Ms. Laura's Class

Welcome to the last week before break.

Some things to be aware of this week.

1. Continent reports for international festival have been assigned.  Your child came home today with the packet that will help them plan and complete this project.  Each child chose a continent, and they will be studying the country in depth and creating a display board for the international festival on December 19th.  All due dates for the progress of this report are on the packet.
2. Take home project number 3 is due on November 30 – this is the book report on a historical fiction novel using the same rubric as the last three reports.
3. There will be no gratitude feast this Thanksgiving for my class, instead we are doing a book feast with our mentor class.  My hope was that having one less event that you needed to cook for would alleviate some of the stress (and leftovers) that this holiday can bring.  I am planning to have an event near winter break where parents will be invited – so stand by for that.
4. MAPA needs volunteers for help with the Community Gratitude Feast – details are on their blog.
5. Thank you for you (and your child’s) patience as we continue to work out the kinks with conferencing, we got to way more students last week, but we still haven’t hit our goal of every child-every week.  Maybe this one will be the one?!
6. Speaking of MAPA, please check out this flyerDO YOU EVER WONDER WHAT IS GOING ON? HOW TO GET INFO ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AT MMA?

   Here are some helpful hints:

   *MAKE SURE YOU ARE SUBSCRIBING WITH AN EMAIL YOU CHECK OFTEN

   ALSO MAKE SURE YOUR TEACHERS & THE OFFICE HAVE YOUR CORRECT EMAIL & YOU ARE CHECKING JUNK MAIL ALSO. THIS IS THE MAIN WAY OF COMMUNICATION*

   Join us for our MAPA meetings, the 1^st Friday of every month at 8:45 am

   *Here are the links to the school wide blogs and other social media:

   MAPA Blog:

   http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/mapa/

   School Blog:

   http://www.mariamontessoriacademy.org/?page_id=5392

   Jr. High Blog:

   http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/mmajh/

   MMA’s Facebook page:

   https://www.facebook.com/MMAofUT/

   MMA’s Twitter

   https://twitter.com/MMAofUT?lang=en

   *Make sure your subscribing to all the blogs, your child’s teachers and the school blogs.  You can also do this by going to http://www.mariamontessoriacademy.org then you can click on the link at the top that says staff & faculty for teacher blogs, where it says schedules & news for the school blog and the Jr. High tab for the Jr. High blog.

As always, any questions, comments, concerns, shoot me an email.  Thanks!