City Garden Montessori School

10/27/2026

Tool Tuesdays: Exploring a Montessori Tool

How can a child learn to notice the tiniest differences in size?

Meet the Montessori Knobbed Cylinders.
Children remove the cylinders from a wooden block and match each one back to its exact space. Some cylinders change in width, some in height, and some in both.

As they work, they are strengthening:
• visual discrimination
• fine motor control
• coordination and purposeful movement
• concentration
• early mathematical thinking

There’s even an indirect connection to handwriting: grasping the small k***s helps prepare the fingers for holding a writing instrument.

What looks like a simple matching activity is helping children train their eyes, hands, and minds to notice dimension, order, and relationship.

Small differences. Big preparation.

10/26/2026

Montessori Mondays: Exploring the Montessori Difference

Apple Slicing

Sometimes independence starts with something as ordinary as preparing a snack.
As children slice apples, they’re doing much more than cutting fruit.

They’re practicing how to use a real tool carefully, coordinating both hands, following a sequence of steps, and paying close attention to what they’re doing.

They’re also building the kind of control, concentration, and confidence that grows when children are trusted with purposeful work.

And there’s something especially meaningful about completing a task they can see from beginning to end: prepare, slice, serve, enjoy.

These everyday moments help children become more capable, more responsible, and more confident in what they can do for themselves.

That’s the Montessori Difference.

10/26/2026

Our Phoenix volleyball team is 5-2 with just one game left before playoffs! They're in a great position for a top seed in the tournament. Way to go, team!

Come cheer them on at their final regular season game!

📅 Wednesday, October 28
vs. Loyola Academy | 6:00 PM

Go Phoenix!

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

Here’s what’s coming up in Phoenix Sports!

🏃 Cross Country
Sunday, October 25 • 4:00 PM
📍 Willmore Park
7200 Hampton Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109

🏐 Volleyball
Wednesday, October 28 • 6:00 PM
📍 Loyola Academy of St. Louis
3851 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108

Save the dates and come cheer on the Phoenix! ❤️🧡

10/22/2026

Some conversations are easy. The important ones aren’t always.

Join us for our first ColorBrave session of the year, a space for honest conversation, deeper connection, and collective learning around identity, empathy, and racial equity.

Come ready to listen, reflect, share, and grow together.

📅 Friday, October 30
📍 1618 Tower Grove Ave.

Dinner: 5:30–6 PM
Program: 6–8 PM

Childcare provided
Come as you are. Join the conversation.

Questions? [email protected]

10/21/2026

Costumes on. Candy buckets ready. 🎃

City Garden Trunk or Treat is back!

Join us for an afternoon of treats, activities, costumes, contests, and plenty of community fun. Kids can make their way from trunk to trunk, families can connect, and everyone can get creative.

🏆 Prizes for:
Best Costume
Best Decorated Trunk
Best Decorated Table

We’ll also be collecting food donations to support a local community organization, so bring an item to contribute if you can.

📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 11 AM–2 PM
📍EAEC Parking Lot | 4209 Folsom Ave.

Want to help make the day even more fun? Volunteer, decorate your car, host a table, or help hand out candy.

Please register in advance:
[https://www.signupgenius.com/go/CGMS-TrunkOrTreat]

Bring the family, bring the creativity, and come celebrate fall with City Garden.

10/19/2026

Montessori Mondays: Exploring the Montessori Difference

Even rolling up a floor mat has a purpose.

Children learn how to carry it carefully, unroll it with intention, and roll it back evenly before returning it to its place.

That sequence may seem small, but it helps build coordination, balance, order, and awareness of the environment around them.

It also gives children practice completing a task from beginning to end and caring for the shared classroom space along the way.

That’s the Montessori Difference.

10/15/2026

City Garden students are growing into Agents of Their Own Lives.

In these photos, students are building friendships, practicing social-emotional skills, working with language materials, matching words to pictures, exploring early reading and writing with the Movable Alphabet, strengthening number recognition with the 100 Board, and building confidence on a field trip to the park.

These are the moments that help children see what they are capable of.

City Garden’s Strategic Plan describes Agents of Their Own Lives as students who grow with confidence, agency, and the belief that they can shape their future and contribute to the world around them.

We’re grateful for sponsors like Renaissance Financial, whose support helps make this kind of whole-child education possible for City Garden students.

10/07/2026

Next Wednesday, we ride!

The BWorks/City Garden Bike Bus rolls out for its first October ride on Wednesday, October 14, and we’d love to see City Garden students, families, and staff join us.

We’ll leave Tower Grove Park’s central playground promptly at 7:45 AM and ride together to school. The return ride will arrive back at the playground around 3:30 PM.

Helmets are required, and advance registration is required.

Register here:
https://form.jotform.com/262640920617153

Can’t make it next week? We’ll ride again October 21 and 28.

Let’s start the school day on two wheels.