Successful Raffles Help Our Programs
Successful raffles for Mardi Gras and after included a $500 grand prize and two family passes to the Appaloosa Music Fest. The raffles were successful fundraisers.
Our Final Day of Class
Today was our final day of classes in 2021 in our Montessori children’s house. This children worked — and sung! — beautifully, but it’s always bittersweet.
A Hopeful New Year!
Our new school year started on time in mid-September, with eleven children (soon to be twelve) in the Children’s House. But it was a daddy long legs that stole the show early.
End of an Amazing Year
This is the end of an amazing year for Hilltop Children’s House. We bought a building, fixed it up a little, acquired just enough materials to open our doors in mid-October, and found some amazing help. I’d like to share with you a letter we sent to a bunch of Steubenville-area businesses a couple of…
Happening in the House
We’ve collected a few videos and pictures lately of things that happen in a typical day at Hilltop Children’s House Sorting pompoms by color, transferring buttons from one bowl to another, matching noise cylinders by sound, setting up a prayer table for Advent… all typical occurrences here at Hilltop Children’s House. There are still so…
Learning According to Development
If you’ve not read it yet I highly highly recommend P.E. Gobry’s article on Montessori. Gobry asks, “Montessori schools are exceptionally successful, so why aren’t there more of them?” Indeed. One of my favorite things that he points out is the dedication to respecting the child’s own development that is inherent in Montessori. He writes:…
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
In addition to a Montessori academic program, Hilltop Children’s House will also offer the Montessori based religious instruction in scripture and liturgy called Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS). In CGS children are given a place where they can fall in love with God. The Catechist does not act as an instructor, but rather as…
The Five Ways
“The otherworldly quiet. This is how you recognize a true Montessori preschool. For over a century now, it is usually the thing that strikes people first, and anybody who knows what children ages 3 to 6 are usually like can see why. In a school where the Montessori Method is faithfully applied, the decibel levels…
Blueprints Mocking Up
We’re in the next phase of things for the Hilltop Children’s House, getting to know people here in our neighborhood and planning for the building. The architect who is working with us, Faniro Architects, Inc., out of Youngstown, Ohio, sent us the drawings of the current floor plan for us to mark up and work…