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Thirteen days remaining, Villa di Maria!
The VdM SUMMER READING CHALLENGE is calling your names!
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Meet Mr. Justin Shepard
Mr. Justin Shepard joins the Villa di Maria staff as our new Upper Elementary Assistant as our previous UE Assistant, Mrs. Melissa Anderson, is transitioning to the Montessori Adolescent Program this fall!
Justin and UE Directress, Mrs. Rebecca Callander, will team up with our crew of 9-to-12-year-olds for what will surely be one stellar school year! CHEERS TO THAT!
MOUNDS to Experience!
One last enthralling, educational adventure for the summer!
What do you say?
Are you up for it?
Give your children a chance to imagine what it would have been like to live here a thousand years ago!
A Cahokia Mounds share from LE Directress, Mrs. Anna Schwind
Read MoreMeet Ms. Jessie Braud
Drum roll, please...
Introducing.
Our new Primary Directress.
Who will be leading the charges in the Primary 2 Children's House,
With much enthusiasm and many smiles.
The one.
The only.
Msssssss. Jessssiiiiieeeee Brauuuuuuuddd!
(And, yes. Please picture this announcement made with megaphone in hand and a cheering VdM crowd in the midst.)
Going for Distance!
Can we make it to 500 meters by August 15th?
750 meters, perhaps?
A BOLD 1,000 meters?
Meet Mrs. Melinda Smith
With two fantastically full Lower Elementary classrooms for the 2016-2017 school year, Mrs. Anna Schwind and Mrs. Melinda Smith will lead one classroom while Mrs. Megan Eilers and Mrs. Sophie Andre will lead the other.
As our community is well aware, Mrs. Smith is not new to Villa di Maria- her two sons attend VdM, and she also co-chaired our Parent Organization last year. She IS, however, new to the position of Assistant and most certainly deserves a formal introduction. Enjoy!
Read MoreTHIRTY-FOUR METERS!
Accumulating our book meters, we are!
Keep 'em coming, VdM!
Read MoreVdM's Summer Reading Challenge!
Mrs. Schwind is throwing down the gauntlet! Ready to rise to the reading challenge, VdM students? Here's everything you need to know...
Read MoreExtra! Extra!
We're getting down to "Business"!
Read MoreWorking the Bi-s and Tri-s
The Montessori students begin working their "bi-s and tri-s" in the Children's House and continue into the Upper Elementary. Yet another example of the genius of Maria Montessori!
Read MoreAva
Almost eleven years later...
Read MoreBella
This makes nine-tenths!
Read MoreWhy Write?
“My overarching research focuses on how learning and interacting with the world with our hands has a really significant effect on our cognition,” Dr. James said, “on how writing by hand changes brain function and can change brain development.”
Read MoreA Queen and Two Pirates-
The Thrall family update!
Read MoreHow's Your Summer So Far?
Villa di Maria Families,
As you've transitioned into your summer schedules, summer camps, summer vacations, summer reading, summer swimming, summer sleeping and summer FUN, WE MISS YOU! IMMENSELY!
Read MoreNeel
Filling my toolbox...construct anything I want to...learned to build...learned the tool of exactitude...fueled my passion for architecture...unveiled my art and math skills...
Read MoreEnzo
Enzo.
In 3 images.
Read MoreHow Brains are Built
Building solid brain architecture
Read MoreJackson
Ready to fly!
Read MoreNoah
Keep an open mind in the present and have fun in life...
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