Welcome P4 families to our P4 blog. We are off to a good start to our new school year as our students are acclimating beautifully to classroom processes and procedures and starting to build friendships in the classroom. The primary drive of a Montessori education is to foster a sense of order, concentration and coordination so that each student can develop and grow their sense of independence.
The classroom is organized according to academic areas. A few areas are shown below.
Language 
Math area 
Art area
This is our “Sensorial” area, the area that explores the five senses.
We place a lot of emphasis on our students walking in with their blue bags, water bottles and lunch boxes so that they learn that those are their things that they are responsible for and they get in the habit of placing those items in their proper place in the classroom.
Please spend a few minutes showing your child the proper way of washing their hands. We are teaching them here at school, but with a little more practice at home this will help us expedite the process in the classroom. Thank you!
Students are exploring different areas of the classroom. Each “work” has its own tray and proper place on a shelf in the classroom. Students very quickly can see the pattern and with some mild prompting (from their peers), children lean to return the work to its proper place!
Please help your child be successful in choosing a morning and afternoon snack by providing reusable containers with labeling such as “morning snack” and then a separate container labeled with “afternoon snack.” Ideally, these snack items could be carried in their lunch box. If you need a separate snack holder, please be sure it it clearly labeled. Thanks.
Finally, please be sure that all of your child’s clothes and masks are labeled with their names, it is most helpful!