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International Festival

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PLEASE READ

My favorite school event is happening in just under 5 weeks.  The international festival!  Our classroom is presenting on South America.  On Friday, students had the opportunity to explore ideas they may be interested in further investigating.   Your child may complete a project on anything relating to South America.  They can choose a particular country, animal or animals, food, culture, land marks, etc.  The sky is the limit.  Lower Elementary will be presenting on Thursday, December 17th.  Every student will need to have a completed tri-fold presentation board completed by the 15th.   (This is the only home project that this board is required). The day of the festival, students are welcome to bring artifacts, food samples, etc. Mark your calendars.  Families are encouraged to come and visit all the lower elementary classrooms from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday.  Upper elementary will be presenting on Wednesday the 16th from 9:00-11:00 a.m.  You are welcome to come and visit during those times.  If you do choose to come, you are encouraged to visit other classrooms with your child.  If you have questions, please send me an email.

Nutcracker Field Trip

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Hi Parents,

Today, your child should have brought home a red permission slip to attend the Nutcracker on Monday, December 7th.  Please fill them out and return them right away.  I will only be able to take one chaperon on the field trip due to limited seating.  If you are interested and available, please email me right away.  I will have you help with a small group of about 9 students.  We will be taking a bus from the school.  If possible, we are asking for a donation of $3.00 to help pay for the bus.  Here is a link you can use to make a donation or you can send a check to the front office.  If for some reason your child will not be here that day, will you please let me know.

Thanks, Ms. Brittany

Chili Cook-off

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Dear MMA Families,
Fall is in the air, can you smell it?  Come to the school to enjoy some chili and vote for your favorite at our annual chili cook-off on Thursday November 12, 2015 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM.

If you have a great chili recipe, please join in on the fun and participate as a contestant.  There will be a fabulous prize for the chili with the most votes.  Please use this wejoinin link – http://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/vtlns to sign up to bring chili or volunteer to help out at the event.

What is your favorite chili? Come find out next week

Excited to see you,
Teara Galbraith

Note from our room mother about Friday

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Hi all it is that time of year.

 

Our Halloween Class Party will be this Friday October 30th from about 1:30 to 3:00

 

We will be doing several fun things!

 

Boo-Bowling

Making a healthy “Candy-Corn” Snack

Making a paper plate ghost

Playing Bingo

Guessing Game

Word Search

 

It will be lots of fun, and we need all of you to help make it a success!

Here is a link to sign up to help out with some items or with your time.

 

Thanks again,

 

If you have any questions feel free to

 

Melissa Bielaczyc

801-652-9135

Melissa.Bielaczyc@gmail.com

 

Parent Reading Volunteers

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Hi,

We need your help with reading and such this year in our classroom.  I have create a link here for you to sign up and help.  Multiple volunteers can sign up in one time slot. ( I have enough need to keep you busy). This help is primarily working with students.  We greatly appreciate your time.  Remember all families are asked to donate 40 hours of volunteer time each year.  You are welcome to sign up for both hours back to back.  We are flexible if these exact times do not work for you.  Please just make a note next your sign up or send me an email.  I know a few of you mentioned your willingness to help during conference and I already had one wonderful mother start last week.  If you would please go ahead and sign up on this link, I would greatly appreciate having one document for all volunteers who come during our morning work cycle.  Thank you for your willingness to help.

Fall Festival

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Fall festival fliers were sent home on Friday.  For those of you new to the school, this is the annual fundraising festival where students can celebrate and wear their costumes. (Students will not wear costumes during school hours).  Discounted wrist bands and tickets will be sold this week during parent teacher conferences.  The festival is Friday October 23rd, from 4-7 p.m.  We look forward to seeing everyone at this fun event.

Certified Drivers

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Parents who are willing and interested in becoming certified drivers or substitutes, fingerprinting will be done at the school during conferences.  This is the link to sign up for a time: http://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/zavrk

We could always use more certified drivers to help drive students for field trips.  (The time you spend driving and attending field trips goes towards your 40 hours of yearly school service).   If you are already a certified driver, would you please email me.  This is help me in planning our future field trips.  Thanks so much for all your wonderful help and support.

Homework Folders

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First, thank you so much for helping your child learn accountability and making certain they are completing their nightly reading and returning their folders each week.

Today, in your child’s take home folder, they brought home a small slip of paper explaining our school literary magazine.  This is an opportunity to create original work to be submitted to The MMA Review.  The deadline for submissions is November 5th.  If interested, students will be given class time to work on projects.  Please feel free to talk with your child about some possible submissions pieces they would be interested in creating.

Also, we as a school are working hard to be mindful of our paper usage.  I did not send home reading logs this week.  My hope is that the habits are being established and that the reading is taking place for 20 minutes each night.  If you feel that having an actual log helps your child be accountable for their reading, please let me know and I will place one in their folder, otherwise, I will not be sending them.  Starting next week, we will be sending home a brief reading assignment to complete in relationship to their reading.

Home projects will start in October.  Our first topic will be Zoology.  Level 1: vertebrates, Level 2: the human body, and Level 3: invertebrates.  I will first explain the criteria to the students tomorrow and then I will send out a blog post explaining the criteria and the topics through the end of the school year.   So please be on the lookout.

Also, there was no flier sent out, but MMA cafe is starting tomorrow.  Students may purchase items from the cafe for lunch.  The menu will initially start small and will grow over the coming weeks.  The following are items are available at this time:

Chocolate Milk  ($1.00)  Capri Sun ($.75)  Microwave Mac n Cheese ($1.50)  Pancakes (chocolate chip or blueberry 3 for $.75)  Fruit Snacks (.$50)  and Fruit/Nut bites ($.25 cents)

My understanding is that Jr. high will run the cafe on Tuesdays and 6th grade will run the cafe on Thursdays.  The cafe is a fundraiser for their travel field trips in the spring.

As always, please feel free to share celebrations, concerns, or questions via email at bherrera@mariamontessoriacademy.org

Oh!  Just a small side note, Ms. Susan will be out until Thursday due to training.