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
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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, [...]
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, [...]
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Primary Classes Celebrate Hispanic Heritage /
Las Clases Primarias Celebran Herencia Hispania
by Karalyn Colopy
Developing cultural awareness fosters pride in one’s own culture and a respect and appreciation for the [...]
While many children can effortlessly count from 1 to 10, they don’t necessarily know what the numbers represent – in terms of their quantities – and don’t necessarily connect the number names with the number symbols.
At the September 8 PTA meeting, Carolina Musawwir, Parent Involvement Chair, shared this hands-on Montessori-style activity for parents to try [...]
Do you have a lot of junky toys at your house, too? Small animals, plastic figurines, stuff that seems to appear all over the house?
At the November 10 PTA meeting, Carolina Musawwir, Parent Involvement Chair, shared this hands-on Montessori reading activity that may give you a new appreciation for those things. All you need besides [...]
On Wednesday, October 8, all of the Lower Elementary classes – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders – are going to the Greensboro Children’s Museum.
This is a very exciting opportunity. At $20 per student, it’s an expensive trip, but an investment that should be worth every penny. Why?
Kids will travel outside of Durham and expand [...]
Cheerios, Chex, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Juicy Juice, Nature Valley, Cascadian Farms, Yoplait, Hefty, Ziploc, Kleenex, Huggies… Do any of these brands come home in your shopping bag? If so, keep reading!
George Watts participates in Box Tops for Education. When you bring in box tops from eligible products, our school earns 10 cents for each one. [...]
If you ever had trouble understanding abstract concepts like solstices and equinoxes, maybe it’s because your teacher wasn’t a rapper.
Check out “Montessori: The Rap!”
As Donna Rewalt highlighted at the September 8 PTA meeting, Durham has a Montessori middle school in the works. Durham County and the Durham School Board both approved a plan to buy the Lakewood YMCA, located at 2119 Chapel Hill Road, and convert part of it into a 300-student Montessori middle school to open in [...]
