Thursday, October 13, 2016
Dear Parents,
One of my favorite
times of the year is fast approaching! Conferences will be held Wednesday,
October 26 and Thursday, October 27 from 12:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. I will also be
offering conferences on Monday, October 24and Tuesday, October 25 from 7:00
a.m.-8:30 a.m. Students will be released at 12:30 p.m. on October 26 and 27 and
there is no school on Friday, October 28. Parents now have the ability to schedule conference
times online. The Conference Scheduler is available starting tomorrow.
Scheduling early offers you the opportunity to secure conference times that
work best for your family. Please visit the online scheduler at: www.asdk12.org/parents. You will need to find my name and go
to mix and you will find my schedule. If you are not able to use the online
system please call or email. I look
forward to meeting with you all and celebrating your child’s progress.
I am
also excited about our upcoming scheduled field trips! On Thursday, November 3
we will be walking to the Performing Arts Center to see Alaska Junior Theater’s
musical of “The Lightning Thief” from 9:30-noon. On Tuesday, November 8 we will
be walking to the Apple Store to make an i-movie. We will be leave about 10:00
and return at about noon. Finally, on Thursday, December 1 we will return to
the Performing Arts Center to see Alaska Junior Theaters “360 All Stars”. We
will leave at 9:30 and return about noon. I have sent home the permission slip
for “The Lightning Thief “ in today’s folder. As you will notice on the form
there is a section that asks if you would like to provide a scholarship. Here
at Denali Montessori, all students are invited on field trips whether they can
afford it or not. I believe that field trips are an important part of a child’s
education. Last year at the primary level we were short over $400 in field trip
money. In the past, teachers made up this difference. Now that the district
requires our wonderful administrative assistant, Ms. Woods, handle all monies,
the burden of short funds falls on our PTSA. We will be selling popcorn after
school and other fundraisers throughout the year to provide for these
scholarships, but your donations will also go to fund Denali Montessori
students going on these fabulous learning opportunities. Thank you for your
support!
While
we are on the topic of field trips, I wanted to let you know about the
responsibilities of the students on our outings. Each child has been told this
before we go on each trip, but I wanted you to know my policy as well. Each
child is responsible to follow the instructions of the chaperones and teacher
on every field trip. It is my responsibility to keep the students safe. We
walk, take buses, or drive to all our field trips and it is vital that they are
being safe in all those situations. It is also the responsibility of the child,
to be respectful and kind on the field trip. When we go out in the public, we
are representing Denali Montessori, Room 177, you, and myself. We need to show that Denali Montessori students
are respectful and kind at all times on field trips. If the student isn’t being
safe or listening to the adults and being safe or is not showing respect and
kindness, the student will be required to have his or her parent attend the
next field trip. If the parent can’t attend, the child will have to stay in a
classroom at Denali while we are on the trip. I don’t expect any of this to
happen, but if it does these are the consequences. During our first field trip
of the year to the museum, the students were all safe and were all very well
behaved and that is what I expect.
The
Denali Fall Carnival is on Friday, October 28 from 7:00-8:30. Please join us
for music, games, and a lot of fun. If you are able to donate a cake for the
cakewalk, it will be greatly appreciated.
If
you have not done so, you can access all future newsletters and pictures at http://denalimontessori177.blogspot.com/. If you type in your email in the box
on the right hand corner, you will automatically receive an email when I have
added anything. Thank you again to Mr. Horning for putting this together for
me!
This week has been an incredible week of learning
adjectives, fractions, money, writing, reading, timed math facts, math
operations and facts, compound words, forces of attraction experiment in
science, 3 dimensional shapes in geometry, and more. I’m exhausted just thinking
about it.
Next week’s spelling test will be on Thursday, October
20 as there is no school next Friday, October 21 due to the In-service Day.
Sincerely,
Craig Moyer
