The Week of September 28

Room 21 Newsletter

We have our field trips planned for the entire year!  Dates are posted below. Please pay close attention to which grade level and date (your child) is going, as we had to split things up according to available programs for the grade level of your child.  All permission slips will be sent home this week.  Please send them in all together along with exact change of $9.25, completely filled out and signed by parents and student.

Field Trips:

Tuesday, October 27, 2015- 1st and 2nd Grades

Wednesday, October 28, 2015- 3rd Grade

Wednesday, November 18, 2015- Entire Class $4 p/ student

Musical Explorers Friday, December ? Entire Class (this date is not set in stone)

Tuesday, December 15, 2015- 3^rd Grade  $5.25 p/student

Wednesday, December 16, 2015- 1st & 2nd Grades $5.25 p/ student

Wednesday, March 30, 2015- Entire Class

Please read the following letter from our PTA:

September 22, 2015                          

Dear Families,

The Charles Ellis Montessori PTA knows that a strong partnership among our families, school leaders, and community at-large is important for the success of our students and school. That’s why we are participating in the National PTA School of Excellence program, which celebrates partnerships between PTA and schools to enrich the educational experience and overall well-being for all students.

As a National PTA School of Excellence, families feel welcomed and empowered to support student success, and PTA is a key partner for continuous school improvement. We feel Charles Ellis Montessori Academy and the Charles Ellis Montessori PTA can achieve that together – and the result will be national, state and community-wide visibility for the positive impact we are making together at Charles Ellis.

We need your help! As part of the process, National PTA requests feedback from families at two points in the school year – the beginning and end. Your feedback in the beginning of the program will help to generate a customized Roadmap to Excellence, which will provide specific recommendations for improving our family-school partnership and achieving excellence.

Please take 5-10 minutes to reflect on your experience at this school and complete the included survey.  You should select the option that most accurately expresses how you feel about your experience. This survey is completely anonymous. Please complete the online survey no later than October 16, 2015, as the survey will close on this date at 5:00 p.m.  TAKE SURVEY

Does this sound like a PTA program you’d really like to help with? Join us! Contact Gloria (gloria.ellispta@gmail.com) or St.Claire (stclaire.ellispta@gmail.com) to learn more!

Sincerely,

Gloria Rigsbee

Charles Ellis Montessori PTA President 

St.Claire Mars

Charles Ellis Montessori PTA Co-President  

                                             

Tanya Melville

Charles Ellis Montessori Academy Principal

Dates to Remember:

9/30    Erdkinder Sidewalk Arts Festival 4- 6:30 ALL WELCOME

10/2    All Unwanted Pictures and/or Picture Money Due

10/8    Parent Education- Math Night

10/12  Staff/Student Holiday- NO SCHOOL

10/16-18 MESS Holiday Photo Fundraiser (proceeds go towards our Montessori teacher training and certification)

10/26-30 Great Pumpkin Book Characters- Media Center

10/30   Bobcat Dads Reading Day (Spooky Stories)

10/30   PTA Fall Festival- Backyard 4-?

10/30   Dress Down "Sports Stars" $1 for Athletics Fund

Upcoming HEALTHY snack weeks for 25 students: 

**We are a PEANUT FREE classroom.**  

Some suggestions for snack are: precut fruit (apples, grapes, bananas cut in half, oranges, etc.), precut vegetables with hummus for dipping, cheese and crackers, granola bars or chewies, trail mix, applesauce, hummus and crackers, yogurt or Gogurt, graham crackers…  The purpose of snack is to provide a nutritious energy booster when the students need it.  Please keep in mind the nutritional value when choosing a snack.  

           

9/21    Jaylen

9/28    Shelby

10/5    Bradaya

10/12  Desmond (4 day week)

This Week's Lessons : (students continue to work on previous lessons)

Language/Reading

Classification

Alphabetical Order

Prefix/Root

Finding Cause and Effect

Penmanship/Cursive

Letter "j"

Arithmetic

Stamp Game +x-/

Golden Beads- Dynamic Addition

Hundreds Board

Time- Hour, Half Past, Quarter To, Quarter Past

Rounding

Science:

Non-Living/Living

Rocks and Minerals

Weather/ Seasons

Social Studies:

Vincent van Gogh Research

Historical Figures Research