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Mrs. Danielle (Dani) Cavalari started working at Villa di Maria last school year in our late stay program and was beloved by all! She will thankfully be continuing on this coming school year as our Late Stay Lead as well as our afternoon floater. A big ol' YAHOO to that, Villa di Maria!
Let us formally introduce you-
Read MoreThirteen days remaining, Villa di Maria!
The VdM SUMMER READING CHALLENGE is calling your names!
Read MoreMr. 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!
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 MoreDrum 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.)
Can we make it to 500 meters by August 15th?
750 meters, perhaps?
A BOLD 1,000 meters?
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 MoreAccumulating our book meters, we are!
Keep 'em coming, VdM!
Read MoreMrs. Schwind is throwing down the gauntlet! Ready to rise to the reading challenge, VdM students? Here's everything you need to know...
Read MoreWe're getting down to "Business"!
Read MoreThe 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 MoreAlmost eleven years later...
Read MoreThis makes nine-tenths!
Read More“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 MoreThe Thrall family update!
Read MoreVilla 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 MoreFilling 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.
In 3 images.
Read MoreBuilding solid brain architecture
Read MoreReady to fly!
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