Denali Montessori ~ Room 177

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Dear Parents,

Thank you to all who were able to attend the Peace Concert and make donations to The Malawi Children’s Village! Your support has raised over $2,100 to support this wonderful cause. Thank you.

Here is a list of our scheduled field trips at this time. (Look closely, there are two new ones) Friday, April 28 we will walk to the Pioneer School House for a tour from 12:30-3:00. On Wednesday, May 3 we will walk to the Performing Arts Center to see the Asian Cultural Performance. We will leave the school at 9:15 and should return at about 11:45. Friday, May 5 we will need drivers to take us to Bartlett High School for orienteering from 11:30-1:30. Wednesday, May 10 we will once again need drivers to take us to the Alaska Native Heritage Center for Preview Day. We will leave the school at 9:30 and return at about 1:30. Wednesday, May 17 we will need drivers to take us to West High Pool for the Kids Don’t Float pool session. We will leave the school at 12:30 and return at 2:30. Tuesday, May 23 we will be taking a bus to the Eagle River Nature Center to take a hike and have a picnic lunch on the river in what should be about perfect weather at 75 degrees and sunny. (I’m optimistic) The last day of school, Wednesday, May 24 we will have our annual Primary Wing Barbecue at Valley of the Moon Park from 10:00-2:30. This will be a walking field trip. Put these dates on your calendar and we would love to have you join us if possible. I have sent the permission slip for the Asian Cultural Performance and the Alaska Native Heritage Center in today’s folder. I have also sent home permission slips to individual students who have not returned the ones previously sent. Please return these permission slips as soon as possible. I will not make phone calls to get permission for any of the field trips. I will send up to 3 permission slips home with a child. It is the child and parents’ responsibility to return them. We have enough chaperones for the next week’s trip to the Pioneer School House on the 28^th. We are rather short on drivers for our orienteering trip on Friday, May 5. I appreciate your gift of time to make all these trips possible.

One more important event is our 3^rd Grade Recognition Ceremony in which we send our 3^rdgraders with a big thank you and good luck in the future. This event scheduled for Friday, May 12 at 11:15.

The students and I are battling a tough case of “Spring Fever” with all this beautiful weather, but they have been engaging in a nice work cycle this week and I am enjoying working with them. We have been studying numbers and operations, math operations and facts, grammar, writing, spelling, writing friendly letters, predators and prey, ecosystems, adaptations, animal and continent research, the life cycle of a butterfly (We have caterpillars!) and more. It’s been a great week!

The students are really having a tough time with the fact that there will be no more homework sent home the remainder of the year. I encourage students to continue reading and practice math facts, but there will not be any more spelling. Thanks.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at moyer_craig@asdk12.org or call or write me a note.

Sincerely,

Craig Moyer

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Dear Parents,

Tonight is the Denali Peace Concert! Please join us from 6:30-8:00 for music, a cake auction, information about our sister school in Malawi, and more. It should be a great evening for a great cause!

Here is a list of our scheduled field trips at this time. On Thursday, April 20 we will be walking to The Performing Arts Center to see Alaska Junior Theater’s “The Tree and the Donkey Who Could Sing” from 9:30-11:45. Chaperones please meet in Room 177 by 9:00. Friday, April 28 we will walk to the Pioneer School House for a tour from 12:30-3:00. Friday, May 5 we will need drivers to take us to Bartlett High School for orienteering from 11:30-1:30. Tuesday, May 23 we will be taking a bus to the Eagle River Nature Center to take a hike and have a picnic lunch on the river in what should be about perfect weather at 75 degrees and sunny. (I’m optimistic) The last day of school, Wednesday, May 24 we will have our annual Primary Wing Barbecue at Valley of the Moon Park from 10:00-2:30. This will be a walking field trip. Put these dates on your calendar and we would love to have you join us if possible. I have sent home the permission slip (purple) for the Junior Theater trip in the last two week’s folder and today's, the permission slip (blue) for the Pioneer School House in last week’s and today’s and I am sending the permission slip (green) for the orienteering field trip to Bartlett on May 5 in today's folder. Please return these permission slips as soon as possible. I will not make phone calls to get permission for any of the field trips. I will send up to 3 permission slips home with a child. It is the child and parents’ responsibility to return them. We have enough chaperones for the next week, but I have only one confirmed chaperone for our trip to the Pioneer School House on the 28^th.

One more important event is our 3^rd Grade Recognition Ceremony in which we send our 3^rdgraders with a big thank you and good luck in the future. This event scheduled for Friday, May 12 at 11:15. 3^rd grade parents please let me know if this date and time does not work for you as soon as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at moyer_craig@asdk12.org or call or write me a note.

Sincerely,

Craig Moyer

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Dear Parents,

The children are raising money for our sister school in Malawi, Africa. This is the Malawi Children’s Village. It is a place for children who were orphaned in Africa. We have added to the building of a school, latrines so the girls could go to school, books, chairs, and paper. This year we are raising money to build teacher housing on campus. If you would like to donate (certainly not required) please send donations in an envelope marked MCV.

Thursday, April 13 is the Denali Peace Concert. Please join us from 6:30-8:00 for music, a cake auction, information about our sister school in Malawi, and more. It should be a great evening for a great cause.

One more important event is our 3^rd Grade Recognition Ceremony in which we send our 3^rd graders with a big thank you and good luck in the future. I have had a request to have this event scheduled for Friday, May 12 at 11:15. 3^rd grade parents please let me know if this date and time does not work for you as soon as possible.

The students have settled back into a nice work cycle this week. We have been studying numbers and operations, math operations and facts, grammar, writing, spelling, writing friendly letters, predators and prey, dissecting an owl pellet to examine its prey, animal and continent research, and more. It’s been a great week!

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at moyer_craig@asdk12.org or call or write me a note.

Sincerely,

Craig Moyer

Monday, April 3, 2017

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Dear Parents,

Thank you to all the students that did a wonderful job while I was on my extended Spring Break. I had intended to return to school on Wednesday, March 22 but as fate would have it our flight from Lihue to Honolulu was canceled so we missed our flight from Honolulu to Anchorage and couldn’t return until Friday, March 24. (I know, what a place to be stranded in.) I appreciate how well the students worked for the visiting teachers and behaved. It’s not easy to be out and it makes it so much easier knowing the students know what to do when I’m gone. Thank you!

The 3^rd graders are taking the PEAKS test this week and next Monday and will start promptly at 9:30 each day. 3^rd grade parents please send your child well rested, well fed, and relaxed and ready to do his or her best. We won’t have spelling tests or homework this week due to the 3^rd grade testing. I have sent next week’s homework in today’s folder.

One more important event is our 3^rd Grade Recognition Ceremony in which we send our 3^rd graders with a big thank you and good luck in the future. I have scheduled this event for Friday, May 12 at 1:00. 3^rd grade parents please let me know if this date and time does not work for you as soon as possible.

I have sent third quarter report cards home in today’s folder. Please take a few moments to talk with your child to celebrate his or her accomplishments and discuss some areas he or she needs to improve. Teaching your children how to set goals is an important tool and gift that you can give them.

The students have settled back into a nice work cycle this week. We have been studying capitalization, word analysis, numbers and operations, math operations and facts, grammar, writing, spelling, writing friendly letters, animal and continent research, and more. It’s been a great week!

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at moyer_craig@asdk12.org or call or write me a note.

Sincerely,

Craig Moyer