Cathedral Montessori School

☀️ Take story time outside! Draw the characters or settings from your child's favorite book in sidewalk chalk, then retell the story together. It builds comprehension, creativity, and imagination — and it washes right off. Double win. 🎨📚

📚 Did you know that the New Orleans Public Libraries host a Summer Reading Program with prizes?! Libraries across the country host summer reading programs to encourage reading as a lifelong habit, maintain reading skills that children and teens have achieved throughout the school year, and increase interest in libraries. Also, it’s just plain fun! Click the link to learn more and check out all the summer events. https://nolalibrary.org/in-the-library/summer-fun/

Our campers are having a fabulous summer on the bayou!

On the last day of school ,our Willow Class unearthed the mummy apples the created earlier in the school year during their Egyptian studies.

"Oh! The Places You Will Go!"
Congratulations to CMS Alum, Ben Grass! Ben is a 2026 graduate from De La Salle High School and will be attending LSU in the Fall.

Celebrating a wonderful school year with pizza, snoballs, and outside play!

❤Celebrating our founder, Billie Andersson!
Thank you, Billie, for creating this beautiful school steeped in Montessori philosophy. Under your guidance, we have had the opportunity to teach the core principles of Montessori education to hundreds of children in the New Orleans area: respect for the child, nurturing self-education, understanding the absorbent mind, respect for sensitive periods of learning, and creating a prepared environment. Under your stewardship, we have grown from a single-room schoolhouse to a beautiful PreK - 6th grade school providing an enriching and challenging educational environment that enables each child to realize their highest potential while developing a love of learning and a respect for self, others, and the global community.

Celebrating sunny days in the garden! Mr. Nolan gives our Magnolia students (1st through 3rd grades) lessons on caring for the garden.

Professor Audrey van der Meer from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology led a 20-year study to show that the act of writing by hand rather than typing increases learning and memory. This is further proof of the effectiveness of the curriculum developed by Maria Montessori over a century ago.

"The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence," - "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, 1949

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/handwriting-shows-unexpected-benefits-over-typing/