Our End of Year Celebration will take place on June 6th, 2023, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
It will take place on the Green Space, so feel free to bring a lawn chair or blanket. There will also be a Magic Show at 6:30pm, and also face painting, carnival games, and treats.
For Teacher Appreciation Week, we honored our teachers with flowers, snacks, sentiments, donuts and bagels, lunch and gift cards. Our Parent School Alliance organized the teacher recognition involving many parents for provisions, setup and delivery, and involved the Montessori Education Foundation to provide a catered lunch.
These wonderful people are personally and professionally prepared each day to serve as guides to our students. They prepare themselves and the classroom daily to model peace, grace and courtesy, provide interesting lessons, assess the success of their instruction, adjust for differing interests, mediate classroom issues and celebrate the child. These teachers are phenomenal in their year-long care and support of their students.
Please join us Wednesday April 19 at 6:30 PM for the April Parent Education night. This event will highlight the Healthy Boundaries Curriculum in use at the school and how to carry on conversations at home, and will include the importance of understanding emotions as it relates to the curriculum.
This will be an in-person event.
Presenters are Jennifer Taylor our School Nurse and Amanda Bywaters our Student Support Coordinator. There will be a Q&A session, books and resources available for parents viewing and snacks!
Our March Professional Development days last week provided our staff with a wonderful opportunity to all come together at the same time to learn and engage with each other. We focused on bringing much needed training on policies and procedures to our staff. We had a large focus on the Health, Wellness, and Safety of all members of our community as well as the Student Support training. This policy will be available soon on our website so look for it. All staff also had the opportunity to deep clean and organize in their classrooms and prepare curriculum and end of year items for the remainder of the school year.
Our priority task was sharing our new Risk Management Policy with the staff. We continued with Part B of our Creating A Culture of Safety: Child Abuse Prevention in-service training. Infant and Toddler staff learned more about using sign language in their classrooms. All other teaching staff had training on new Student Support observation forms.
All of us benefited from training from Nurse Jen who switched roles with our teachers and stepped into the educator role to provide training on medical response protocols during our PD days. We started off discussing the staff and student Incident/Accident forms and how to assess for concussion symptoms and continuing to observe for new or worsening symptoms.
We went through the classroom emergency backpacks and discussed the purpose of each of the first aid items and how to use them. Nurse Jen provided a demonstration of how to provide first aid for wounds before having everyone partner up to participate in a scenario where everyone had a chance to wrap each other’s wounds. We also discussed participation in the Stop The Bleed training as part of our CPR and First Aid training requirements.
Nurse Jen wrapped up her training sessions with our extended day and new teachers to review Medical Action and Support Plans and provided training for how to respond to situations such as Asthma, Anaphylaxis, and Epilepsy in the school setting.
During these days we also enjoyed some service project work. Outside we started garden bed preparation, turning over the soil and planting flowers and early vegetables. We also contributed completed fleece blankets for Project Linus.
The Fun Run is our primary fundraiser for our school’s nonprofit, the Montessori Educational Foundation.
Our goal this year is to raise at least $3500 total, with 80% family participation. Our students have the unique opportunity to raise pledges for the following Service Learning Projects:
Each class will have a time on April 11 from 9:15-11:15 AM to run laps on the field (and through a bouncy house). Snacks and water will be provided and we hope some parents can come to cheer the kids on. Stay tuned for a schedule of when your child’s/children’s class will participate. In addition, watch for a SignUpGenius next week regarding volunteer opportunities.
Please help to make an impact by:
We look forward to this exciting Service Learning experience and hope all of our families will participate with enthusiasm.
Thank you for your support!
Please find the 2023-2024 Academic Calendar here.
This weekend much of our staff attended the 20th Utah Montessori Council conference. The conference is for our Montessori teachers to share ideas, learn, socialize and be inspired. Schools were invited to share their peace project and our Amanda was invited to speak.
Amanda shared our Peace Rock story and arranged a Peace Rock Project display at the UMC conference. “This past fall, our staff and students (infants through upper elementary) painted peace rocks. Each class placed them in front of our school during our Peace Parade on International Day of Peace. We placed signs inviting the greater community to take a rock of peace. The idea was to spread messages of peace into our community.”
Amanda’s display featured rocks painted by our staff and students and information about our peace project. She invited the UMC attendees to make a peace rock or take one decorated by our school staff and students.
We are happy and honored that you have entrusted us with your child’s education and look forward to continuing that relationship for the next academic year.
Every family should have received an email from enroll@mcsslc.com on January 17, 2023 called Enrollment for Returning Student explaining how to complete the re-enrollment process for the 2023-24 school year. The email was sent to the same parent/guardian who filled out the application & enrollment forms previously.
Open enrollment for new families begins in the near future. We wish to preserve our current families’ spaces by enrolling your children first. Re-enrollment needs to be completed by February 15th. After this date, spaces will be opened to new families and your child’s placement will no longer be guaranteed.
If your child will not be returning for the 2023-2024 year, please email enroll@mcsslc.com to indicate your decision. Alternatively, log into FACTS Family Portal and click Apply/Enroll -> Enrollment / Re-enrollment and click the button “Will Not Enroll.”
If your family has elected not to return to FMSL next year, we recommend that you wait to relay that information to your child until closer to the end of the academic year. It has been our experience that children who are told in advance of such a change often lose their focus for the balance of the year, and begin the process of separation long before the change is imminent.
We understand that educational decisions are the result of a thoughtful, intentional process and we appreciate our families taking the time when they are considering re-enrollment for another school year. Do not hesitate to contact us at enroll@mcsslc.com if you have any questions or need assistance in this process.
Carson was born and raised in Utah. He has always had a passion for understanding the world around him and has found much love for travel and getting to know new environments, people, cultures, and language. He loves communication and is always looking for better and more productive ways to relate to others. Carson has a background in mindfulness, meditation, and Nada or Sound yoga. Prior to substitute teaching he found his passion for education through working with youth in special needs programs. Outside of teaching he enjoys music, reading, yoga & meditation, and hiking with his dogs. He is excited to grow with the community.
It has been a busy week with holiday programs, classroom sing-a-longs and potluck events.
Capping off this festive week was the staff Sweater Contest in which there were 3 categories to compete: Ugly, Gorgeous and Festive. There was some strategy in category selection, but the winners are: Carson for the Ugly Sweater, Elise for the Gorgeous Sweater and Karla for the Festive Sweater.
We do hope that you enjoy fun family time and look forward to more growth and education in the new