Another ending…

Summertime, and the living is easy…

We have a few short days left together before the year wraps up and we scatter across the summer season. Here’s an update of our final upcoming events. Make sure to check with your child’s teacher with questions.

• Thursday May  24      BEACH DAY!

Parents are welcomed and encouraged to join us for this wonderful day at Point Louisa. This is the point at the very end of Auke Rec. Join us for a great day looking for whales, sea stars, double uglies, and hanging with great friends in a great land. We’ll leave school by bus at about 8:45 am and return by the end of day. Please join us.

• Friday May 25              Fun Run

We’ll be joining our friends from Harborview on Friday. This is a staggered start and we don’t have exact start time yet but generally younger  children begin earlier than older children. Saunter or sprint with us along Glacier Avenue.

• Monday May 28         Memorial Day – No School

• Tuesday May 29         Passage Ceremony

This is our wonderful sending off of children as they move from childhood to adolescence (6th graders!), while the 3rd graders will take a”Walk About” on their way to upper el. and the 8th graders will commence – a leaving of Montessori and a beginning of their older teenage years. Everyone is welcomed and invited to attend. Festivities begin at 1 pm in the Marie Drake gym for this sweet occasion.

• Wednesday May 30  Last Day of School for Montessori Borealis

Our elementary and adolescent students end school on Wednesday. Other elementary schools end on Thursday – but this is because they took a a “teacher work day” in November while we did not.

• Thursday  May 31 Teacher Work Day NO SCHOOL

• Friday June 1 Teacher Work Day NO SCHOOL

“The play’s the thing” and Our Great Land

• Join the upper elementary tonight for their end-of-year performance in the Drake gym. Call for actors is 6 p.m. The play begins at 6:30. 

Please – no adults upstairs before the play.  Find your seats and anticipate the wonderful work of the children!

• Smoked salmon, fiddleheads, blueberries, raspberries, salmon berries, Nagoon berries, rhubarb, black cod, sushi, seaweeds, miners lettuce, wild wood violets….

Tomorrow is our local food day. All the classes will be preparing a local food to eat  and share – BUT  - we are inviting the children to bring a local food for lunch as well.  Tuck a few frozen berries from last year’s harvest into some good yogurt, smear some creme cheese with your smoked salmon or cod or halibut, pick a few yummy fresh fiddleheads, or wild violets and toss with miners lettuce for a small and tasty fresh local salad… The value and taste  of our local foods is beyond all measure.

Play and Partake!

Thursday and Friday our own adolescents are performing the Hamlet Thrillameggedon. Come on by for a parody and all good fun. They have organized the whole event from top to bottom! 

 

Upper el. is requesting any baked goods you can send in tomorrow or Friday. The children are raising money during the AMP intermissions to support their performance next week!

 

Remember the 4th and 5th years are “Going to College” tomorrow/Thursday!

Be an Elder in the Room

Walking in our ancestors’ footsteps (and their clothing!)

It’s that time of year when we round to the end near where we began. The wisdom of the first days of school culminates with the experiences and shared history of the 12 year olds as they share their Ancestor Projects.

Please join us for this always special and inspiring event this Thursday, May 3  at 5:30 pm in the Montessori Borealis Commons (and AMP space). Your presences and support for these growing humans is kindly requested and encouraged.

Our children need us.

Flower (& Fruit) Power!

Purple and Pink and Peach and Plum and Pumpkin and Puce and Pine…Oh, My!

It is time for our Montessori community Pansy and Viola Sale!

Order beautiful flowers for your garden, for Mother’s Day, for the Pioneer Home or for a secret May Day gift (remember the tradition of secretly giving a neighbor or friend flowers on their porch or door on the first day of May).

Flowers come in 4inch [pots, are local and hardened off. The cost is $2.50 per pot. Order forms went home last week with your child, but you can also order on line at: http://www.juneaumontessori.org/PansyFundraiser.html

Rhubarb and And Jams… Oh, My!

All year the elementary and adolescent students have been at work with two grants aimed at helping us understand botany, good eating habits, and gardening.  We are nearing the conclusion of these projects but…have run out of enough local goods to help us with our last project: baking a shared edible.

Will you check your freezers for last season’s rhubarb and any berries? We are also looking for local jams, jellies, and syrups that can be used in this project.

If you have any of these wonderful goods – please send them in with your child. No contributions too small!

 

Monday April 23 is an Early Release Monday.

 

Save the date: The Ancestor Project is coming up next week – Thurs. May 3 at 5:30.

We hope to see you there at this cool and amazing evening presented by the 6th graders and it will be a remarkable evening!

Spread the Word! This Week!

Concentration. Responsibility. Freedom. Intellect. Heart. Respect. Work. Humanity. Life.

Remember when you were interested in Montessori for the first time? These words or others like them were likely some of the reasons your attention was turned our way. You are our best ambassadors for this special school experience for your family.

This Thursday and Saturday we are hosting  our annual public information meetings for prospective Montessori Borealis families. If you know a family interested in Montessori education for their elementary or adolescent child – please invite them to one of our meetings this week to learn if Montessori Borealis is a good fit for their families.

The meetings will address Montessori philosophy, curriculum, enrollment procedures, questions, and observations. We are excited to share our passion for this work with children.

Help make these words live in all children.

Thursday March  29 5:30 pm                                                         the Montessori Borealis Commons

Saturday March 31 10 am                                                                 the Montessori Borealis Commons

This is an adult-only event as we want to give parents our undivided attention.

For more information have folks call the Montessori Borealis office at 523-1848 or contact Chris.

Help Spread the Great Word about Montessori as a choice for all families!

Ski Day Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we pack up the whole kit and caboodle and head up the hill to Eaglecrest!

We are looking forward to hugely good time. Here is some important information and important reminders so that we can all be where we need to be and do what it is that needs doing to keep the good ship Montessori Borealis forging ahead tomorrow.

• Please review the Rule of Respect as a family.Not only will this prepare your child for a considerate and good time – a little chat and review is a good reminder that we are all representing our school in public. Working together with care and respect creates an experience  where all will be fun and good.

• For those of you arriving without / before the school contingent – EVERYONE MUST MEET IN THE LODGE AT 9:30 sharp.

• Children and parents meeting at school, please come at the normal beginning of the day – 8:30 and we will meet in classrooms.

• Eat well, be healthy! Bring a large lunch and big snack. Elementary children are not to bring money or have food purchased for them. Do not bring microwavable food and there is no hot water available for us.

See you on the hill!