Our Graduates and their families expressed the desire to have an “in person” Graduation Ceremony. So MDS Staff did their best to make it special while following all social and physical distancing guidelines. Congratulations to Sabina Berdan, Henry Champagne, Gus Foley, Olivia Hudgens, Auggie Knott and Andy Rich. We believe that you are joyful learners […]
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How excited we were here at MDS to host a bubble parade! As the families drove through a ton of bubbles, our staff wished a good summer to our dear students and parents and gave them the opportunity to pick up their belongings. And we all came back home with delicious homemade butter cookies!
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Dear MDS community, We write today to affirm MDS’s commitment to the ongoing struggle for social justice with the necessary and specific emphasis on racism, crystalized in the rallying cry Black Lives Matter. As American Montessori Society President Amira Mogaji insists, “Now is the time for us to be intentionally anti-racist, and to denounce and call
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In accordance with Governor Lamont’s executive orders, “Rusty” is wearing a face mask! The mask has been especially designed by one of our Elementary student. We think Rusty looks very stylish!
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Dear MDS Community, MDS is excited to take part in Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra’s Music in the Homes program! ECSO has provided MDS with a direct link playlist on their YouTube channel for the classrooms to enjoy. In addition, once a week during our Zoom community gathering, the Primary and Elementary programs will be joined
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After COVID-19 caused the closing of our campus, we switched our “spring break” from April to March and our MDS staff rolled up their sleeves and spent the week figuring out how to transform Montessori in person to Montessori online. It hasn’t been easy, it isn’t perfect and it continues to be tweaked as experience
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It’s been almost six weeks since we sent our students home and we are now completing the fifth week of our “MDS at Home” distance learning program. We want to say Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! to our teachers, students and families for their work in making this transition. MDS at Home can only
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In accordance with recommendations by public health officials and in alignment with local public schools, MDS is closed until further notice. This is an unprecedented situation and we realize everyone is in unknown territory. Our foremost goal is the health and safety of our community, however, we also want to stay connected to our community.
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Olivia Hudgens, a fifth year student at Montessori Discovery School, took her invention “The Kitty Kleaner” to the Connecticut Invention Convention on May 4, 2019. She just received an invitation to compete at the National Invention Convention in Detroit Michigan at the end of May. She was one of 1,200 students participating in the Connecticut.
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Many thanks to Richard Berdan and Remi Lavergne for leading this year’s MDS Invention Convention. They traveled to MDS every Friday afternoon during the spring for our afterschool IC meetings. The students had a great time coming up with a number of interesting inventions. Our three guest judges arrived on March 29 to choose the
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