May Newsletter 2025
Dear parents,
Oops I really don’t know what happened to the April Newsletter – it must have gotlost during the Easter break. Sorry!But now to May:In May our main topics will be ‘Parents’ and ‘Insects’.
We shall talk all about what wonderful things parents do for us and why we are sohappy we have them and we shall make lots of lovely insects.Hopefully there will be many more nice warm days so we can go for small walksthrough the forest in search of insects hidden under leaves or between the bark oftrees. Naturally we shall take our insect glasses along so that we can bring back andidentify the more interesting specimens.
Forest day tomorrow!
Now is the time for planting the seeds of summer flowers, so we shall spend moretime in our garden, sowing seeds, watering them and enjoying the good weather.We won’t only be gardening in our little garden, but shall also take out other workingmaterials from the “Montessori room”.
On Monday, May 19th we shall visit our partner school “St. Ursula” in Zehlendorf. Theyare putting on a little show “Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu” and have invited us.We shall have two trainees this month, Noemi a “Schülerpraktikantin” and one of ourformer students and Sander who is learning to become a teacher’s assistant.We shall have a parent evening on Tuesday May 27th at the preschool beginning at8.00p.m.
And last but not least a small reminder, that the preschool will be closed on the 20thof May and for Ascension Day on the 28th of May. School will resume on Monday,June 2nd.Have a happy month and don’t let the May bugs
bite!The Montessori Team
March Newsletter 2025
Dear Parents,
In February the children had fun tracing and cutting out hearts, decorating the preschool and making and sending their Valentines. We then began to decorate our preschool for carnival. I actually always hate taking down the lovely heat decorations after Valentine’s Day, as I think they make the preschool look so lovely, but fortunately carnival is also quite a merry occasion.
The most exciting topic this month will be the carnival party. It will take place on Tuesday, March 4th.During the first part of the day the children will busy themselves with carnival related artwork. Then we shall have music followed by a small snack to strengthen ourselves for the games which will follow. After a breath of fresh air we shall have lunch, circle time and quiet activities.
In March we shall start our plant theme. We shall talk about various spring flowers such as snowdrops, hyacinths and tulips. In the art room the children will have the opportunity to make many beautiful spring flowers by tracing, cutting out and gluing. I am sure you will be able to admire them on the hall wall.
The following week we shall start to get our pre-school green.We shall talk about Shaun the leprechaun who always comes to visit us on St. Patrick’s Day. He likes to play tricks on us and maybe we will catch him this year. If not I’m sure we will find his pot of gold which will either be at the end of a rainbow or hidden under an old oak tree. We shall see what we can find.
On March 17th each year, the Irish and Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by the “wearin’ of the green”.It would be nice if the children could also wear green on Monday 17th.
This holiday commemorates St. Patrick who, legend tells us, went about Ireland as a missionary preaching and using the shamrock as an illustration of the Trinity. St Patrick also was credited for ridding Ireland of snakes. During the week we shall listen to Irish music and make lots of shamrock- and snake art.
On Saturday, March 15th our landlords are throwing a Pot-luck- St Patrick’s Day- Party and have invited us all to join. It will start at 18:00 hours and you are asked to bring a small something delicious to share. I know we were the mainparty guys last year, so let’s turn up in bulk and show the others how to celebrate appropriately yet again. An Irish band has been hired to bring in more joy and merriment – so please come.The cooking project of the month will be shamrock shaped waffles.
After St. Patrick’s Day we shall continue our topic, spring flowers.This month’s field trip will take us to the botanical gardens. A few crocuses are already blooming in my garden and hopefully in two weeks time we can also admire tulips and daffodils everywhere.Details will follow.
We look forward to welcoming Louisa, Carla’s little sister, who will be joining us after Carnival.Let’s hope for many lovely Spring days. Have a happy month!
Your Montessori team