Ghent Montessori School

Happy Juneteenth from GMS! ❤️💚🖤

Congratulations to our amazing middle school GRADUATES! 🎊🎓

What a gift this week has been! We can’t even begin to express our gratitude. Our teachers and staff feel incredibly appreciated and are overwhelmed with our community’s kindness. THANK YOU to our GMS families for going out of your way to love on us! You are WHY we do what we do. And a special thank you to MaryBeth Hamel-Yeager for curating new surprises every day this week… including a sushi lunch, breakfast, a kombucha/coffee bar, a house plant selection, custom glasses, and pastries. Pouring out into these children is the real joy and privilege at the end of the day. 🩵📚✏️👩‍🏫✨

Our annual art show is always a memorable highlight of our school year! Thank you to everyone who makes the event so special.

And a huge shout out to Renea, our amazing art teacher. You are a gift to the GMS community and we love you. 31 years at GMS!!!!

Our Children’s House kindergarteners enjoyed a trip to fire station #1 yesterday!

A little look at what we've been up to here at GMS:
After School Enrichment! These classes bring so much color to our students' days. From karate to photography to learning how to program robots, our ASE programs foster a wide array of unique skills and interests.
Field trips, field trips, field trips! Elementary hit Fort Monroe and Latitude Climbing Gym this week.

Spring and the children's love for learning is in full bloom. 🪻🌷🌸

January was marked with many highlights for GMS. Apart from daily, diligent work cycles, our students got to
- Show some of the most special people in their life what they love to do in the classroom at our annual Parent-Child night
- Cook delicious mushroom stroganoff and string beans for their classmates
- Try a new skill in After School Enrichment classes (in this album, you can see some pics from Karate and Photography!),
- Pick out a classroom pet at the pet store.... and even got to hold something that slithered!

Pajama day, hot cocoa for all, Upper El campus clean up, and a trip to the Food Bank to drop off the money we raised from the Craft and Bake Sale! We love how this time of year highlights such joy and generosity.
Happy Holidays to you and yours from GMS! ✨

There was an over-abundance of excitement today over the Craft and Bake Sale!
This tradition goes way back and is one the children love. We love spreading joy this time of the year, but this tradition also gives the opportunity for so many wonderful lessons.
Children in elementary and middle school had the opportunity to do handwork, which Montessori schools value. We also put our money lessons to good use. Beginning money lessons, making change, profit margins, counting large amounts of money are just the beginning. It also provides us the opportunity to practice Grace and Courtesy lessons, in this case manners, “our please and thank you’s!”
Thank you to all who helped in so many ways. We had an abundance of baked goods and crafts that were made at home and thank you for donating to our local food bank by sending money in with your children. We can’t wait to see how much we made!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 🧡🤎🧡
Today was filled with joy and laughter as we gathered for our All-School Thanksgiving Feast.
Our Children’s House classes recited poems and sang songs, and our Lower Elementary classes honored our Native Americans with blessings of thanks. Our Upper Elementary did a skit that told the historical story of Tisquantum, and our Middle School students wrote what they are thankful for in their lives. They also ended with a land acknowledgement for our school that was researched and written a few years ago.
Thank you to our families who donated food (amazing fruit kebab turkey pictured below) and made this special tradition possible once again!

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”
Maria Montessori

Enjoy this week's compilation which beautifully captures the joy and brilliance of Montessori learning...✨