Birthday celebrations in March: Warm Birthday wishes for Daniel, William and Summer!
A friendly reminder to please sign in and sign out your child everyday with time and full legal signature. It is mandated by State licensing. A big thank you to all of you who are consistently doing it.
Important Message regarding using the mailbox parking for MIA school drop off and pick up. Please see attached document.
Important Dates:
March 10: Daylight Saving Time
March 20: Picture Day: Annual Picture Day with Nathan Photography
Please drop off your child/ren at school no later than 9:15 AM on picture day.
March 19/20: March Equinox, first day of Spring and Celebrating “Nowruz” Persian spring celebration!
March 29: School closed in observance of Good Friday/Easter Holiday.
Special Request to All TK and Kindergarten bound families:
It is bittersweet and hard to imagine, that time is coming close when we need to plan a date for celebrating MIA’s 2024 graduates over the summer. Please send me your last date with MIA latest by April 15, 2024. Thank you to the families who have already done so.
Parent/Teacher conferences week of April 15-19. Sign in times will be sent the first week of April. You will be able to pick a time slot for 20 minutes.
Help: We are looking for old National Geography magazines to further children’s experience in Geography. We will use them to cut out pictures of landforms to make, create landscapes. If you have any of them, please send them to us, we will really appreciate it.
MONTESSORI BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – A LOVELY CELEBRATION OF LIFE CEREMONY
Montessori birthday celebration gives a concrete way for young children to understand the months of the year and the earth’s revolution around the sun each year. It also is a way for children to feel special and to connect with their place in the world. To celebrate in class, we request parents to bring pictures of their child from each of his years and share important milestones at circle. A healthy snack for the group maybe be brought in to share. Some ideas for snack are small muffins(no cupcakes please), fresh fruit or crackers. Snack should be low in sugar.
Curriculum Updates: Children enjoyed making the dragon, lanterns along with having a musical parade. They have been learning about diversity at school, in community and in the world. They will be matching many skin colors, painting their own in art and creating faces with different kinds of hair: wavy, straight, curly, short, long, black, brown, light or dark, blonde, and eye colors. Diversity with people’s physical’s needs as well. The older children will learn to make doll outfits with patterned paper.
Students have been introduced to Physical sciences. The 3 states of Matter: Solid, liquid and gas. Many presentations to let students experience the different states are being done in class. Please see brightwheel daily postings for the same.
We will introduce “The Earth”: the layers of the earth: the crust, the mantle, outer core, and the inner core. Older students will paint and make their layers of the earth.
The Lyrics to the diversity song are as follows: It is available on YouTube
“ In this big, big world, there is only one me , ——–
So Many Colors, So Many Shapes | Diversity Song | The Singing Walrus
Celebrating cultural diversity. We will share books, wheat grass, eggs and talk about the significance of the traditional symbols. We are excited to bring it to the children as we celebrate diversity. Children will be introduced to Iran, a country in the Asian Continent and its culture. They are making the map, flag and learning about their food and traditional outfits.
Language: We will introduce the sounds of “p and q”. We play games like Rhyming words, I spy with my little eyes game, in addition to making booklets. We will use St. Patrick’s day symbols for whole hand transfer and pincer activities.
These games can also be played at home to reinforce any concept like colors, shapes, letter sounds or basic numbers.
Days of the week, months of the year and Calendar making work is also available to the children.
In Art, children will learn to make kites with using metal insets, collage, watercolors and paper lions.
In Practical life, lots of green shapes to practice whole hand transfer, dry and wet pouring.
Spanish: Afternoon circle is done in Spanish. Every concept and lesson in the morning circle is done in Spanish to introduce the same vocabulary.