Countryside Cares: Middle School students serving as "Elves" for the Children's Theatre's annual Santa's Bag outreach program.

Countryside Communique - Week of December 9, 2013Week

Countryside Cares

In all classrooms, across 3 campuses, Countryside students are organizing efforts to help those less fortunate in our community this holiday season and into the New Year. Here is a list of some of the efforts:

Soldier Care Drive: The Sophomore Class is collecting items to send to our troops overseas. They have put plastic bins at each campus. Please donate now through Dec. 20. Here are suggested donations:

Pre-packaged snacks
Personal care products
Gatorade power
Small Stuffed Animals (to give to children living in the local villages near their bases)
DVD's and CD's
Handwritten letters and cards

Santa's Bag Outreach Effort: For over 10 years, Countryside Middle School students have partnered with Children's Theatre Santa's Bag Outreach program at Imaginon. For 4 days our students assist young children (usually ages 2 - 10) some of whom have physical and mental challenges select Christmas gifts for family and friends. One some days our students help over 100 children.

Salvation Army: UE 1 students are helping the Salvation Army Adopt-a-Family program by providing gifts for a single Mom and her four children this Holiday Season. They are purchasing gifts, wrapping them and delivering them to her home. The UE 1 community raised over $400 for this purpose by hosting an Italian Meal Night early in the school year.

Urban Ministries Center: UE 2 students will be participating in "Operation Sandwich" making dozens and dozens of sandwiches for those whom Urban Ministries serves.

Loaves & Fishes: In January 2014, UE 2 students will be working in the warehouse sorting, stacking and organizing food donate to Loaves & Fishes over the holiday season.

Hinds Feet Farm: LE 3 is collecting donations for the Hinds Feet Farm in Huntersville, NC.

Ronald McDonald House:

All Countryside families can help collect the pull tabs from aluminum canned drinks. Collection bins are located at all 3 campuses.

American Red Cross: LE 2 is doing Chores for Charity to earn money to make a donation to the Red Cross, earmarked for North Carolina tornado victims.

Egret's Walk Has Heart: Ms. Debby Haugh and her fellow neighbors in Naples, Florida delivering homemade Valentine's Cards, snacks and socks to residents in nursing homes.

Middle School Student Art Displayed at Mint Museum

through Sunday

Middle School students studied the life and art work of Charlotte born collage artist Romare Bearden. They looked closely at a large 6 panel work of Bearden's called The Block which illustrates a city street in Harlem in the early 1970's. Using Bearden's The Block as our muse, the students were asked to create a collage work of the place they call home.

Please take time to visit the Student Gallery on the lower level of The Mint Museum (Randolph Road) and support or students! They spent many weeks of hard work paying tribute to their homes.

The following students have artwork on display:

Gillian Taylor, Colin Singh-Latulipe, Santiago Sandoval, Natalie Doxey, Dominic Sultana, Lake Weaver, Jon Callahan, Tori Hancock, Alex Rodgers, Nia Pinckney, Abbas Akmal, Tyler Sturdivant, Noah Hughes, Andrew Henriques, Peyton MacKenzie, Sydney Shaner, Emily Pon-Cooper, Hannah Simpson, Sky Fuller, Caleb Cooper, Netanya Dennis, Steven Stum, Behnam Hanachi, Andrew Blasi, Ben Leach , Lucy Wilson, Chloe Wilson, Alex Shaw, and Madison McKenzie

The remainder of the students work was displayed at the Art Crawl (last Sunday.)

Vive la Art Crawl!

Henri Matisse would have been so proud of all the Countryside artists and performers who participated in last Sunday's Art Crawl. Go to our Facebook page to see photos from this annual event.

Much appreciation goes to Paula Canavan, our Volunteer Director of Special Events for all her hard work in planning and executing the many details of an event like this.

Of course, the true geniuses are our dedicated Art Teachers:

Cara Bailey and Sedi Devoe for inspirating our students to artistic greatness! And special thanks to their talented, fellow faculty members for directing our student performers:
PC Music Teacher - Lee Darling

Drama Troupe Director - Michele Rothschild

LE Yoga Instructor - Lee Darling

UE Yoa Instructor - Heather Koz

High School Music Club Sponsor - Julia Signorelli

Countryside Grad Night

Monday, Jan. 6, 2014

Welcome Back Alumni:
Class of 2011, 2012, 2013

Countryside Alumni will be our special guest at the High School home basketball game. We'll invite them to center court at half-time for introductions.

