THE WEEKLY REVIEW

Liberty Montessori: The Place for Learning March 2021

8 Chapel Avenue @ Port Liberte, NJ 201-985-8745 Issue 1, Volume 22

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From the Director’s Desk @ 201-985-8745

Welcome to Liberty Montessori’s Weekly Newsletter.

It provides timely information and highlights the learning taking place across

our distinct Montessori classrooms: Dragonflies and Ladybugs, as well as Early

Childhood (PreK 3,4,5): Butterflies.

During March, we continued reviewing the learning that has taken place in our classrooms and focused on …

Ladybugs- Toddlers • Learning the alphabet

• Learning the sounds of the letters

• Pairing letters, and sounds to words

• Color Recognition

• Role Playing

• Counting Numbers

• Learning cough etiquette

• Learning about different shapes

• Learning how to share and using our words when we do not want to do so

Butterfly – Early Childhood • Grace and Courtesy – Sharing

• Practical Life – Dressing skills, and

eating healthy; healthy habits, health

(brushing teeth)

• Sensorial – Reviewed the concept of

shadows using black and white paint

• Culture – The Continents: North

America (along with Mexico and

Canada; Spring: Sea turtles, Frogs and

the differences between oceans,

lakes, and rivers

• Language - Alphabet (phonetics) and

sight reading – Symbols and

Beginning Sounds.

• Math - Real Number Sense

• Care of self and other beings

• Music - Jazz

THE WEEKLY REVIEW MARCH 15-19, 2021.

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can

succeed” -Maria Montessori.

This week, Wednesday, March 17 in conjunction with New Jersey

City University (NJCU), The New Jersey Small Business

Development Centers (NJSBDC) hosted a program to

commemorate Women’s History Month. The program was

entitled A Celebration of Female Resilience.

I was honored to have been asked to participate alongside a

panel of amazing women, including our moderator, Ms. Gail

Marquis, and fellow panelists Ms. Venida Rodman Jenkins, Ms.

Karen McIntyre, and Ms. Soraya Hebron who each support

development, equity and diversity, the NJSBDC and Diversity,

respectively for NJCU. In addition, Mayor Jimmy Davis of

Bayonne, and Sue Henderson, president of NJCU provided

welcoming remarks.

The focus of the panel discussion was on resilience. Given the

challenges we have faced over the last year consequent of COVID,

this a was timely topic.

For my part, I explained that my resilience to keep Liberty

Montessori: The Place for Learning open to children and families

was drawn from my past (strong women who gave me the tool of

tenacity), my present (an amazing team of teachers and aides

who show up each day to care for our children) and by the

future…the endless possibilities offered by children who benefit

from self-esteem, love and early education.

Because it is Women’s History Month, I shall for the moment

focus on all the amazing women who come together in support of

children. Some of you are mothers, daughters, grandmothers,

aunts, and program directors, teachers, assistants, nurses,

doctors and the lists go on, I salute you!

In partnership, Ivonne




Practical Life

Develops gross and fine motor skills. Prepares children for writing and builds independence and responsibility. Supports the development of order and concentration.

This takes place in all classrooms in a developmentally appropriate manner.

Learning to walk, run, and care for self are amazing adventures!

Maria Montessori understood that children have an intense need for independence. This becomes most evident when babies shift from crawling and develop the desire to learn to walk. Usually currently, we find babies seem to lose interest in toys and other learning experiences, instead focusing on moving as much as possible. They are exploring their world. Practical life activities encourage independence.

Pretend Play: Taking care of a baby. Learning to stand.

Doing the button and zipper frames. Building a tower using blocks and Legos.




Revising the concepts of night, day and shadows.

Practical Life

Learning to stand and crawl

Learning all about daylight savings time.

Cleaning up the toys.




Practical Life

Putting pepperoni on the pizza. Rolling up the rug.

Our children learn the importance of self-sufficiency but more than that they learn

the importance of helping others.

Arranging cots for nap time.




We are using our senses to explore our world and making connections...

…hand & eye coordination are practiced with music, matching games and

block work helps us develop language, math, and critical thinking skills.

Sensorial News

Learning to zip a purse.

Learning different colors.

Recognizing the different shapes and colors.

Touching objects with rough and smooth surfaces.




Sensorial News

Drawing lines and shapes using the colors they picked. Counting numbers using poms.

Handwriting practice with shaving cream supports language and sensorial. Children are learning about continents, oceans, rivers,

lakes while “playing” with continent animals.




Children are read to in every

class and every day.

Language News

Categorizing the object based on the first letter of its name. name.

Learning the words that start with letter R.

Putting the object in the tray. Making a tower using the blocks.

Learning the words that start with R.




Amelia - The turtle is slow, and the train is fast. Also, they are green and pink.

Choosing objects that start with letter S.

Robert - The elephant is big, and the ant is small. The door is open and the other is closed.

Enzo - Sea turtles are small, and whales are big, which are opposites.

Charlie - Big lion has cubs, which are opposites.

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