| Mandatory Parent Orientation is coming soon! |
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One parent is required to attend Parent Orientation, although if you are a two or more parent family we would like to see both of you there. Please find child care for your child. This one hour also goes towards your volunteer hours.
Thursday, August 16th
Stepping Stones East & West 6-7pm
Upper & Lower Elementary 7:30 - 8:30pm
Monday, August 20th Primary East, West and South 7-8pm |
| Volunteer Opportunities |
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You don't have to wait until August 27th to start fulfilling your required volunteer hours!
Parent Workday
Sat, August 4th, 8am - 12pm
Please bring garden tools
Cutting Laminated Lessons
Tues, August 7th, 10am
Please bring scissors and/or paper cutter
Sorting Library Books
Painting Benches
Painting Bookshelves
Time & Date to be determined
Please contact the office to volunteer
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| PTO Corner |
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Uniform Rescue
Offering gently used uniforms
Mon - Thurs
9am - 1pm
Larger boy & girl size uniforms needed for
Uniform Rescue
Have gently used boy or girl uniforms, size 6 and larger that your children have outgrown? Please donate your clean uniforms!
PTO Meeting
Aug 9th, Elementary Bldg
630pm |
| Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork |
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Please turn in all your paperwork to the office ASAP!
Our staff is diligently working to prepare for the first day of school! But we need your help!!! We need time to verify all of your paperwork and process your auto-billing (which starts Aug 15).
If you haven't turned in all of your paperwork and you know who you are, please turn it in immediately. |
| What is Montessori? |
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A question I have always been asked by parents and friends, "What is Montessori?" My answer has evolved in the years from a simple sentence; "Montessori is an educational method" to:
Children learn best through intrinsic motivation
There are neither rewards nor punishments in true Montessori environments. Adults acknowledge and encourage the effort that has gone into children's work, but ultimately want the children to independently appreciate and value their own products.
Sensitive periods
Children go through these periods where they are inclined to learn and develop order internally and naturally. The adult must recognize the sensitive period as some thing important in the child's development because this period once lost will be lost forever. Dr. Montessori considers the loss of these periods as missing a bus or like a dropped stitch. The loss of these periods can never be filled. If the child at a later age is forced to do something e.g. learn a language, he will never be able to learn it as fast and well as he could have learned during the peak time of sensitivity.
Montessori is education for peace
Children are actively taught how to develop interpersonal skills that will result in their being empathetic to others.
to be continued next week...
Mona Livingston
Lower Elementary |