"Fill the Chair"

Fill the Chair is a campaign to grow Montessori awareness by inviting parents, relatives, neighbors to see an authentic Montessori classroom in action.

Four Thursdays in January you will have the opportunity to observe our environments (Toddler - 12th Grade) and view the wonder of Montessori.

Seating is limited so please RSVP to Dolores Murgolo to reserve your chair!

Fill the Chair Dates:
PC - Jan. 9 @ 9 am
MC - Jan. 16 @ 9 am
JO - Jan. 23 @ 9 am
All Campuses: Jan. 30 @ 9am

Information from the

Board of Trustees

Next Board Meeting:

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

6:30 pm at the Mallard Creek campus (Art Room)

Items may be requested to be placed on the agenda, if submitted in writing at least one week prior to the meeting.

Email boardoftrustees@countrysidemontessorischools.org

We are very grateful to the many Countryside families who have donated to The One Fund this school year. To date, 161 families, 45% of our Countryside community have contributed in some form.

If you made a monetary donation and/or participated in Mustang Madness, played in our Golf Classic, or purchased art at the Art Crawl you have supported The One Fund and by extension each and every student at Countryside Montessori School.

It's never too late to donate. You can send a contribution any time and for any amount that fits your family. You can also donate online. Please note: only monetary donations to The One Fund are tax deductible. Participating in and/or buying items at a Countryside event does support The One Fund but is not tax deductible based on IRS rules.

We extend our sincere appreciation to the families listed below for their generous support of The One Fund through their monetary donations and/or participation in fundraising events thus far this year:

Emerald

($2,500 - $9,999)

Rick and Sarah Blasi

Jeff Fuller and Sarah Thurber

Farid and Saghar Hanachi

Marty and Debby Haugh

Mark and Josie Lake

Brad Leach and Jameela Nikolich (in-kind)

1981 Society

($1,981 and above)

Ken and Paula Canavan

Beth Griffiths

Rob Singh-Latulipe and Celine Latulipe

Michelene Taylor

Habieb and Chandra Williams

Platinum

($1,000 - 1,980)

Brent and Cindy Blizewski

Jim and Gina Broom

Elena French

Rafael and Rachel Hidalgo

Frank Hodges

John and Heather Koz

Rodney and Juanita Massiah

Jimmy and Wilhelmenia Rembert

Catherine Verratti

Gold

($500 - $999)

Brandon and Sedi Devoe
Christina Fluet
Matthew Girdharry and Lynn Soltis

Lynn Stutts Hagler

Ken and Tysha Hagood

Richard and Charlotte Halperin

Don and Deb Hanson

Steven and Danielle Martini

Curtis McLamb

Ron and Katie Miller

Todd and Cheryl Nuccio

Brett and Mary Pawlowski

Doug and Heide Putt

Tony and Marina Riggio

Silver

($250 - $499)

