Hilltop Montessori School's mission is for students to
practice responsible independence in a caring community
of curious, critical learners and thoughtful citizens.
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Next Week
NO SCHOOL
12/23/19 - 1/3/20
WINTER BREAK
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Upcoming
Monday, January 6
- Students back to school
- MS Basketball, 4-5:15
Tuesday, January 7
Wednesday, January 8
Thursday, January 9
Friday, January 10
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Dear Families,
We hope you have a wonderful winter break. As we think about the new year that is just around the corner, please note a few upcoming dates:
- RETURN TO SCHOOL on MONDAY, January 6th
- Indexed Tuition Applications Due in to SSS by January 15th!
- Student Progress Reports will be sent to families of Elementary and MS students at the end of January
- Curriculum Morning - Saturday, February 8th (9 a.m. - Noon)
Re-Enrollment for next year is just around the corner! New contracts will be out by February 1. Important dates in the re-enrollment process are:
- January 15 - Indexed Tuition Applications Due to SSS
- February 1 - Re-enrollment contracts out to all current families with the Notification of Indexed Tuition level when applicable
- February 15th - Re-enrollment Contracts due back with Indexed Tuition acceptance
Enjoy the two weeks with your children!
Happy Holidays,
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Thank you to all who were able to attend last week’s Author’s Tea, featuring the students’ opinion pieces. They worked very hard, and it was wonderful to celebrate their efforts with you.
This week, we relaxed with some symmetry work using pattern blocks, played “addition bump” using dice and math fact skills, and created beautiful posters of the five classes of vertebrates.
We hope everybody enjoys some rejuvenating time together over the break. See you in the new year!
Kerstin, Patrick, and Amelia
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Asha reads his opinion writing for the Birch Room.
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Kennedy reads a "just-right book"
to her reading buddy, Reine.
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Harper R. and Henry count unifix cubes after making estimates at Morning Meeting.
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Wonderful to see everyone at the Museum enjoying the great projects!
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With project deadlines right up to the last minute, the Middle School finished its first term with great accomplishments, deserved satisfaction, and a welcome break. January brings a new deep immersion into climate justice and activism but also times to celebrate the just completed History and Society Projects. Their beautiful, creative, insightful, and meticulous “Before Our Time” Brattleboro History books will be on display at the Brooks Memorial Library during the month of January. The Society Project (in a time of climate change) digital collages will be shown at a festive premiere on Friday evening, January 17 at 118 Elliot. The show begins at 7pm. Finally, the soon to be completed Society Project photo collages will hang at Amy’s Bakery for the entire month of February.
We wish everyone wonderful and rejuvenating holidays.
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The Flying Nut
:
‘Tis the Sea-son at the
New England Center for Circus Arts
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The New England Center for Circus Arts has presented their reimagining of The Nutcracker since 2009. This year’s production, in NECCA’s custom-built circus trapezium, offers another high-flying celebration of circus joy—this time with a dose of midwinter tropical delight! Join the Stahlbaum family as their children receive a gift that starts them on a journey to strange and fascinating lands, where crabs do trapeze and flamingos dance on an oceanscape far from their wintry holiday home.
NECCA’s annual holiday production showcases more than 65 performers and brings together NECCA’s skilled youth performers, adults from the upper-level recreational programs, and international students from the school’s acclaimed professional training program. The mission of the Flying Nut is to support students through the educational process of putting a show together while strengthening the community of the school by combining the diverse cultures and perspectives that the students represent.
Alongside flying trapeze, juggling, contortion, aerial silks, and more circus arts disciplines, a teeterboard act has been added this year (launching acrobats into the air). The result is a stunning acrobatic extravaganza featuring the future stars of circus.
The Flying Nut: ‘Tis the Sea-son offers only four shows, running December 20-22 at the NECCA trapezium at 10 Town Crier Drive in Brattleboro.
Tickets are on sale now. Showtimes are Friday, December 20th (7:30pm), Saturday, December 21st (3:00pm and 7:30pm), and Sunday, December 22nd (1:00pm). Tickets are $10-$25 and are available online at
www.necenterforcircusarts.org
. For more information, call (802) 254-9780.
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