| Mary Schmidt's Classroom Newsletter |  |  | | A child explores the trinomial cube |
Welcome to Nokomis Montessori and room 105! My name is Mary Schmidt, I love teaching at Nokomis Montessori. I have my Bachelor Degree from the Univ. of MN, Montessori Certificate from the College of St. Catherine's, and my Master's of Education from Hamline University. In my spare time I love to: read, garden, take long walks, golf, bike ride - anything with family and friends.
My morning class is a combination of pre-school children and kindergartners. Sandy Balfanz is my assistant in the morning. She brings a calm and nurturing way to the children. At noon time the pre-school children go home or to day care. My afternoon session is with kindergartners only. I collaborate with Bao Yang, our ELL teacher. She works with all kindergartners, but primarily with children that have English as a second language.
If you ever have any questions or concerns, please contact me either by phone (651) 293-8857, voice mail 1059, or email: mary.schmidt@spps.org. The best time to call is between 8 - 8:30 a.m., or 3:45 - 4:15 p.m. I will return your message as soon as possible. I am looking forward to a great learning year.
September: we studied a unit on apples and visited the Dodge Nature Center and their apple orchard.
October: Starts out with a field trip to the Gibbs Farm. We will learn about the historical buildings and learn about the animals on the farm.
We will be covering a unit on colors and spiders.
Fall festival will be coming up!!!
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9:30 Individual work time: language, math, geography, writing...
10:45 Stories, songs, and fingerplays
11:20 Pre-k's to lunch, k's have "word work" time.
11:45 Pre-k's to go home, K's to go have lunch
12:30 Recess
12:50 Writing Workshop
1:25 Milk Break
1:35 Reading Workshop
2:05 Prep., a rotation of Specialists:
Phy. Ed., Science, or Technology
2:30 Math
3:10 Story time and wrap up the day.
3:25 Jackets & backpacks
3:30 Dismissal
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