On Saturday, six PGIA students accompanied by Ms. Silva set off for their Thanksgiving Break in Israel. They will spend three days at the Weizmann Institute Science Camp and the remainder of the trip will be dedicated to cultural explorations.
November 20th was a typically busy morning in the classroom. A morning of self-directed choices. Children displaying kindness, creativity, concentration, helpfulness, independence and joy. It’s as if I’m not even needed.
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare.
The PGIA’s Theater Elective class will be performing Macbeth this fall.
The show dates are Friday, December 13th and Saturday, December 14th at 7pm at the Solar Awning.
Admission is $10
In Chemistry class, students were testing the pH of water samples from around campus depending on their individual research questions. Here, they are using a variety of measurement tools to collect their data.
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VIMSIA Athletes participated in the Territory’s Cross Country Championships on St. Croix last weekend.
Aidan Griffith took 2nd place for Varsity Boys and Maia Tolud placed 1st for Junior Varsity Girls.
Congratulations to our runners!
Thank you RuthAnn David for the wonderful photos!
Saturday, November 2nd marked the 6th annual M2M Road Race! Participants woke up early and headed to Magens Bay Beach to run and walk in the three events, the 1-Mile Fun Run, 5k and 10k. It was a beautiful morning and everyone had a great time!
To check for your results please visit: http://www.m2mroadrace.org/official-times
This week PGIA students explored the topic of identity in their English, Spanish, and Art classes.
Starting this lesson in English class, students composed poems and biographies, highlighting their personality traits. Then, using these writings, self portraits were created in Pre-DP Art and Phase III Spanish class. An emphasis was placed on incorporating symbolism and imagery to show characteristics through their artwork.
The Pre-DP Art students then swapped the pieces and wrote a description of the artist in español. Ms. Rodriguez's Phase III students then translated the description to English and compared it to the original ideas written in English class.
This lesson explores language, identity, descriptive words, symbols and imagery in written and visual languages and how we express our thoughts and emotions to an audience.
MYP Students gathered on Wednesday to support their Grade 8 classmates in the Dancing Classrooms Performance. They also heard presentations on the recent Denmark exchange trip.
On Tuesday students in the DP Dance program went on a field trip aboard the Carnival Breeze. They explored various career opportunities in entertainment, engineering, tourism and hospitality with Ms. Helen and Captain John Amaro.
Last Friday, PGIA students Sy Sebastian, Deja-Marie Simon and Bella Zakers volunteered with Ms. Ferguson to paint faces for kids at the Lattes in Paradise Halloween party in Red Hook.
PGIA Student Council meetings are where students discuss future events and activities to make the life of a PGIA student more fun and exciting. Caroline Gasin, the SC President, and AnaPia Brunt, the SC Vice-President lead a planning meeting for their recent bake sale and an upcoming dance in November.
Great job Max and Ms. Hess’s class. They grew these basil plants in recycled water bottles and sold them to make money for their class garden. They made $113! Good job young people!
Coastweeks is a nationwide effort coordinated by The Ocean Conservancy. Last Thursday two UVI Researchers visited with grade 7 students in the PGIA and Upper Elementary Montessori students to discuss marine debris as part of the Ocean Conservancy's Coast Weeks program.
Their talks prepared grade 7 for an upcoming a beach cleanup. The presenters also spoke to the Upper Elementary about ocean debris, island hot spots for garbage and how students can get involved in ocean clean-ups.
Ms. Collings (Ms. Satter's mom!) visited Ms. Satter's class last week to do some cooking with the students. The students learned to make Banfora, a pineapple pancake-like recipe from Burkina Faso (one of the countries 6th graders are representing in MMUN). Student's also made caramel apples to get into the fall spirit.
Students in Ms. Hess’ class participated in a fun “Ice Cream in a Bag” community event that was tasty but also a cool chemistry demonstration.
Connor Erickson, in 7th grade, created an amazing plant cell model for science class! This model survived the trek all the way from water island.
Cross Country season is here!
The Back to School Fun Run was held last Tuesday as a season opening race. The following athletes placed in their respective divisions;
Boys 7-9y/o Half mile: Finn Torrice-Hairston 1st place
Girls 10-12y/o One mile: Zia Zucker 2nd place
Boys 10-12y/o One mile: Owen Livingston 1st place and Graham Pickett 2nd place
Girls 13-15y/o One Mile: Maia Tolud 2nd place
Boys 13-15y/o One Mile: Aidan Griffith 2nd place
Boys 16 & over One mile: Teagan Kappel 1st place
PGIA students met with 10 colleges and universities this week at the Autopista College Fair! Admissions representatives were on hand to answer our students' questions and talk about high school success strategies. Our visitors were very complimentary of both our campus and students...great job PGIA! Contact Kara Ebe Cook for more information or ways to get involved.
Max and his mom have been growing basil plants in recycled water bottles. Very cool in its own right, but the awesome thing is that the Upper El class will be selling the plants to raise money for their school garden! Good on you, Max - what a great way to give back to your school! Ms. Hess’s Upper Elementary class will be selling the basil plants on the afternoon car deck Thursday October 24th and Friday October 25th while supplies last. $3.00 per basil plant, cash only, donations welcome! Plants come in a self watering recycled water bottle planter. Proceeds of the sales will go towards supplies for the class garden.
Upper Elementary Pizza Wednesday was a huge success! The new small business model was a wonderful addition to the Montessori Upper Elementary curriculum. Everyone was excited for the big launch and it went even more smoothly as imagined! Well done Upper El, we look forward to next Wednesday already!
Virgin Islands Montessori School and Peter Gruber International Academy - a Montessori and International Baccalaureate Toddler through grade twelve private school in the beautiful U.S. Virgin Islands. Ask for Admissions 340-775-6360.
VIMSIA 6936 Vessup Lane, St. Thomas USVI 00802 info@vimsia.org Phone: 340.775.6360 Maps and Directions Staff Portal
