experience, Middle School students have been learning about bug carapaces, the history of certain cultures and their architecture and the math and physics behind one of humankinds' basic needs, shelter. How does all this relate you might ask?
The students' first lesson was on bug carapaces and their structure and use. The following lesson covered the history of several indigenous cultures both static and nomadic. The final lesson made the connection between the bug carapaces and human structures with applied concepts of math and physics.
A fun part of the second lesson was the Nomadic Structural Material Relay (see video link). Students had to relay several different structural materials to the finish to get a hands-on idea of what might influence a culture to make its choice of structural materials. Climate and other environmental influences were discussed as well.
All this is in preparation for the March Land Experience where the students will begin the week with the fourth and final lesson. They will then proceed through research & development, making a prototype structure and finally creating a scale model to accommodate the tribes population with real-time 6" action figures.
Ideally, the final structures will eventually be implemented on the land as structures over each tribe's camping platform.
This experience is a perfect example of how GMS allows the students to actually apply their knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving skills in the real world.
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2/24/2008
Middle School
Cutting Some Tracks
Middle School students begin recording first song in Performance & Production
Middle School students started recording their first song in February. Each class song begins with recording the drums, bass and one other instrument. The additional instrument is known as a "scratch" track as it only serves as a reference melody for the bass player and drummer. Students will be mixing down the songs in March and then begin mastering each final mix in April.
Each class band is required to write three original songs based on their curriculum. Original creation of songs supports the Middle School's three-year cycle and themed curriculum. This year's theme is Origins.
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