Montessori Moments = Events Calendar + What’s Happening: 7/28/23
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Connection and Community….
We are happy to be partnering with New Light Baptist Church for National Night Out which is an annual community-police awareness-raising event, on Tuesday, August 1st from 6:00-8:30 p.m. The development and maintenance of positive relationships between a community and the police seems to be the primary focus of this event. Gun management is also a critical need and directly related to the safety of our neighborhood children and families.
Although the school cannot speak for each Central staff member, we have historically advocated for reasonable gun management policies. Please take a moment to read the information below and imagine a way that you might be part of the solution.
This data is not recent. We can extrapolate that the numbers of child victims of gun violence in and out of school are even more dire.
Pew Research - Gun Deaths Among US Kids Rose 50% in Two Years
CNN - More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities
Below is an excerpt from a message Anita sent out to our school community in 2019.
In my opinion, it is disingenuous for politicians to call upon teachers to protect children in school. Armed trained police are not able to protect themselves in police stations. Military personal are not able to protect themselves on military bases. An armed, trained army sniper was not able to protect himself at a Texas shooting range. Police and military in heavily armed venues have been killed by shooters. Presidents of the United States of America have been shot while surrounded by highly trained, well armed, secret service agents. As we have sadly learned, safety drills, armed school resource officers, and police cannot protect children.
We need a societal change. We hope to promote, in our small way, conversations that will help our nation realize the goal of disrupting the PATTERN of school violence and our social acceptance of these events that are so terribly alarming.
Central Montessori School does not take a position on gun ownership. We advocate for safe schools for children and teachers which are anchored to the community. The action items below are reasonable and can be implemented within established protocols.
Mental Health Care for Children
Schools with appropriate funding can
Gun Reform
With political will these items can be realized and implemented
Please Note: Millions of people deal with mental illness. They live full lives and contribute to our society in positive ways. Very few act out by killing people. Some shooters have not been identified as mentally ill.
The table below provides research information indicating which mitigation efforts might be effective in reducing gun violence and childhood deaths.
Mitigation Effort
Might Help
(mixed results)
Helpful?
Older age requirements to buy guns
Yes
Ban on buying large -capacity magazines or ammunition-feeding devices for semiautomatic weapons
Yes
Licensing process
Yes
Background checks
Yes
Open carry/more guns = more deaths by guns
No
More police on campus and more drills
No
Take guns away for a time
Yes
Funding for research
Yes
We appreciate your participation and support of this effort.
Of course, we hope that you will join us for our National Night Out event and if so inclined, reach out to your elected representative and tell them that we need their help. If you need help finding your current elected officials, please use this website for a list!
Central will assign a V Hour for each contact you make to an elected official.
Events Calendar
Even though COVID may not continue to create major disruptions to our school calendar events and dates, please know that all dates are tentative.
Montessori Moments Events Calendar
September 2023: School Year 2023-2024 Begins! Go, Buzz Bees, Go!
Parent & Teacher Conferences: Infant/Toddler and Preprimary
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Upper Elementary
18-22 Infant and Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences
21-22 International Day of Peace: Teachers and Students Observe
22 Primary PIN Event (What for Info)
25-29 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences
What’s Happening?
Infant & Toddler
A pint sized archeology professor (toddler) sits on the mulch, surrounded by a group of students, eager to participate in this daily workshop from the worm-excavating master. The “professor” uses their foot to break into the mulch, creating a circle of exposed dirt. Using two hands, they frantically dig into the dirt, scraping away handful after handful of mulch and dirt until they find the “artifact” they’re looking for….a real, live worm! Carefully picking it up and placing it in their palm, the “professor” holds it out for the group to see. “Worm!” the group shouts, almost in unison. One observer, eager to get their hands in the dirt themselves, follows the proper method of plopping down into the mulch, using a foot to start their dig, and then gets straight to the messy work of digging for artifacts (worms). Seeing their protégée following all the proper steps, the “professor” sits back, claps, and laughs with delight.
Primary B
During group time, the children talk about ways in which they have the power to help keep their classmates healthy. They each take turns either watching their friends work while keeping their hands by their side and their bodies “nice and straight” (less surface contact) or walking through the classroom with their hands behind their back. The adult thanks each one of them for their efforts and they move on to lunch. Later in the day, two children play a rhyming game. “Bring me something in the classroom that rhymes with tower.” The children think through possible options. “Flower!” one of them exclaims. They walk around, locate a flower, set it in the fetching basket and present it. They continue this game until one of them gets called to the pick up gate.
Pre-Primary
A student enters the classroom, restores their bags and looks around with a furrowed brow. The student is using one finger to point at each letter of their name written above their hook. The child says, “I’m trying to spell my name.” With a bit of help, the child slowly says the name of each letter symbol in their name as they move their finger across the letters. The child repeats the sound each letter makes and then flashes a huge grin before heading off to wash their hands before getting started with their day!
