Books from Young Authors Fair

Books from our Young Authors Fair are now on display at the Atascadero Library through the month May. Be sure to check it out!


(picture coming soon, hopefully)

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Secret Farm

While cleaning up the school on Spring Cleaning Day, we found this little farm in the bushes in front of the school.

little plastic animal farm scene

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Kindergartners Celebrate 100 Days of School

100 days of school
On the 100th day of school, each student brings in 100 of something...
100 corks
100 legos
100 M&Ms
100 pennies
100 stickers
100 Cheerios
100 rose petals
100 rocks
100 dimes

They had 100 items for snack, they worked on dot-to-dots that go to 100, and they read a book called “100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days”!

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Valentine's Day and High Tea

This week, we celebrated Valentine’s Day at Children’s House.

On Tuesday, the upper elementary students served herbal tea, baked goods and fruit to the primary children...
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...and today, children in the early elementary were served by parent volunteers for the annual High Tea.
A grand time was had by all!
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One more thing...a strange phenomenon occurred over the weekend.
Korey and some of the teachers have been glazing ceramic pieces for the auction, with the children. Last Friday, Jennifer Wills covered up the palette of glazes they were using in her classroom so they would be fresh for use on Tuesday, when we all returned to school. When she came in on Valentine’s Day, the red glaze had dried as you see below...
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Reinventing Education

I think it is safe to say, the public education system in our country is in trouble. As supporters of the Montessori philosophy, we often think to ourselves, “...if only someone would look to Montessori for answers.” In his article, What’s Involved in Reinventing Education?, Steve Denning, contributing editor at Forbes, does just that. He gives succinct explanations (including circular flow charts) why our traditional methods are not working and gives detailed steps needed for changing the system. We highly recommend this article for parents, staff and anyone concerned about education. The last two sentences of this article only help to reinforce what we do at Children’s House. ~Dana

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