All posts by Scott Helm

Building “edible” homes for the holidays
Building “edible” homes for the holidays

In honor of the upcoming Christmas holiday and at-home family traditions, Mrs. Quirple’s 1st and 2nd graders enjoyed creating holiday houses with loved ones. Moms, dads and grandparents joined in on the fun, helping to glue and decorate these festive creations. We hope that you had as much fun as our students did in making …

Seeing ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Seeing ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Trevose Day School and Neshaminy Montessori students took a trip to New Jersey’s Kelsey Theater to see a production of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” on Monday, December 11. The excitement and wonder of the long-awaited midnight visit by Santa Claus, made famous in Clement Moore’s poem, was brought to life in a fun and enchanting …

Book Fair
Book Fair

Trevose Day School and Neshaminy Montessori will be holding their annual book fair from October 9th-13th. We are so excited with our partnership with Doylestown Bookshop, which helps bring authors, book fairs, and information sessions and more to our school! The elementary students had a …

Chalk Paint
Chalk Paint

Our younger campers had a colorful time experimenting with chalk paint. We used the following recipe to make our chalk paint: Ingredients: 1/2 Cup water 1/2 Cup cornstarch Food ColoringSome of our more curious campers, however, came up with their own version too! Here they can be seen soaking chalk in …

Summer Camp
Summer Camp

Our Young Explorer camp is off to a fun-filled start! Along with visits to the library, art projects, French and time in the classroom, our young campers take time to make new friends, get to know about one another, and just have some fun in the sun and sprinklers!

Engineer Week
Engineer Week

This week with our Young Explorers, we are studying the world of engineering. For our youngest learners, they are finding out how things are built and why. They are testing structures and then finding ways to construct it better. Throughout their week, the campers will have building challenges. Today, we built …

Opera Performance
Opera Performance

The students of Trevose Day School gave an Opera performance at the end of the school year. After many hours of practice, and with the dedication of our Opera Director, Charis Duke, every student performed in “The 12 Dancing Princesses” to …

Opera Dress Rehearsal
Opera Dress Rehearsal

The students of Trevose Day School and Neshaminy Montessori had many practices and a final dress rehearsal for their opera performance of The 12 Dancing Princesses, written and directed by Charis Bean Duke. They all had so …

Field Trip To Ellis Island
Field Trip To Ellis Island

On June 5th, Mrs. Buckley and Ms. Williams took the 1st to 5th grade students to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. This trip was a great culmination for the year according to Mrs. Buckley as her students have been studying American symbols. It is always …

Getting Ready For The Opera
Getting Ready For The Opera

Teaching opera to young students truly integrates arts into academics. Listening to and being a part of an opera is an excellent way to teach and reinforce language. An opera is literature that comes alive! Children learn best when they engage the senses and the whole body. Being able to sing, …