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Butler Montessori School community adjusts to new space

Preschooler Cora Gill plays with a game in Germaine Schaeffer's class at Butler Montessori School on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle

BUTLER TWP — One of the tenants of education at Montessori schools is a consistent routine, so children easily understand when they have to do tasks and learn. So when Butler Montessori School was moving locations, its staff prepared students for the move, and got it done over a holiday break.

Christine Love, one of the two teachers at the school, said she and the other teacher, Germaine Schaeffer, had the students help with packing, so they understood that their things would come with them to the new school building.

“We were fortunate, and we talked about the move with the children, so they wouldn't be shocked by it,” Love said. “We tried to prepare them for that. We told them everything was the same; Mrs. Love and Mrs. Schaeffer would be there, it’s just the rooms are different.”

The community of Butler Montessori School is now almost two months into inhabiting the new space on Shockey Lane, after being at the Covenant United Presbyterian Church on East Jefferson Street in Butler for about 25 years, and Butler Catholic School for 25 years before that.

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