John and Jacki Altmeyer

Cara Bailey

Adam Bennett and Hannah Randall

Jeff and Kelly Chun

Edward and Suzanne Dornsmith

Melanie Fabian

Jeff and Leah Hanood

Steve Kaufman and JD Dolinger

Jens and Cara Mueller

Paresh and Salauni Patel

Nicholas and Sally Pierce

Hever Rendon and Monica Perez

Steven and Jeretta Schaefer

Terry and Susan Simpson

Eugene and Inna Sokolova

Shannon Sullivan

Kenneth and Elizabeth Tompkins

Sunil and Mrinalini Uchil

Jane Watson

Lola Schappell

Bronze

($100 - $249)
Rachel Andrepont
Josh and Shanna Anderson

Lee Beagles and Claire Mongelard-Beagles

Jonathan Bird and Susan Lee
Karen Booker
Alicia Brady

Lynn Breidenstein
Felicia Broadnax
Jennifer Burgess

Clay and Julie Callahan

Kate Clardy

Christine Clarke

Brian Cooper and Jeanette Pon
Leah Cooper

William and Rebecca Cottrell

Austin and Dawn Dantzler

Kent and Jennifer Ellington

Danielle Fadeley

Jason Giersch and Beth Whitaker

Shari Hatem

Bob and Renee Haywood

Aaron Henley

Farida and Donald Jacobs

Hidemasa and Yuko Kaida

Chelsea Lafferty

Mike and Kim Lyda

Joe and Diane Lynch

James and Kristine Mahoney

Clint and Michelle McGraw

Dolores Murgolo

Jarrett Murgolo

Kevin Pope

Lynn Price

Kathy Rigney

Tim and Cindy Ridge

Michele Rothschild

Ashish Shah and Jagruti Amin

Jason and Katherine Sharpee

Omar and Karen Sidak

Julia Signorelli

Meredith Swanson

Brandon Uttley and Kelli Scott

Charles and Linda Snyder

David and Jennifer Spencer

Wayne and Nancy Thiessen

John and Magali Wickliffe

Maisha Williams

Other
(Up to $99)

Pierre and Nicole Abry

Huma Alam

Nicolle Anderson

Tricia and Darren Biggers

Jason and Paige Black

Suzanne Bouchet

Niles and Tameka Brown
Kurt and Stacy Brust
Scarr and Julie Cansler

Jacqueline Churzin

Carrie Copeland

Caitlin Craver

Pamela Doxey

Nekee and Gina Dykes

Joel and Marilyn Farrand

Raffe and Angela Felts

Anthony Fodor and Sandra Clinton

Chris and Tammie Fowler

Zeb Fry and Lisa Davis

Steve and Jennifer Funk

Joseph and Catherine Goldstein

Jau Guidotti

Phil Gould and Katy Renard

Kimberly Hales

Mark Henriques and Anna Guyton

Samuel Hutagalung and Fernanda Tjong

David and Lyndee Ivey

Adam and Wendy Kimball

Michael Madden

Prabhu Maragathavannan and Mahalashmi Ramani

Roy and Kimberly Matthews

Phil and Claudia McGlothlin

Robert and Renee McKenzie

Chris and Sarah McMillan

Juan and Paula Mobley

Nicole Mooney-Taylor

Delon and Brenda Murphy

Sherry Nobles

Miguel Pando and Sandra Dika

Nick and Julie Pili

Ryan Rabah and Jamie Horowitz-Rabah

Jonathan and Sacey Reed

Andrea Rieves

Sergio Ruiz and Elizabeth Sanchez

Carlos Sandoval and Jeannette Ortiz

Richard Seth and Jessica Ebersberger-Seth

Ethan and Jennifer Shore

Jarred and Kimberly Smith

Charles and Linda Snyder

Brian and Angela Spaugh

Pamela Stearns

Michael Stefanac and Lisa LaCaria

Michelle Stephan and Christine Robinson

Masamitsu and Erina Suzuki

Tri Tran and Linda Doan

Brandon Uttley and Kelli Scott

Lindsay Van Loon

Thanh Vu

Bill and Angela Wood

Elaine Young

CMPTO Corner

December Events

Dec. 11 - 18 Scholastic Book Fair 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Mallard Creek Campus

Dec. 20 - Last day of school before Winter Break

January Events

Jan. 6 - Children return to School after Winter Break

Jan. 9 - Spirit Night at Jason's Deli--We need your help! This year they would like us to "reserve" our spots: please sign up if you plan to attend, thank you! http://www.groupraise.com/events/2175

Jan. 14 - CMPTO Meeting at 6:30, Mallard Creek Campus in the Art Room

Jan. 29 - Teacher Appreciation "Souper" Bowl

Jan. 30 - Celebrate Countryside - State of the School Dinner/Meeting

Countryside Cookbook

Calling all cooks! We are compiling a Countryside Cookbook. More details soon.

Stay Informed

The CMPTO keeps the School Calendar updated on RenWeb. We also post current announcements and events. If you are having trouble accessing RenWeb please contact Katie Miller at katiemiller@countrysidemontessorischools.org

Re-Enrollment: 2014-2015

Packets will be sent home with your child the week of January 6, 2014. Deadline to submit your re-enrollment contract is

February 14, 2014.

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