Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School: Live On Air!

Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School: Live On Air!

Farm School Director, Susan Holmes, and 2 Mountain Laurel Montessori students were interviewed live last week on the Valley Today Show, The River 95.3.

You will find the link to listen to the show here:

http://royalbroadcasting.net/Podcasts/Valley%20Today/20110120VT.mp3

Thanks so much to Lonnie Hill and Mario Retrosi for inviting us on the show!

MLK Jr. Day 2011:"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve"

Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School students and faculty honored the 25th anniversary of the Federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by helping in their community.  They visited senior citizens in two Front Royal nursing homes.  Together, the adolescents and seniors made collages, played games, and spent time telling stories about their lives.  We hope to make this a regular event throughout the year.


"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love". 
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


For more information on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and community service, visit the Corporation for National and Community Service: http://mlkday.gov/

Coffeehouse Showcases Talents of all Students

 Our first Coffeehouse of the year was a great success!  Students performed a wide variety of music, and were joined by teachers, Farm School alumnae, and even a Mountain Laurel Montessori School Board member.

Coffeehouses are a creative collaboration resulting from the Creative Expression curriculum.  

Sisters

Student stage managers

Farm School alumnae

We All Pitch In To Make the Playground Safer

Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School students joined in with parents and teachers this fall to make the playground safer for our youngest students. Together we moved and spread 9,000 pounds of rubber mulch to our playground at the Front Royal campus. Our Toddler (ages 16 months to 3 years) and Primary (ages 3-6) students use the playground every day and will be much happier now.

 It was wonderful to see the faces of our youngest students watching with fascination as the "big kids" worked, and to have an opportunity for our adolescent students to give back to the campus that nurtured them from the time they were toddlers and on through elementary.

One of the unique aspects of Mountain Laurel Montessori is the strong community that nurtures children through the whole continuum of childhood, from birth through 9th grade.