Middle School students are immersed in their AR or DM class. AR is starting basic programming with RobotC. They will be assembling a fully automated railroad crossing and programming the bars to move up and down. DM is …

You can now find out what’s for breakfast and lunch at every school on every day of the year. You can even find out nutritional information. Just visit the Dining section on the new DMPS Mobile App. If you don’t yet have the app, click the header to download it for Apple or Android and learn more about its many features.

You can now find out what’s for breakfast and lunch at every school on every day of the year. You can even find out nutritional information. Just visit the Dining section on the new DMPS Mobile App. If you don’t yet have the app, click the header to download it for Apple or Android and learn more about its many features.

Our returning and new preprimary students are adjusting nicely to the new school year.  Our goal as preprimary teachers is to help our students adjust to their new “Prepared Environment”.  An example of some of the lessons we …

Welcome back! In our first trimester we are studying Chemistry combined with Functional Geography and the beginning of time.  In chemistry we will be studying states of matter, elements, compounds, acids and bases. While in Functional Geography we are exploring …

View photos from the 2014 Cowles Montessori Peace Walk and Principal Greg Grylls ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on the Des Moines Public Schools Flickr page. Click the image to see the fun!

It was so hot out last week, Principal Grylls decided to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge right before the 2014 Cowles Montessori annual Peace Walk. Because it was so warm and muggy, that recycling bin of ice water felt extra-cold! You can hear the student body giggle as he does his, “boy, that was cold” dance! Click the image to watch the video.