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.

New this year at Cowles Montessori, every seventh and eighth grade student will take the first two STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes.  Students will spend half of the school year learning Design and Modeling using AutoDesk Inventor.  Students will spend the other …

The new DMPS mobile app is designed to provide up-to-date and helpful information about the school district and all schools right in the palm of your hand. Now you can connect with Cowles and every school in Des Moines from anywhere and everywhere. Click the photo to learn more about the app and download to your Apple or Android smartphone.

Cowles staff and families spruced up the gardens this summer. When students return to Cowles Aug. 20th, they will start planning upcoming garden projects and this fall’s “Healthy Harvest” celebration. The gardens provide hands-on botany, hydrology, nutrition, math and language lessons. Click the image to see and read more.

Summer is almost over and the school season is near… Let’s kick off the new year with a meet & mingle event! There will be familiar faces and some new, so join us for this social event to …

Please join us on August 26, 5:30 to 6:30 for our Back-To-School Night!  Families will have an opportunity to meet their child’s new teacher and hear about upcoming events for the 2014-2015 school year.  We hope to see …

Cowles Montessori Parent Group (CMPG) will be once again running one of the four nonprofit-run beer and wine sales tents at the Des Moines Arts Festival, and again this year we will also be running the Iowa Craft Beer …

Congratulations to the Cowles Montessori 8th Grade Class of 2014 in their promotion to high school.

As part of school-wide effort to promote a healthy lifestyle and the benefits of exercise, the seventh and eighth grade students are going to bicycle from Cowles Montessori School to Saylorville Lake next week.  The group will ride …