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Primary Artists

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. ~ Maria Montessori PRIMARY ART Our Passionate Primary Artists created chalk drawings soaking up inspiration under…

mreuterJune 4, 2021

Elementary

UE Sings Tales & Tunes

Upper Elementary students recorded a staged reading of their musical, "Tales & Tunes from Mt. Olympus". It is a Princeton Montessori school tradition for the Upper Elementary students to perform a musical each spring. In…

mreuterMay 25, 2021

Elementary

UE Electronic Field Trip

Upper Elementary students participated in Electronic Field Trip through the Liberty Science Center to learn about the basics of 3D design through the modeling software Tinkercad. The students were introduced to the method of constructing…

mreuterMay 13, 2021

Elementary

The Chicks Have Hatched!

May 10th was a VERY exciting day in Lower Elementary. The students witnessed our chicks beginning to hatch. The classroom had a video of the incubator broadcasting on the TV so that the children could…

mreuterMay 12, 2021

Art Elementary Middle School

Middle School IB Art Project

“The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.” ~ Maria Montessori Middle School…

mreuterMay 11, 2021

Elementary Middle School

Farm to School Update

The Princeton Montessori Farm to School program connects students to the land, helps them learn about where food comes from and gain awareness of healthier food choices, and encourages them to become stewards of their…

mreuterMay 6, 2021

Elementary

5th Grade Virtual Field Trip

The 5th grade Upper Elementary students took a virtual field trip to Monticello, the plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson. This was a culmination of their study of the Civil War through the lens of the…

mreuterMay 4, 2021

Elementary

5th Graders are Young Activists

caring • community • action In Social Studies, the 5th-grade students are completing their Young Activist unit which focuses on the connections between caring, community, and action. They spent weeks researching a young activist who…

mreuterApril 15, 2021

Elementary

The Value of Mistakes in Mathematics

The Value of Mistakes in Mathematics by Aish Saminathan, Lower Elementary Teacher A day before the winter break years ago, during my internship period as a Montessori teacher, a third-grader came up to me to…

mreuterApril 13, 2021

Art Elementary Middle School

Meet Barbara McElheny ~ Art

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself. ~ Maria Montessori We are pleased to share that we have secured a permanent art teacher for the remainder of this year. Barbara McElheny will begin on…

mreuterMarch 30, 2021