Primary A
As calm music plays, students get their rugs, unroll them, and sit calmly. A student who wants to be a volunteer movement and mindfulness teacher starts doing a butterfly pose. Their friends open their legs and touch foot with foot, they are quiet and pretend to fly too. Students stand up on one foot trying to balance their body and raise their arms as high as possible for Volcano Poise. They count one to ten after they are ready for the next position. Another child leads now and the group start by laying down on their back. Soon they lift their legs up and move them up and down to the count of five. The next position is The Alligator. All the students lay down on their tummy and lift their heads. What a great way to move inside on a really hot day.
Elementary & Middle School
Eight students are participating in a Capoeira lesson (Brazilian martial arts). They are learning the important vocabulary and chants and are accompanied by a tamborine. Special thanks to our parent volunteer for coming in weekly to lead our Capoeira lessons! It’s a summertime time tuesday which can only mean one thing…..Tacos! Four students prepare their infamous taco recipe! Tomatoes are being chopped and they practice speaking en Español while prepping, “las tomates y las cebollas”. After the martial arts lesson, the chefs start inviting up students to have their afternoon taco snack! Buen provecho!
Primary C
Three children are using the equilaterial triangle box. They are tracing and cutting out the smaller triangles that they use to build a larger equalitaeral triangle. Other friends move closer to watch the lesson and the students’ careful work as they trace, cut, and glue the isoscolese, scalene, and smaller (baby) equilateral triangles onto black paper to make mini posters. A group of children are using the sandpaper letters to practice their very first cursive writing strokes. After their ‘car’ fingers are able to stay on the sandpaper letter ‘roads’ without wrecking, they use a marker board and finally paper to trace and copy these beautiful letters. Two of the children realize that some of these letters are in their own names!
Central’s Little Free Library and Pantry
Thanks for helping us give back to our neighbors. A neighbor who depends on this pantry for food has posted a request on the pantry asking that donations include food containers that someone without a home, kitchen, or can opener can manage. We ask that donations contain only foods within the expiration date. All foods should be as healthy as possible. We can do this!
Month of Giving
Books for Little Free Library & Food for Little Free Pantry
Please feel free to send your donations in with your child. Individual classrooms will collect these items and the front office will manage them. Older students will help us keep our pantries stocked with your generous gifts. Your child (and our neighborhood community) benefits from your modeling of giving to others. It inspires them and helps them see how they themselves can help others. This is a very big deal.
Month Classroom
September Upper Elementary
October Middle School
Your emails are important to us. If you need to communicate with Central, please generate a new email with a label in the subject line. Central does not monitor this email for responses. Please do not respond to this message.
Connection and Community….
We are happy to be partnering with New Light Baptist Church for National Night Out which is an annual community-police awareness-raising event, on Tuesday, August 1st from 6:00-8:30 p.m. The development and maintenance of positive relationships between a community and the police seems to be the primary focus of this event. Gun management is also a critical need and directly related to the safety of our neighborhood children and families.
Although the school cannot speak for each Central staff member, we have historically advocated for reasonable gun management policies. Please take a moment to read the information below and imagine a way that you might be part of the solution.
This data is not recent. We can extrapolate that the numbers of child victims of gun violence in and out of school are even more dire.
Pew Research - Gun Deaths Among US Kids Rose 50% in Two Years
CNN - More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities
Below is an excerpt from a message Anita sent out to our school community in 2019.
In my opinion, it is disingenuous for politicians to call upon teachers to protect children in school. Armed trained police are not able to protect themselves in police stations. Military personal are not able to protect themselves on military bases. An armed, trained army sniper was not able to protect himself at a Texas shooting range. Police and military in heavily armed venues have been killed by shooters. Presidents of the United States of America have been shot while surrounded by highly trained, well armed, secret service agents. As we have sadly learned, safety drills, armed school resource officers, and police cannot protect children.
We need a societal change. We hope to promote, in our small way, conversations that will help our nation realize the goal of disrupting the PATTERN of school violence and our social acceptance of these events that are so terribly alarming.
Central Montessori School does not take a position on gun ownership. We advocate for safe schools for children and teachers which are anchored to the community. The action items below are reasonable and can be implemented within established protocols.
Mental Health Care for Children
Schools with appropriate funding can
- Establish bully prevention training for all teachers before certification
- Provide pediatric screening for childhood depression
- Create smaller middle and high schools
Gun Reform
With political will these items can be realized and implemented
- Background checks for all gun sales
- No guns before 21
- Reduce size of magazine clips capacity
- Stop sales of automatic and semiautomatic weapons/firearms
- National registration of firearms
Please Note: Millions of people deal with mental illness. They live full lives and contribute to our society in positive ways. Very few act out by killing people. Some shooters have not been identified as mentally ill.
The table below provides research information indicating which mitigation efforts might be effective in reducing gun violence and childhood deaths.
Mitigation Effort
Might Help
(mixed results)
Helpful?
Older age requirements to buy guns
Yes
Ban on buying large -capacity magazines or ammunition-feeding devices for semiautomatic weapons
Yes
Licensing process
Yes
Background checks
Yes
Open carry/more guns = more deaths by guns
No
More police on campus and more drills
No
Take guns away for a time
Yes
Funding for research
Yes
We appreciate your participation and support of this effort.
