George Watts has been selected by NC Beautiful to receive an environmental education grant! The award is part of NC Beautiful’s Windows of Opportunity Grant Program, which rewards North Carolina teachers for their creativity and their dedication to perpetuating the natural beauty of the state through creative education projects.
The $1,000 grant will go toward expanding [...]
“A Day On, Not a Day Off”
Martin Luther King, Jr Day – Monday, January 18 – was a gorgeous, sunny day, just warm enough for t-shirts if you were working hard!
It was a day off from school, but for the students of the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM), it was definitely “a [...]
Watts Happenings, Fall 2009, the PTA newsletter, is here! Learn what the kids are doing, what are the teachers doing, what the PTA is doing, and what YOU can do, too!
Contents:
Parents Help Make Hispanic Heritage Month a Huge Success!
Recipes for Tlacoyos and other Mexican dishes
Just a Few Examples of Classroom Activities for Hispanic Heritage Month
Welcome [...]
Just in time for National Ride Your Bike to Work Week (May 11-15)…
George Watts now has three bike racks available for students to use if they would like to ride their bikes to school!
Two racks are near the main entrance, and one is next to the carpool lane on Urban Ave. If your child rides [...]
Do you like gardening — or wish you had a garden?
Do your kids like playing in the dirt?
Do you like getting locally grown vegetables and fruit at the Farmers Market?
Would you like your kids to be eating more healthful veggies?
Would you like to be part of the next big improvement for the school grounds?
If [...]
Watts Happenings, Spring 2009, the PTA newsletter, is here! Learn what the kids are doing, what are the teachers doing, what the PTA is doing, and what YOU can do, too!
Contents:
Class Celebrates the Holidays by Giving
New Arts Committee to Enhance Student Life
Music: An Essential Part of Education
Meet Mr. Keeler!
Life After Watts: Montessori Middle School
Peaceful Children, [...]
Students sketching out ideas
Small group work
Field trip!
About 50 people gathered at the school on Saturday, January 24, to work on designs for a future “Edible Garden” on the George Watts campus.
The idea of the edible garden uses the space around the campus for planting gardens. The gardens provide food and tremendous learning opportunities for all [...]
An “Edible Garden” is an outdoor learning environment, where kids grow vegetables, herbs, and other foods on the school grounds. (See below for more about the cool things and ways kids can learn through gardening.) Right here at George Watts, we can have working gardens! One of the first steps is to explore some possibilities, [...]
On Wednesday, November 13, the PTA Grounds Committee sponsored a fun school-wide event:
AZALEA PLANTING DAY!
Students from all classes were invited to plant almost 80 azaleas – in the front of school, by the car-pool lane, and in the back of school, too. These azaleas were given to our school as a grant through [...]
Congratulations, George Watts Montessori – you have just won 87 beautiful azalea bushes!
And thanks to the Grounds Committee for taking the initiative earlier this fall to write and submit a grant proposal to NC Beautiful on behalf of our school. This week, we learned that George Watts Montessori was one of the winners! Our request [...]
