School Blog

Take a behind-the-scenes look at a typical day in our classrooms, where curiosity and creativity flourish in a supportive, structured environment.

making Christmas cards to sell for the Extended Day Stall

Making Christmas Cards The children in both the Brolgas and Rosella classroom excitedly made Christmas cards to sell. The children were involved in tracing the shapes, cutting them out, and folding the cards. Don’t forget to bring your money on the 27th…

christmas stall

Extended Day Christmas Stall Starting on Wednesday 27th November and until sold out the Extended Day children will be selling Christmas products that have been made by all of the children of Hills Montessori. There will be hand made paper…

Kookaburra Class

News from Kookaburra Class Wow we are already half way through term 4 and this term we have welcomed Sarah Joung and her family back to Hills. Sarah has settled in very well to the program and has had some…

Thank You!!

World Teacher’s Day A huge thank you to all of the parents who provided a wonderfully delicious lunch for all of the teachers last Friday. It was fabulous to try some new exotic dishes such as lamb and lentil rissoles,…

Brolgas term 4

Term 4 Welcome back everyone and especially to our new children and families starting this term. The new children- Elodyn, Alisha and Katrina have settled beautifully into the program and quickly learning the routines of the program.                     …

Thank You Linda

Blog Training A great big thank you to Linda who generously gave up her time this afternoon to help train the staff in IT. Hopefully we will be able to post our own blogs and do updates when needed. 

Becoming scientists…

When Dr. Maria Montessori designed the children’s environment she wanted to offer the children the “keys to the world”… offering them a key to the greater world outside the walls of our classrooms as well as the ‘keys’ to the…

Chubby Little Snowman

Group time: Our favourite song in the Kookaburra class at the moment is called “Chubby Little Snowman” here are the words so you can sing along with your children. “Chubby Little Snowman” Chubby little snowman, had a carrot nose Along…

More Dinosaurs

Programming of activities in Home Environment is based on the children’s interests. As last week’s dinosaurs were so popular, we continued the dinosaur theme for another week. Creating dinosaurs from play dough continued to extend the children’s imagination and the…

Paintings

Last week, some of the Home Environment children told Narelle and I that painting is their favourite activity. So this week, we brought out the paints, paper, smocks, brushes and other painting mediums and watched as the children stretched their…