Hello Everyone!
DATE REDOS!
I have some dates to edit! School will go until December 21st. I marked until the 20th. The International Festival will begin on December 19th with the Junior High, December 20th will be Upper El, and December 21st will be Lower El’s presentation day. The RED paper that went home this past week has all the information regarding the International Festival. If your child misplaced it, please visit the project tab up top and then click on the link to review the information. Remember that the project is due by Dec. 21st! Thanks!
Our Holiday Classroom Party will then be December 20th in the afternoon still. Our room mom, Katie, will email you with any details she might need for the party 🙂
I am also rescheduling our Class Feast date. I am moving it to Monday December 18th. It will begin at noon. We will have a sign up sheet to bring food to share for this event. After our lunch we will have the students share their research on December holiday/Christmas traditions from around the world. They all chose their topic this past week in class as part of their December writing prompt assignment. this week they will begin reading the research and learn to write responses based on what they read to share with you on feast day!
A Note from MAPA (MMA’s parent committee):
Maria Montessori Academy Parents Association (MAPA) is very excited to announce that effective December 1, 2017 we will be using Track it Forward to schedule and record volunteer hours.
We feel that using track it forward will help us provide the most positive experience possible when signing up for and recording volunteer hours. This program will allow families to track their hours on their own electronic devices, send out reminders for sign ups and help us become a more centralized Montessori family.
Families are asked to donate 40 volunteer hours a year per family to the school. As a member of MAPA (all parents are automatic members) the MAPA presidency is trying to provide as many opportunities to complete this act of service yearly and Track it Forward will allow families to sign up to volunteer.
In sending your children to a Montessori school you are taking the initiative towards bettering your children and families. MMA’s mission statement is “Education for a better world” and by volunteering you are providing opportunities to help make this a better world.
The reason I volunteer is to provide my children with opportunities they may not get at other schools. “
Only a life lived for others is worth living.” — Albert Einstein. By volunteering you are giving of yourself to your children and the children of others. Volunteering does not have to be a big sacrifice of time away from the family or money spent, many teacher at the school offer opportunities to volunteer at home and MAPA has opportunities to volunteer where you can bring your children.
Ways you may be volunteering and not even know.
· Attending a MAPA meeting
· Room mom calls and asks you to cut something out or bring something to the class
· Coming into the school and reading with children
· Bringing in food for an activity
MAPA in cooperation with the MMA is trying to say “thank you” to those that have sacrificed time and volunteered this year by giving those families with 10 service hours completed an “act of service.” The details are still in the works but we want everyone to know that we appreciate and value all of those that have volunteered.
How Track it forward works:
Again we appreciate all that our wonderful MMA families do!!!
Past Week:
We welcomed a new student this past week, her name is Stevee and she is a first grader.
Fraction lessons were reviewed this past week and next week will be Geometry for Level 2s and 3s while a fractions follow up lesson will continue with first graders. Level 1s will begin to learn identifying fractions using pictures. Level 2s and 3s will do their own independent follow up work on greater than and less than with fractional parts this week as well.
Ms. Rachel came in on Wednesday afternoon and presented her monthly Botany lesson
All students met with me throughout the week in their language groups and chose a December holiday or how they do Christmas in that country. They will be learning informational writing by reading about their topic and then learning to take that information and write about it in order to present it.
In cultural this past week: History
Level 1s: Past, present, future review, what is a century and decade?, What is a timeline
Level 2s: Universe overview/review and The Sun in the solar system
Level 3s: Working on our timeline booklet. We got up to the Carboniferous Period
Upcoming Week:
The beginning of our week is going to bring a chill! Please make sure your child has warm attire to wear outside. This will be especially true for Tuesday morning’s early recess to accommodate PE and Music in the morning during their regular recess time.
Ms. Misha will not be at school Thursday
Friday will be an early release day! Please remember to have your child picked up at 1:00pm.
Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!
Ms. Kaley