We hope you had a wonderful Easter vacation and have returned well rested.
March our super busy month with Baba Marta, Chinese New Year, International Book Day and St. Patrick’s Day seems so far away again as the last days of the month were so dominated with Easter preparations. The children made Easter baskets, decorated eggs and traced and cut out paper eggs.
The Easter-egg-hunt was the grand finale.
Now for April:
Flowers are beginning to bloom, buds are opening, leaves are appearing and fruit trees are coming into blossom. We simply must continue our plant theme. We shall talk about various kinds of plants, the different parts of a plant, what plants need for growth, etc.
In our little green house the children can sow seeds and hopefully we will be able to plant the seedlings in the garden a few weeks later. In keeping with this month’s theme we shall visit the botanical gardens on Thursday, April 23rd . We shall leave the preschool at 9:00 o’clock.
Conor, one of our former students, will be doing a two week practical working experience at the preschool (Schüler Praktikum).
And now last but not least THANK YOU all so much for the fantastic cook book, candles and voucher for my birthday. The children drew me beautiful pictures, which are still adorning my desk - birthday table – at home. I was truly spoilt this year.
We wish you all a wonderful April!
Your Montessori team
Dear Parents,
In the short month of February lots of children were missing due to illness and holidays and our group shrunk to eleven children. We are happy to see the absentees slowly but surely returning, some still a little pale but all excited to be back again.
In February the children had fun making and sending their Valentines which unfortunately didn’t all arrive. As one family mentioned the cards the children made this year were too heavy and therefore required more stamps. I’m so sorry. I never thought that the children would load the cards with soooo much love.
Now to March:
March 1st is a very special day in Bulgaria and Baba Marta (Granny March), a mythical figure, brings with her the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the spring. The children made Martenitsi which are red and white interwoven strings which symbolise health and happiness (bracelets) which they give their friends or hang on the first signs of spring they can see. Unfortunately we forgot to take them along today on our forest trip.
Chinese (Luna) New Year came to an end on March 3rd. We celebrated it by dancing a dragon dance and lighting smoke bombs.
Karin (Tilda’s Mum) kindly brought our attention to “World Book Day” celebrated on March 5th . We would like to ask you to let the children bring in not only their show-and-tell-toy on Friday, but also their favourite book. In a special cosy place we will then read books to whoever would like to participate.
We have started our plant theme beginning with snowdrops and crocuses which you can admire in the hall way. In March we have so many topics that we shall regularly have to interrupt the theme, like on March 17th.
On March 17th each year, the Irish and Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by the “wearin’ of the green” and the Irish in New York City hold a huge parade. We shall make lots of shamrock art for the school and it would be nice if the children could wear green on Tuesday the 17th.
The 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 was also credited with ridding Ireland of snakes.
During the week we shall listen to Irish music, dance to it and on the 17th we will go in search of the pot of gold that Shaun the leprechaun will surely have hidden under an old oak tree.
Dominique (Rayén’s Mum) has offered to come to preschool and teach the children a line dance.
On Saturday, March 21st 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. Maybe the children can perform what they have learnt there.
The cooking project at preschool this month will be the making of shamrock shaped waffles.
Let’s hope for many lovely spring days. Have a happy month!
Your Montessori team
Dear Parents,
Our snow theme (unfortunately not weather) is slowly coming to an end. The children have spent a lot of time cutting out snowflakes, making penguins and polar bears and learning about the creatures that live in the Arctic regions.
Due to the wonderful winter’s snow we were able to go sledding down the not too steep hills in the forest as our monthly fieldtrip.
In February we have three major topics: Valentine’s Day (14th), ‘Fasching’ (Carnival) and Chinese New Year (17th Feb - 3rd March ).
The ‘Faschings-party’ will take place on Tuesday, February 17th.
The previous parties (Christmas and Halloween) in the large community hall have been with sibling and parent participation. The “Fasching party” is normally celebrated on a smaller scale and only in the Montessori rooms without families.
We are looking forward to wonderfully dressed up children, but it is requested that there be no weapons and no complete face masks please.
On the following Tuesday we shall make the traditional Shrove Tuesday pancakes for our cooking project.
February is also the month of hearts. We will trace out hearts, decorate hearts, make heart people, heart mobiles, make ‘window-colour’ hearts and talk about Valentine’s Day.
From February 18th on we shall introduce the traditions of the Chinese New Year, practice using chop sticks and dance a dragon dance.
The dentist is coming on Friday, February 6th.
We wish you all a hearty and healthy February
Your Montessori team
Newsletter January 2026
We wish you a happy and healthy new year and hope you had an enjoyableholiday season.
January is the cosy month. The Christmas excitement is over, but there is lots of“telling“ to do. Everyone is anxious to share their holiday experiences as well asshow the presents they have received. „Talk time“ becomes extended.By now the children are so much at home in the classroom that they are wellable to work independently for longer periods of time, giving the teachers theopportunity to work with individuals on a 1 to 1 basis. Lots of developmenttakes place and the teachers also have time to observe more and take each child„one step further“ as necessary.
The „Winter“ theme dominates January. Cutting out paper snowflakes todecorate the windows can give the children valuable cutting practice. Snowmenfigure largely in art activities, as does white paint in all art work.The weather forecast predicts snow for Thursday, Friday and Saturday so ourtopic will be really up to date!
Another larger theme we shall be starting this month is about the life the Inuitlead. We shall talk about their clothing, housing and food. Fish, seals, polarbears, penguins and whales will also be part of our work and play.
Our field trip on Monday January 12th will be to go tobogganing at the Fischtal -should we still have snow. If your child owns a sled/toboggan please bring it inon that Monday. Please do not buy one just because of the fieldtrip as we shalldefinitely have enough.
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Liam will be starting at the preschool this month and we wish him a great startand a happy and exciting time with us.
Happy January!
Your Montessori team