MontessoriEducation?
As you are already aware, one of the core components of the Montessori methodology is the 3 hour uninterrupted work cycle. This cycle may occur in the morning or afternoon. As a public school and especially this year with construction limiting outdoor spaces, this has become a challenge! By law, we are required to provide 135 minutes/week of PE and 30 minutes a day of recess. This means creative scheduling to ensure that all students in our 34 PK – 6th grade classrooms receive these opportunities! Coach Garza is our PE teacher who has been working diligently to utilize the cafeteria, pavilion and outdoor spaces. Due to a snag in construction, the kitchen will not open until January!
Traffic Safety
When you return you will find that the parking spaces on the street in front of the school have been replaced with curbs and landscaping per the construction plans. Plan ahead for drop-off and pick-up. Remember there is a visitor lot on the side of the modular building facing Wakefield.
If you have children in grades K – 8th grade you are recommended to use the circle drive for drop-off. Be sure to pull all the way up to the gate in the fence in the circle drive and drop off. If you are walking, be sure to cross with the crossing guard, using the cross walks.
Weekly Montessori Moment
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. –Dr. Maria Montessori
MAGNET APPLICATIONSfor 2018-19!
Remember - 5th graders must reapply for 6th grade! Application deadline is Dec 8th. Zoned spaces begin in Kinder and end at 5th grade. We recommend that non-enrolled, zoned Kinder students apply to be sure we your spot reserved! Apply at Procedures for Walkers
Remember to enter through the walkers’ gate near room 6. If you attempt to enter at the main office, you will be directed to the side gate. Teachers combine classes and one teacher will dismiss the car riders to the front of the school. If your child’s classroom is in the interior courtyard, please wait in the pavilion area until 3pm and then walk through the halls near the cafeteria to the courtyard to pick up. If your child’s class is in the modular building, walkers will still be dismissed in the pavilion. Please refrain from knocking on the doors of the classrooms or peering in through windows of classes. School is in session until we dismiss at 3pm. We will have staff members at the pavilion and in the halls near the cafeteria to help you during dismissal.
ImportantNovember/DecReminders!
Strength3 Friendship:
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” Khalil Gibran
Practice your Spelling Bee list for December
28– 29 Children’s House Zoo Field Trip
28 - December 1 5th grade overnight Outdoor Education Camp
Dec 1: Pastries with Pollock and PAC#2, 8am Dec2 & 3rd: Barnes and Noble Book-Fair and Holiday Performances!Look for classroom performance schedule on LivingTree!
December 3: Final School Choice Fair,9am-noon at Key Middle School
We still have free copies of Every Child A Super Reader for you in the front office. Check Living Tree for links to the audio/video support and help your child become a SUPER READER!
Campus open every day at 7:15am
Watch for the Delightful Days of December
coming soon!
From the desk of Dr. Lindsey Pollock, Principal
November27, 2017 Volume 10, Issue 10