Winter is just a season away. Please keep in mind that all students participating in the Winter Sports Program this year will be REQUIRED to have helmets and goggles and there will be no daily rentals at the resort.
The PSA is working on potential discounts for MCS renters and will keep us updated. For now, please check out the list of Ski Swaps coming up.
Click here to see a list of upcoming ski swaps.
1. Pick up new pages to review on the credenza in the lobby.
2. Log into or register first, to www.scholastic.com. Once logged in, you will be asked for the
classroom code.
3. The classroom code for Montessori Community School is: HDLWT.
4. Follow the prompts to check out and you are done. Please remember that we will not submit
the entire order for the school, until the due date given each month.
Pizza Mondays will be starting Monday, August 31st. The first session will run from August 31st through December 14th, excluding September 7th when the school will be closed. A pizza lunch will include seasonal fruits and vegetables and your choice of pizza.
Please submit the completed form, with payment, to the office by Thursday, August 27th for your student to participate in the first Pizza Monday. Any changes to a pizza order must be made no later than the Thursday before the change is to take effect.
You may place an order at anytime between August 31st- December 14th, but please, prorate the amount the is due. All checks should be made payable to Montessori Community School or MCS.
Montessori Is Developmental
Peter Davidson
“Your children go to Montessori school? I heard that’s fine for preschoolers, but when they are older, won’t they need something different?”
I would guess that many of you have been asked questions similar to this on more than one occasion. It is an indication of the positive reputation Montessori enjoys as a preschool program, but also the relative lack of understanding of its relevance for older ages. It also asserts that older children need a different environment from the little ones. And indeed they do, which is why the Montessori elementary environment is designed so differently from that for the younger ages. What most of these people mean by “something different,” however, is the teacher-centered, one-size-fits-all conventional model of education in which they themselves grew up.
Two children in the Wasatch Lower Elementary Classroom using the microscope.
Lower Elementary students build a collage of materials seen through the microscope.
Lower Elementary students working on the Dynamic Addition Stamp Game.
Thank you to all the parents that joined us for the first Coffee Tuesday for the 2015-2016 school year! We had a wonderful turn out, lots of visiting among parents as well as several discussions of how we can work together to continue to make MCS an exciting and enthusiast community. A special thanks to the MCS staff for accommodating the group in setting up a lovely nook in the gym, and to Britney for providing various Montessori books and videos. Also, we greatly appreciate Bjorn’s Brews for supplying all the coffee, especially on short notice! We hope that you all can join us for the next Coffee Tuesday on October 6th.
-Annie Guerrero
Thanks to Bjorn’s Brews for providing our coffee!
Parents getting to know one another at our first Coffee Tuesday. This was a great opportunity to build community.
Thank you to all the parents that joined us for the first Coffee Tuesday for the 2015-2016 school year! We had a wonderful turn out, lots of visiting among parents as well as several discussions of how we can work together to continue to make MCS an exciting and enthusiast community. A special thanks to the MCS staff for accommodating the group in setting up a lovely nook in the gym, and to Britney for providing various Montessori books and videos. Also, we greatly appreciate Bjorn’s Brews for supplying all the coffee, especially on short notice! We hope that you all can join us for the next Coffee Tuesday on October 6th.
-Annie Guerrero
Thanks to Bjorn’s Brews for providing our coffee!
Parents getting to know one another at our first Coffee Tuesday. This was a great opportunity to build community.
Click here to download your MCS School Photo Form.
All forms should be submitted with payment attached by Thursday, September 10th.
Click here to download the Parent Volunteer Hours Form.
Click here to download a speech, hearing, and language screening form.
Montessori Community School will be holding speech and language screenings Thursday, September 10th. The screenings will be a general, brief measure of your child’s speech and language skills in order to determine if further speech and language evaluations are needed. Screenings are appropriate for students of all ages.
Please return form and check made payable to Let’s Talk should be submitted to MCS by Wednesday, September 9th.
The Speech and language screenings will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. After the completion of the screening, Let’s Talk will identify if there are concerns regarding your child’s speech and language skills. A note will be sent home with your child regarding the results of the screening assessments and if further assessment is warranted.
You might consider having your child’s speech and language screened if your child shows one or more of the following:
Your child has chronic ear infections.
You and others have a hard time understanding your child’s speech.
Your child’s speech is less intelligible than their peers.
Your child does not combine 2 – 5 words in their speech.
You suspect your child may have a fluency disorder: stuttering.
Your child has difficulty asking and answering “wh” questions.
Your child becomes easily frustrated when trying to tell you something.
Your child has a difficult time learning and using new concepts and vocabulary.
See www/letstalkspeech.com for more in-depth information on speech and language delay warning signs
