Last month the Brookeside Montessori Home and School Association held their annual walk-a-thon fundraiser. It was a great success! The students raised just over $1,000. Some of the money will be used to purchase new cabinets for an art room makeover.
Recently Rachel Yoder visited Brookeside Montessori School. Mrs. Yoder is a Pennsylvania Dutch author, illustrator, and folk artist. She shared her books, Penny Olive and Davey Applebutter. The stories celebrate the art and food of this culture and are also written in the Pennsylvania Dutch language.
Brookeside Montessori Home and School Association proudly announce that our school float won second place ($60.00) in its division at the Bally Halloween Parade! Students expressed themselves using the theme: 'Brookeside Montessori School--OF FISH!" We decorated, wore or waved our fish while wishing everyone in Bally a hearty "Happy Halloween!"
One lesson focused on wind where the students learned how an anemometer is an instrument that measures the speed the wind. The students did an experiment to see how many puffs it took them to blow a cotton ball from one line to the next. They had to make a hypothesis before the experiment began. [...]
The PreKindergarten class has been learning about apples during the month of September. They learned about the life cycle of an apple, the different kinds of apples. They also visited Frecon Orchard to learn more about apple trees and to pick apples.
