Thanksgiving at EWMS
Each year, EWMS celebrates Thanksgiving in a big way. The elementary children participated in baking and cooking, and the two EC classes came together to share a meal in Class 1. Thank you very much to the myriad parents who helped out with cutting, mixing, roasting, serving, and cleaning up, and to the teachers who made it all possible. We all have so much to be thankful for!
Did you know…
Multi-age groupings found in traditional Montessori schools are integral to the Montessori method. In multi-age groupings, children learn from one another; younger children learn higher-level cognitive and social skills by emulating their older classmates and older children act as guides for their younger classmates, helping them solidify their own learning, develop their personalities, and internalize the value in collaboration and cooperation.
Children remain together in a group for three years. This allows them and their teachers to know one another well and helps avoid the stress of new teachers, rules, classmates, and expectations each fall. Additionally, teachers get to know the children’s strength and weaknesses, learning styles, likes and dislikes, making it easier for teachers to customize what they do with each child.
Spontaneous, heterogeneous groupings occur in multi-age classrooms further instilling the value in collaborative and cooperative learning.
To learn more about this, talk to your child’s teacher, or sign up to attend “The Silent Journey” on February 6th.
Geography Information Systems Day
On November 18, Quinn, Michelle Woods, and Amy Dwyer attended the Annual GIS Day held at the
Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover. Designed for fifth-graders, the day was filled with activities and games that involved “applying geographical perspective to life situations by showing relationships of people places and environments, and aiding decision making in business, government, education and the culture at large.”
Needed
Danika, the art teacher, is in need of newspapers for art room use. As she will be doing papier maché with some of the children, she is especially interested in the New York Times, (which works best for papier maché although any newspaper will do in a pinch).
Fundraising News
The Silpada Jewelry sale drew to a close today. As soon as we know how well we did, we will let you know! Thank you for supporting this fundraiser! Thank you, too, to Carrie Saathoff, who made it possible, and to Marie Cox, who hosted the Mom’s night out. Remember, if you still have your catalog and/or order forms, they can be returned to school.
Did you know that iTunes, eBay, Apple, Dell, and Amazon.com are all available through escrip? Remember, it costs you nothing extra to make your on-line purchases through excrip, but, once you’re signed up, every purchase you thereafter make helps the school!
Annual Fund Update To date, we have received $8,130 for the Annual fund and $1,275 for the Special Teacher’s Fund. Thank you all for helping this school.
Parking
Please refrain from parking in the apartment parking lot across from the playground. Bethel Villa’s management will be strictly enforcing a “tenants only” parking policy effective immediately.
Open House Season
This is the time of year when families begin looking for schools for their children. EWMS Open Houses are scheduled on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, so the upcoming Open Houses are next Tuesday, November, 17th, December 1st and 15th, and January 5th and 19th. As in years past, we will be offering a discount off the coming year’s tuition to any current family who refers a newly-enrolling family to the school. As an added bonus, we will be waiving the application fee for any new family that attends a December or January Open House. Help us spread the word: EWMS will benefit, you will benefit, and new families will benefit, too!
Green Garden Club Longwood Trip
The Green Garden Club will be heading to Longwood Gardens after school on Wednesday, December 9. If you want the group rate, return the attached form with payment by TOMORROW.
Music Notes
Attached here is a description of what goes on in your child’s music class each week!
Assembly Line On Friday, November 20, 2009, we were all mesmerized by Nisha Jhankaar, a Dance Choreographer (Bollywood-style), who talked to us about Indian culture and dance before having us dance along with her. We loved learning how to make our hands into flowers and our arms into snakes and trees! At the end of the assembly, we all received a bindi, which was the piece de resistance.
Yoga Show Off
Next Tuesday, Yoga with Veena draws to a close. All of the children who have participated in the program will be attending the 3:00 – 4:00 session, which will be the last true class, and will include a rehearsal for the 4:00 “Show Off” for their parents. Please plan to attend the 4:00 session so you can see all that your children and their schoolmates have learned in this class.
Veena plans to head to Friendly’s afterwards and we hope many or our families will join her and other staff members there!
Friendly’s Night Out
Next Tuesday, December 8, 2009, the Elementary Workshop Montessori School will benefit from Friendly Restaurant’s Family Night fundraiser: 10% of the restaurant’s till from 5:00 – 9:00 PM will be donated to EWMS. You need not tell the server you’re with the school or present a coupon; just show up for dinner or an ice cream treat. This is really easy! Ask your colleagues, friends, alumni families (you know who you are!), basketball teams, and neighbors to eat out at Friendly’s at 2670 Kirkwood Highway between 5:00 and 9:00 PM on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
Parent Business to benefit EWMS
Krista Schulte (Kayla G., EI), an EWMS alumna and Licensed Massage Therapist at Natural Therapies in Wilmington, is offering one-hour massages for $75.00. She will donate $20.00 from each massage to EWMS. (One offer per parent, please.) Call 302-429-7283, option #1, to schedule your appointment.
Alumni Update Daniel Frawley a fifth grader at Brandywine Springs made honor roll in the first marking period.
In November, Maren Moore was inducted into the National Honor Society at Mount Pleasant High School. Samara Rafert is a writer living in Columbus, OH. Kyla Rafert, an artist and arts teacher, is at the Women’s Studio Workshop near Kingston, NY. Jesse Rafert lives, works, and is finishing an undergraduate degree in Paris, France. Ben Hasty and Maureen Looney welcomed Nora Elizabeth Hasty on November 6, 2009. Sam Callender works for FedEx at their corporate Headquarters in Memphis. He is in an MBA program at the University of Memphis. Joe Callender is a student at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, UT.
together to share a meal in Class 1. Thank you very much to the myriad parents who helped out with cutting, mixing, roasting, serving, and cleaning up, and to the teachers who made it all possible. We all have so much to be thankful for!
On Friday, November 20, 2009, we were all mesmerized by Nisha Jhankaar, a Dance Choreographer (Bollywood-style), who talked to us about Indian culture and dance before having us dance along with her. We loved learning how to make our hands into flowers and our arms into snakes and trees! At the end of the assembly, we all received a bindi, which was the piece de resistance.
Next Tuesday, December 8, 2009, the Elementary Workshop Montessori School will benefit from Friendly Restaurant’s Family Night fundraiser: 10% of the restaurant’s till from 5:00 – 9:00 PM will be donated to EWMS. You need not tell the server you’re with the school or present a coupon; just show up for dinner or an ice cream treat. This is really easy! Ask your colleagues, friends, alumni families (you know who you are!), basketball teams, and neighbors to eat out at Friendly’s at 2670 Kirkwood Highway between 5:00 and 9:00 PM on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
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