
Caitlin Bowring
- May 15, 2019
Kittens & Community: A 6th Grade Service Day
The 6th grade year at NMS is full of opportunities for leadership, personal growth, and collaboration. While continuing with the academically rigorous Montessori curriculum, our 6th grade students also take on a yearlong independent research project and work together to fundraise and plan for an overnight field trip—two monumental tasks! This year, in recognizing our school’s commitment to community, the 6th years also decided to take on the task of planning a day of communit

Elyse Kalins, Beginners Teacher
- May 10, 2019
Health and Wellness Lessons in the Beginners Bathroom
Recently all faculty and staff attended a professional development session with certified human sexuality educator of 30 years, Deborah Roffman. We discussed the spiral curriculum that takes place over many years, and how it begins with our youngest students as they start to learn about their own bodies. Elyse was inspired to reflect on one lesson she’s encountered in the Beginners bathroom of interest to teachers, parents, and caregivers alike: how the language we use begins

Krissy Canastar
- May 3, 2019
An Ode to Drama Tech
Drama Club is six weeks away from our performance of Oklahoma! With only an hour each week to rehearse for a full musical, write bios’s and program information, organize costumes, design and paint sets, make and organize props, and write sound and mic cues, the last weeks leading up to a show can be really stressful. All of this in addition to our other responsibilities at school... #wearesotired. In about a week or so from now come the pre-show dreams. What did we forget? Wh
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