Welcome to Six Rivers Montessori
Our Vision
Our broadest vision is of a world that lives in peace, and a world community based on interdependence and respect for all life and all people. Our vision for our school is a Montessori school community of supportive parents, dedicated teachers and staff, and joyful learners.
Our Mission
Our mission is to nurture students’ character, compassion, respect and curiosity; to cultivate their means to learn, to invent, and participate fully and joyfully in life independently and collaboratively; to establish and sustain a quality Montessori holistic elementary and middle school program that encourages students to develop a deep sense of interdependence and responsibility as caring, global citizens and stewards of the earth.
Our School
Six Rivers Montessori is a Montessori Elementary School serving children in first through sixth grades. We prepare students broadly for life, balancing academic excellence with the development of personal and practical life skills. Our goal is to inspire a passion for excellence and a lifelong love of learning. We nurture curiosity, creativity, and imagination.
Important Dates
- November 1st: Staff Development Day, No School
- November 8th: Board Meeting 6:00pm-8:00pm
- November 19th-22nd: Thanksgiving Break
For a full schedule of instructional days and other important dates, please see our School Calendar page.
News and Recent Happenings
Barn Dance Fun
Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the lively music, joyful dancing, and delicious baked goods at this year’s Barn Dance. The Fundraising Committee worked really hard to make the event a success and about $1,000 was made for the school. If you see Sunny, Alicia, Natalia, Amy, Elizabeth or anyone else on our Committee, please be sure to give them a big thank you!
Food For People Volunteering
A big thank you to everyone who came out last Saturday to help out at Food For People! We packed SIX pallets of food that will be distributed to needy members of our community over the next year. What an awesome way to show up in our community and represent our school.
'Tis the Season
The Upper El (and a couple of siblings!) got to carol in front of Plaza on Friday night. Thanks so much to our music teacher, Teresa, for organizing this sweet event as well as all our parent volunteers who baked, sold coffee, and poured wine inside of Plaza for Arts Arcata!
The Cross Country season wrapped up this week.
We had several students compete this year including Emma, Bella, Ben, Lootah, and Olive, who placed 2nd in the county for 1st grade girls at the Championships! Thanks to all the students who came out to run in these super fun school events. The track season will start at the end of March.
Wolf Creek Science Camp
Garden Bounty
Our school garden is not only beautiful right now, but it’s also overflowing with nutritious food. This week the Upper El made salad and juice (which included these giant beets!), while the Lower El made salad and pizza. After sowing the seeds in the spring the students have the opportunity to practice food preparation, not to mention the satisfaction and joy of harvesting their own food.
Building Community
Many thanks to Teresa, our generous landlord and music teacher, for the inviting new bench to accompany our Little Free Library.
What are you bringing?
The Montessori Method is founded on the notion that children exercising free will within a developmentally appropriate, prepared environment will actualize their own unique human potential. Over the summer Michele and Bridget have been busy preparing the classroom environments for this great work, but the last and most important components cannot be bought or sold….
On the first day of school the sidewalks approaching the front door of Six Rivers Montessori will be inscribed with the values that make our school great. Respect. Hope. Kindness. Discipline. Imagination. Cooperation. Joy. Each and every one of us, parents, students, teachers, and Board members, are tasked with building the culture of our school by what we bring through the front door. Together we are creating a school culture of tremendous possibility and potential.
SRM Competes in First Track Meet
We had four students compete in the K-4 county track meet at HSU on Tuesday. Students ran in the 50 and 100 meters races, and tried the long jump and baseball throw. (The baseball throw replaces the javelin for this age group… less pointy.) They were all smiles and showed great sportsmanship throughout the two hour event even though they were soaked from the heavy mist by the end.
Pi Day!
Pi Day is a celebration of mathematics (it’s not just about eating pie!). The Pi Day website gives us this definition:
“Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159.
Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits.”
Of course, when you get to eat the pie after you’ve calculated pi, it makes it even more fun!
Ocean Day… Fun and a Great Cause
This week our third-sixth years participated in Ocean Day. They spent the morning pulling invasive beach grass and picking up garbage at the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area on the South Spit. Then they sat for the super cool aerial design above. Our students are in the crab’s top right leg, just below the big claw… in case you want to try to find them.
Nondiscrimination Policy
Six Rivers Montessori does not exclude or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin (ancestry), religion (creed), age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, disability, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services and benefits under any of its programs and activities, whether carried out by Six Rivers Montessori directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Six Rivers Montessori arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This statement is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at Title 45 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 80, 84, and 91.