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Important Dates
at a
Glance
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Ongoing: Food Drive for Mill Falls Food Pantry!
10/2
Picture Day!
10/4
Read-In: Glacier & Everglades
8:15-8:45am
10/7-10/11
Scholastic Book Fair
10/8
Green Thumb Club
K-3rd Year Students
3:00pm-4:15pm
10/10
Green Thumb Club
4th-6th Year Students
3:00-4:15pm
10/10
Bring Your Parents to School Night
Don't miss this important Mill Falls event!
6:30-7:30pm
10/11
Read-In: Acadia, Zion & Yosemite
8:15-8:45am
10/14
School Closed
in
honor of Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day
10/15 School Closed
for
Staff Montessori Conference Day
10/16
MFCS School Board Meeting, 5:45pm
10/17
Green Thumb Club
K-3rd Year Students
3:00-4:15pm
10/18
Read-In: Denali & Olympic
8:15-9:45am
Above: Students in the Glacier Room studied the layers of the earth this week, creating their own hand-made replicas, seen here.
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CORPORATE SPONSORS
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We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing contributions from the following corporate partners:
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Fun, Run, & Service...
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The last week has been filled with wonderful community activities that brought us together in celebration of peace, fun and service. Please take a moment to reflect on what we've done together as shared below, and to stay up to date on school happenings!
 While our staff and students celebrated International Peace Day last Friday, Shannon, Laura W, (Math) Colleen and Meryl were in Boston at a
Montessori Coaching Workshop led by Elizabeth Slade, a nationally respected and beloved Montessorian working now with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS). The workshop explored the Montessori Coaching Model, which supports our staff and students in our public Montessori setting. In the words of NCMPS, "
Coaching brings a belief in limitless human potential to the organizational level of the school, helping adults partner and prepare through systems for stability, cohesion and coherence." Attending this workshop is part of the 15 month project we have undertaken with Elizabeth, to further grow and inform our public Montessori Programming. This work, which began last fall, is being paid for through Title Funds managed by the NH DOE.
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On Tuesday, we held our annual
All-School Service Trip to the NH Food Bank
where our students and staff packed Mac 'n Cheese Dinners for food insecure families across our state. The Food Bank staff welcomed us with open arms, and helped get us set up to pack the meals. Before the trip, our community discussed basic human needs in age appropriate ways to prepare for the work at hand. Our student teams packed
14 boxes in total, which equals approximately 3,024 meals! We are so proud of them!
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 Thanks SO much to all who contributed to making last Sunday's event - our Road Race & Family Fun Run - such a great success! From our host - SNHU - to our partners and sponsors, to our day-of- crew, and of course to our scores of runners, we send a resounding thank you! The event
raised
over $5000
in support of our public Montessori school, in large part because of our sponsors and partners. It takes a village to pull off an event like this, and we are so lucky to have the love and support of so many!
 There are many to acknowledge (and we do so below), but please first join us in sending
a HUGE THANK YOU to MFCS Parent, Amanda Gerardi. She came to us over 4 years ago with this idea of a healthy and fun event timed to kick off the school year, and has championed its execution every year since. Amanda works tirelessly, attending to every detail, large and small, year after year, to make each race better than the last!
We gathered at SNHU's beautiful stadium under Sunday's bright blue sky, to enjoy the warm up, Fun Run, Road Race, lawn games, face painting and music provided by DJ Ron. MFCS Parents and student-athletes from the University stood side-by-side, engaging and encouraging our kiddos, and participating in the various activities. The University's generous donation of breakfast and snacks were also much appreciated!
The day-of crew was key, and they shared their strength and energy from the crack of dawn until the end of the morning event. That team included:
Mindy Kacavas, Kristin Ross, Simone Serrao-Gore, Meghan Sirois, Tina Ward, Ramone Salomon - who ran the morning warm up exercises,
Lauren Doukas - who painted faces all morning long!
Tamara Salomon - who loaned her obstacle course, The
SNHU Men's Hockey and Women's Softball Teams as well as members of the
Women's Basketball Team, and so many others who helped keep things running smoothly.
Please enjoy more photos below and a shout out to our many sponsors and partners.
Please note... If you are looking to get your hands on a cool race day T-shirt, we do have some extras - mostly sized Adult Medium & X-Large; For a $5 donation, you can have one! Stop in and pick up yours today!
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To our families who are celebrating
Rosh Hashanah
, we wish you a very happy and healthy New Year, 5780.
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Read Ins Are Back!
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Stop in for a Read In!
Next Friday we will kick off our
Friday Morning
Read Ins, which will run throughout the year
(please see info about this to the left in the Important Dates section).
Glacier and Everglades families, you are the first up on October 5th from 8:15-8:45am!
