Firefighters to the Rescue!
Brookeside Montessori Primary Students are pictured here with the team of firefighters from Eastern Berks Fire and Rescue 97! These brave and helpful community servants visited our school for Fire Prevention month.
Distance Learning Program – Photos of Students’ Work
Families have been sharing photos of the work children are doing through our distance learning program. Each week classroom teachers are providing learning resources, Montessori inspired activities and traditional homework assignments. Throughout the day our classroom teachers are scheduling one on one time with students and lessons are given to small groups of students.
Thanksgiving Feasts 2019
We're celebrating the holiday in our classrooms! The week before Thanksgiving each class held a feast. This annual tradition features students dressed in costumes, sharing songs and poems, and of course delicious food. Teachers and parents combined their skills to create a beautiful and meal.
STEM Apple Trees
During STEM classes this week the students built apple trees. The were focused and problem solved a way to balance their "apple" pom poms. Teachers enjoyed watching their responses when they were successful. There is joy in learning!
An Antarctic Adventure with Brookeside Summer Camp
On Monday we started our study off with Antarctica booklets, Antarctica animals and Antarctica inspired art. We read wonderful books and listened to tranquil sounds of Antarctica. Friday we created gorgeous polar bear wet on wet watercolor portraits using a crayon resist technique and Epsom salt. Referred to as Aurora Antarctica, the southern lights, or aurora australis can best be seen from the most southern of landmasses.