Of course, we hope that you will join us for our National Night Out event and if so inclined, reach out to your elected representative and tell them that we need their help. If you need help finding your current elected officials, please use this website for a list!
Central will assign a V Hour for each contact you make to an elected official.
Events Calendar
Even though COVID may not continue to create major disruptions to our school calendar events and dates, please know that all dates are tentative.
Montessori Moments Events Calendar
September 2023: School Year 2023-2024 Begins! Go, Buzz Bees, Go!
Parent & Teacher Conferences: Infant/Toddler and Preprimary
Month of Giving to Free Little Library and Food Pantry: Upper Elementary
18-22 Infant and Toddler Parent & Teacher Conferences
21-22 International Day of Peace: Teachers and Students Observe
22 Primary PIN Event (What for Info)
25-29 Preprimary Parent & Teacher Conferences
What’s Happening?
Infant & Toddler
A pint sized archeology professor (toddler) sits on the mulch, surrounded by a group of students, eager to participate in this daily workshop from the worm-excavating master. The “professor” uses their foot to break into the mulch, creating a circle of exposed dirt. Using two hands, they frantically dig into the dirt, scraping away handful after handful of mulch and dirt until they find the “artifact” they’re looking for….a real, live worm! Carefully picking it up and placing it in their palm, the “professor” holds it out for the group to see. “Worm!” the group shouts, almost in unison. One observer, eager to get their hands in the dirt themselves, follows the proper method of plopping down into the mulch, using a foot to start their dig, and then gets straight to the messy work of digging for artifacts (worms). Seeing their protégée following all the proper steps, the “professor” sits back, claps, and laughs with delight.
Primary B
During group time, the children talk about ways in which they have the power to help keep their classmates healthy. They each take turns either watching their friends work while keeping their hands by their side and their bodies “nice and straight” (less surface contact) or walking through the classroom with their hands behind their back. The adult thanks each one of them for their efforts and they move on to lunch. Later in the day, two children play a rhyming game. “Bring me something in the classroom that rhymes with tower.” The children think through possible options. “Flower!” one of them exclaims. They walk around, locate a flower, set it in the fetching basket and present it. They continue this game until one of them gets called to the pick up gate.
Pre-Primary
A student enters the classroom, restores their bags and looks around with a furrowed brow. The student is using one finger to point at each letter of their name written above their hook. The child says, “I’m trying to spell my name.” With a bit of help, the child slowly says the name of each letter symbol in their name as they move their finger across the letters. The child repeats the sound each letter makes and then flashes a huge grin before heading off to wash their hands before getting started with their day!
Primary A
As calm music plays, students get their rugs, unroll them, and sit calmly. A student who wants to be a volunteer movement and mindfulness teacher starts doing a butterfly pose. Their friends open their legs and touch foot with foot, they are quiet and pretend to fly too. Students stand up on one foot trying to balance their body and raise their arms as high as possible for Volcano Poise. They count one to ten after they are ready for the next position. Another child leads now and the group start by laying down on their back. Soon they lift their legs up and move them up and down to the count of five. The next position is The Alligator. All the students lay down on their tummy and lift their heads. What a great way to move inside on a really hot day.
Elementary & Middle School
Eight students are participating in a Capoeira lesson (Brazilian martial arts). They are learning the important vocabulary and chants and are accompanied by a tamborine. Special thanks to our parent volunteer for coming in weekly to lead our Capoeira lessons! It’s a summertime time tuesday which can only mean one thing…..Tacos! Four students prepare their infamous taco recipe! Tomatoes are being chopped and they practice speaking en Español while prepping, “las tomates y las cebollas”. After the martial arts lesson, the chefs start inviting up students to have their afternoon taco snack! Buen provecho!
Primary C
Three children are using the equilaterial triangle box. They are tracing and cutting out the smaller triangles that they use to build a larger equalitaeral triangle. Other friends move closer to watch the lesson and the students’ careful work as they trace, cut, and glue the isoscolese, scalene, and smaller (baby) equilateral triangles onto black paper to make mini posters. A group of children are using the sandpaper letters to practice their very first cursive writing strokes. After their ‘car’ fingers are able to stay on the sandpaper letter ‘roads’ without wrecking, they use a marker board and finally paper to trace and copy these beautiful letters. Two of the children realize that some of these letters are in their own names!
Central’s Little Free Library and Pantry
Thanks for helping us give back to our neighbors. A neighbor who depends on this pantry for food has posted a request on the pantry asking that donations include food containers that someone without a home, kitchen, or can opener can manage. We ask that donations contain only foods within the expiration date. All foods should be as healthy as possible. We can do this!
Month of Giving
Books for Little Free Library & Food for Little Free Pantry
Please feel free to send your donations in with your child. Individual classrooms will collect these items and the front office will manage them. Older students will help us keep our pantries stocked with your generous gifts. Your child (and our neighborhood community) benefits from your modeling of giving to others. It inspires them and helps them see how they themselves can help others. This is a very big deal.
Month Classroom
September Upper Elementary
October Middle School
