St. Luke's beautiful gardens are used by RHM for special occasions.
Some of the children enjoying the playground.
 
Children make a food chain delivering food items to Harbor Regional for Thanksgiving baskets.
 
 

Gerber Ambulance and Paramedics. As part of community service month,

we have an annual visit from the Fire Department and ambulatory services.

 
 
 
Tanaka Farms Field trip - picking fresh strawberries.

 

Kalina (age 4) shows off her penmanship name tracing skills!
Luke (age 3) is concentrating on his math exercise which is promoting his eye/hand co-ordination, fine motor skills, mathematical awareness, and concentration span.
Violin Extra Curricular Class taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 
 
 
Issei celebrates his birthday with the traditional Montessori Birthday Celebration Ceremony.
'HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS'

Some of our RHM children showing off their work for charity. The children made the same hats for distribution to a local hospital. 'Happy Hats for Kids' was founded in 1991 by Sheri Schrier and is a non-profit organization donating fun, felt Happy Hats and story/activity/coloring books to hospitalized children, to help alleviate their fears.  For more, visit: www.happyhatsforkids.com
 
 
Valentine Class Celebrations
 
Diyva is working on her practical life exercise which is encouraging her concentration span, eye/hand co-ordination and fine motor skills.

CHINESE LESSON

Children absorb languages easily when they are young. RHM teaches Spanish and now Chinese. Here Mrs. Wang is teaching the children parts of the body in Chinese.

Hands - in Chinese.

 

Long Beach Aquarium Field trip - enjoying the sting rays.
'COOL CRITTERS'  REPTILE PARTY

PUEBLAN MILK SNAKE

'Cool Critters' set up in our multi-purpose room. This was part of our unit study on reptiles and amphibians. Steve Harding (left) is an ex-Sheriff and a really sweet man. Steve told the children all about the animals and demonstrated how to handle them properly. While touching the animals was optional, it turned out that all the children had a great 'hands-on' experience.

BEARDED DRAGONS

The presentation was done so well that the children couldn't wait to get their hands on the animals. Naturally, all the 'touchable' creatures were predetermined by Sheriff Steve to be safe for the young ones to handle.  When Steve produced the scorpion he explained to the children that it had a sting like a bee and they should just look at it.

WHITE'S TREE FROGS

As with all the animals, the children were first shown how to hold the creatures properly so neither they, or the animal were injured. With the frogs, they were told to hold their free hand in front of the frog if they felt it may want to jump up their arm.

THE GRAND FINALE!  "BUBBA"

The children took turns in groups to hold and stroke Bubba the albino python.

 

THE CHILDREN PLANT SEEDS IN THEIR VEGETABLE GARDEN

This is a perfect example of how the older children help the young ones.

This is a key component of the Montessori philosophy.
THE FIRST SEEDS OF ROLLING HILLS MONTESSORI ARE PLANTED

One of our dad's gives a helping hand.  We welcome parental participation.
THE NATURAL  HISTORY MUSEUM

RHM had a field trip to the Natural History Museum in support our unit studies on Dinosaurs.  Here the children are listening to the instructor about all the insects and animals they would find in the Discovery Center.  It was a wonderful opportunity for parents to get involved with the school and their children.

Students getting a 'hands-on' approach in the Discovery Center
  The children are shown how to touch the turtle skeleton as shown by the presenter.