Monthly Read In Schedule:
1st Week- Glacier & Everglades
2nd Week- Acadia, Yosemite & Zion
3rd Week- Denali & Olympic
Please note, if there is a delay, or snow day, we will not make
up a missed Read In.
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New After School Club!
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 Green Thumb Club
Ms. Melissa is looking for student artists who love to create works of art using plants, flowers, leaves, sticks, rocks, seashells and anything else found in the natural world. She will be running the new Green Thumb Club on Tuesdays for Kinder-3rd year students and Thursdays for our 4th-6th Year students.
The flyer of this new club went home in backpacks today.
Please click here to download.
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Technology Agreements: Past Due
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Attention All 1st & 4th year students:
If you have not yet returned your completed Technology Agreement, please do so ASAP, as they are now past due.
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Picture Day: October 2nd!
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Picture Day!
October 2, 2019
Information about Picture Day and related order forms were sent home in backpacks last Friday
Order forms are due NO LATER than Picture Day itself, otherwise you won't be able to get photos.
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Save the Date: Thursday, October 10th!
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Bring a Parent/Guardian
to School Night
Thursday,
October 10th. 6:30-8pm
It's one of the most important nights of the year!
Please plan to join us! This evening is quite different from our Open House held earlier this month. At the Bring a Parent/Guardian to School Night, you will play the role of the student, as your child/children lead you through a mini Montessori work cycle. There will be plenty of 'ah-ha!' moments for you as you come to understand aspects of the unique Montessori approach, which you have chosen for your child/children.
Our
Fall Book Fair
will also be open that evening.
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Fall Book Fair
Our Fall Book Fair will run from October 7th through October 11th, and will also be in session during our Bring a Parent/Guardian to School Night event.
Book Fair
Volunteers...
We need YOU!
We are looking for a few volunteers to help set up and staff the Book Fair that week.
Thank you & See you on the 10th!
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Important Dates:
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Please note school will be closed on:
Monday, October 14th in observance of Columbus Day &
Tuesday, October 15th for an all-staff Montessori Workshop Day.
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Food Drive Kick Off
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 Our 2019/20 Food Drive for the MFCS Food Pantry, is now in full swing. The Pantry was established several years ago to help support MFCS families who are experiencing food insecurity. We can't thank you enough for your many generous donations. The Drive will go on all year long. Your donations, in combination with our partnership with the NH Food Bank, enables us to send meals home with those children in need at least 3 times per week.
To learn more about the program, how you can help, or how you can access the Pantry for your family, please reach out to
Grace. To view the flyer describing our donation needs,
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Help Us Count YOU In?
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Please keep those Count Me In forms coming!
It is tremendously helpful to
know more about you and how you'd like to lend a hand to support our school, staff and students. If you haven't had the chance to fill out the form yet, please
click here
to download it and then please return it to school.
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Community Corner
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 The
NH Jr. Monarchs have issued a Reading Challenge...
read 10 books and receive a free ticket to a Jr. Monarch's Game. As many of you know, members from the Jr. Monarchs work with our students throughout the year. This year they will be focusing on Math Facts! Their coach is MFCS Dad, Ryan Frew. We love having the guys here at school each week, and hope some of you will take the reading challenge and/or head to a game to cheer on the team. Game schedule and other information can be found at:
www.nhjrmonarchs.com
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Hannaford Helps
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Hannaford continues to help us raise funds via their
Hannaford Helps Program.
All
collected school dollars, must be turned in to the Hannaford store on Hanover Street in Manchester, or you can drop your receipts here and we will drop them off for you.
This is an easy way for Mill Falls Families & Friends to help support for our School! If you have any questions or want to know more about this program, please click
here
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Montessori Moments...
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Moments from International Peace Day 2019
Above: Our Kinder Students created Peace Necklaces. Our Upper Elementary Students painted Peace Rocks and they were encouraged to leave them in places out in the world, as an act of kindness.
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2019 Road Race & Family Fun Run!
Race Day Sponsors included: Southern New Hampshire University, NH Jr. Monarchs, Keller Williams,
Kanteres Real Estate, Elm Grove Properties,
Applied Behavioral Mental Health Counseling, Harvey's Concrete Floors, DJ Ron, Avalanche Screen Printing, Whole Foods, Coca-Cola, Paquette Pools, Gil Talbot Photography, Karr & Boucher, Serenity Spa, Homans Associates, Bookery Manchester, and the following Mill Falls Families:
Adhikari, Bridgett, Decesere,
Gerardi, Robinson, Rosano,
Ross, Sirois,
Ward.
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All School Service Day at the Food Bank
The weather was perfect for our walks to and from the NH Food Bank. We divided the students into three groups mixing our Kinder, Lower and Upper Elementary Students so that the teams could walk and work together. Special thanks to all the chaperones and to Staff from Mill Falls and the Food Bank for making this such a meaningful experience for our kids.
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