Alumni Spotlight

My name is Claudia Cerezo. I am now in seventh grade, and I attended Montessori when I was in preschool and kindergarten. My favorite part about Montessori was being outside all the time. We planted multiple gardens throughout the year ranging from snap-peas to carrots. We also went outside to have recess. I remember the caterpillar invasion that had all of us running from tree to tree trying to make our own family of caterpillars. I remember my class doing “What a Wonderful World” in sign language. We also sang a song in Spanish called “De Colores” that I still today like to go around my house singing. Mrs. Karen and I would sit on the floor together making long chains to show how addition, subtraction, and even multiplication and division worked. I had one on one time with my teachers to make sure I knew how to say the word “animal” correctly. Mrs. Karen would go around the room taking pictures of all of us making art with play-dough or doing puppet shows behind a table. One of the best things that Montessori gave me was my best friend, Jordan. We graduated together and when we got our photo albums from our past years at Montessori, there was not a single picture of me without Jordan (with the exception of a couple pictures of my first “boyfriend,” Alex Stanley.)