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.