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Discovery Montessori May 2008 Newsletter
Discovery Montessori
May 2008 Newsletter
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Dates
to Remember
May 1st
Registration Deadline
for Summer and Fall
May 9th
Parents’ Day Program 1:00-3:00 NO SCHOOL OR CHILDCARE
May 26th Memorial
Day-NO School or daycare
May 27th Field
Trip to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
May 29th Last
Day of School (dismissed at regular times)
May 30th Potluck
Picnic at Long Lake 11:30-2:00
June 23rd First day of Summer School
Registration for Summer and Fall
After May 1st we will be
opening up registration to children who are not returning students.
We advise parents of returning students to please turn in the
registration form and your registration fee so we may guarantee your child’s
placement.
If
you have turned in a registration form for fall,
remember that there is a $35.00 partial registration fee payment needed to
guarantee your child’s placement.
Parents’ Day Program
On
Friday, May 9th 2007, the children will be hosting a program in honor
of their parents from 1:00 to 3:00 in the Kitsap Room.
There
will be refreshments for the parents and children in their classrooms following
the program. The Kendall class will
meet in the Olympic Room. There
will be no childcare or school that day except when the children attend
the program. Please allow extra time, as parking can be a
problem with this many parents arriving at the same time.
All children need to eat before they come.
All children
should be in their classrooms at 12:30. Mrs. Corey’s class will meet in the
Olympic Room in the Givens Community Center at 12:30.
Memorial Day
There will be no school or daycare on
Monday, May 26th.
Accounts
We have attached a statement to this
newsletter to better help you with your last payment. Please make your payment for the amount shown.
If you have any question about your statement, please see L.J or Brenda
in the office or you can call them between 8:00 and 4:30.
We would like the accounts to have a zero balance at the end of May.
Study of the Month
This month we will concentrate our study on mammals.
Mammals are backbone animals, which have hair or fur on their bodies and
give milk to their young. While this classification has many of the typical zoo
and farm animals, it also includes bats (the only mammal with wings) and many
water animals such as whales, dolphins, seals, otters, and sea lions as well as
humans. Besides learning the parts
of animals and their habitats we’ll be doing a little work to show which
continents have certain animals. As
usual our art, music and other activities will reflect our mammal theme.
Field Trip
The school will be taking a field trip to
the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on Tuesday, May 27th,
from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Please
note that we will not be going on Friday, May 23, as we originally planned
because we could not get buses for that day.
The Elementary and Kindergarten class will participate in a 30 minute
Discovery Program. Children will need to bring a disposable sack lunch.
Please turn in the attached permission slip no later than May 9th.
Click here for your permission slip. We have to pre-pay for this
field trip 2 weeks in advance, so your timely return of the permission slip is
greatly appreciated!
School Picnic
A potluck picnic will again be held at Long
Lake Park on Friday, May 30th, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Children, parents, grandparents, siblings, and childcare givers are
welcome. On that day you will be
responsible to watch your own children and any other children you might bring.
There will be a sign-up list posted in each of the rooms so that we will
know how many will be attending and what you will be bringing.
The school will provide hot dogs and buns and ice cream.
Mother’
Day & Father’s Day Gifts
This year your child will be making a special present for
their Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts.
Your child’s artwork will be part of their special present to you.
The total cost for both gifts is $5.
We will be adding the cost of the gifts to your monthly tuition for the
month of May.
End of the year
Information
This month we
will be weighing and measuring your child and we will be sending home info on
his/her growth.
At the end of the school year we will be assessing the children and you
will receive a written report on your child (provided all fees are paid).
An end of the
year account statement will be given to each child.
Please keep a copy of it for your tax records as we will not be sending
you another for this time period.
We will be
sending home all spare clothes and slippers on your child’s last day of school
even if your child is planning to attend summer school.
This is a good time to check the slippers and clothes for wear, fit, and
appropriateness for warmer weather.
Summer Birthday’s
We will be celebrating summer birthdays
on May 29th for those children who will have birthday during the summer and will
not be in school.
Box Tops
We’d like to thank everybody for turning in box tops this
year. In just two months, we have
collected over $120. GREAT
JOB! We have mailed in our first
batch of box tops so you can track them on-line at www.boxtops4education.com.
Don’t forget so save your box tops this summer for next year.
We will send home box tops sheets at the end of this month so you can
continue to save them over the summer months.
If you are in summer school, we will continue to hand out prizes every
other Friday. Thank you for all
your hard work.
Summer School
Summer school this year will start on Monday, June 23rd
and continue until Friday, August 1st. It is a 6 consecutive weeks session. The fees are as follows:
Preschool -5 half days = $370, 5 full days = $685.
Kindergarten/Elementary -5 half days = $375.00, 5 full days =
$715. The tuition can be paid all at once or in two payments.
If your child is enrolled in a two or three day a week session you can
contact the office for your tuition amount.
Yearbooks
It’s
Yearbook Time Again!
Yearbooks will only be available through pre-sales this year.
You must pre-order, as extra copies will not be available. Yearbooks will be delivered the
last week of May.
Thank
You!
We
would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the volunteers that have
helped throughout the school year: the readers, chaperones, classroom helpers,
and speakers. Without you, our
program would not be as rich and fulfilling for the students or the staff.
Thank
you!
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
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