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Tues. Sept. 26: Children's House Montessori Journey
Details Below
Tues. Oct. 3: Supporting Your Child's Reading Journey - A Series
Details below
Sat. Oct. 7: Garden Workday
Details below
Tues. Oct. 10: Community Meeting
Link to register below
Fri. Oct. 13: Parent-Teacher Conferences
School is closed to students
Mon. Oct.16: Parent-Teacher Conferences
School is closed to students
Tues. Oct. 17: Teacher Workday
School is closed to students
Fri. Oct. 20: Coffee Talk: Montessori 101
Details below
Fri. Oct. 20: Fall Picnic
Details to come
Tues. Oct. 24 - Fri. Oct. 27: Scholl Pictures
Details to come, including volunteer opportunities
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2023-24 Printable
Student Calendar
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Children's House Montessori Journey
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We are often asked - "What does a Children's House classroom look like? Are the students doing whatever they want all day? How do the students learn while having the freedom to choose?" - Learn more as a parent, bring a friend along, and join us while we debunk the Montessori myths.
When: Tuesday, September 26
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Where: WSM Main Campus
Who is invited: All Toddler and Children's House Families and the Public
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Did you know that a child's reading journey begins before birth? Babies start recognizing speech sounds during the last trimester of pregnancy. Toddlers continue absorbing information from what they hear in the environment, which is foundational for later learning. Join Staci Jackson, Learning Support Specialist, and Holly Tosco, Director of Toddler and Children's House Programs, as we explore essential preliteracy skills and discover how you can support your toddler's reading journey in the home.
When: Tuesday, October 3
8:30 - 9:30 am
Where: WSM Lobby
Who is invited: All WSM Families
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Garden Workday
Spend time on Saturday, October 7, learning from and working alongside our Garden Coordinator, Dorian. She has vast goals for beautifying our campus this year and would love you to help her make it happen. Click below for specific opportunities and more information about Garden Day.
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Our first traditional Community Meeting of the school year is Tuesday, October 10, at 6 p.m. We are excited to bring back the "community" part of our meetings by having them in person as well as via Zoom! We will be offering childcare for families who are able to attend in person. More details about childcare will come out soon.
Please send agenda item requests to Patricia at patriciaflavin@wsmontessori.org by Monday, October 9, at 8 a.m.
What is a Community Meeting?
The WSM Blueprint reads:
"…To facilitate open communication, we will hold monthly community meetings to allow and encourage a free and open exchange of ideas and information. These meetings will be a direct line of communication between the school community and the Board…
- The dates for these meetings will be published at the beginning of the school year, and they will be held regardless of attendance.
- At least one representative of the Board and one member of the administration will attend each meeting.
- A scribe will record all that is said.
- The meeting is run by the community, not the administration or the Board. The group — not an officer — decides what it wants to talk about and how long to talk about it.
- All voices are equal, and decisions will be made by consensus.
- Questions that are raised for the Board will be respectfully responded to by the Board at the next community meeting.
- Details on the community meeting process will be available to all members of the community."
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Parent-Teacher Conferences
Per the School Calendar, WSM is closed on Friday, October 13, and Monday, October 16, for Parent Teacher Conferences. Your student's Guides have worked hard to prepare for conferences. Therefore, please honor these two dedicated meeting days by not requesting conferences on other days. Also, meeting in person provides many benefits that cannot be substituted. So, we ask that you refrain from requesting a Zoom conference, as all conferences should be in-person. However, should an unexpected illness or event occur in your family, we will do our best to reschedule a conference time.
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Montessori 101
When: Friday, October 20
8:30 - 9:30 am
Where: WSM Lobby
Who is invited: All WSM Families and the public. Invite a friend!
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For families new and not-so-new to Montessori, this is a beautiful opportunity to understand the qualities unique to a Montessori school and have your questions answered. With the start of school behind us, your child is probably sharing about their day, which might lead to questions such as:
- What a particular material/lesson is (e.g., pink tower or bead frame)
- Why a situation was approached a certain way
- Why do we have multi-age groupings, and what are the benefits
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Fall Picnic
We are looking forward to the Fall Picnic at WSM on the evening of Friday, October 20. More details will be coming out very soon.
In the meantime, If you want to create a game booth to facilitate Class Community connections, sign up by clicking the button below.
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Email Correspondence from WSM
At WSM, we correspond with our families mainly through email. We use an email marketing platform that allows us to simultaneously send emails to our entire community. Because these emails come from a third party, they may go to your trash, spam, or junk mailbox. Saving WSM email addresses in your address book will help route them to your inbox instead. If you are not receiving emails from us, or you are not receiving classroom newsletters, first check your trash, spam, and junk mailboxes and then email Patricia at patriciaflavin@wsmontessori.org if you still do not see emails from WSM.
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Moving the Carline Quickly and Safely
Drop-off
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Wait your turn to be directed by a staff member to enter the parking lot or the circle drive. Do not pass the cars waiting in line.
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Drive slowly on campus at all times - 5 MPH or less.
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Please have your child unbuckled and their backpack ready when the Admin member letting your child out approaches your car.
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Do not get out of your car for any reason! If your child left something in the car, hand it to an Admin member or park in the parking lot and bring it to the front desk. If your child becomes upset while in line and needs more time, you can park in the parking lot and walk them in.
- If your child unexpectedly has difficulty getting out of the car, we ask that you park in the parking lot and walk them into the building.
- If you park in the parking lot rather than using the carline, you must walk your child to the portico. Please do not allow your child to walk down the sidewalk by themselves.
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Stay as close to the car in front of you as possible. This allows us to pack more vehicles on the driveway and fewer cars on Holder Rd.
- Stay alert, stay off your phone, and watch for the line to move so you can drive with it.
Pick-Up
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Wait your turn to be directed by a staff member to enter the parking lot or the circle drive. Do not pass the cars waiting in line.
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Drive slowly on campus at all times - 5 MPH or less.
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Stay as close to the car in front of you as possible, especially when you arrive on campus before the line moves! This allows us to pack more vehicles on the driveway and fewer cars on Holder Rd.
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If you need more time to buckle your child, pull straight forward toward the grate at the end of the sidewalk, as close to the sidewalk as possible, OR turn out of the circle onto the driveway and use one of our safe buckle zones by pulling as far off the driveway as possible into the gravel.
- Stay alert, stay off your phone, and watch for the line to move so you can drive with it.
Thank you for helping us move quickly and safely so our families are on Holder Road only as long as needed.
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Navigating COVID-19
If, at any time, you or anyone in your household tests positive for COVID-19, you must report it to your child's Guide AND Patricia. Please do so as soon as possible so we can let classrooms know, as needed.
When can my child return to school after testing positive for COVID-19?
When your child tests positive for COVID-19
- Day zero is the day symptoms began OR the date of the positive test
- Isolate for five days, beginning with day zero
- If symptoms began Sunday, September 18th, they will Isolate through Friday, September 23rd, making their first day out of isolation Saturday, September 24th.
- After 5-day isolation, as long as they are fever-free for 24 hours, without fever-reducing medication, and symptoms are improving, they can return to school with a mask. They must mask for an additional five days, regardless of a negative COVID test result.
- They would begin masking on Saturday, September 24th, and mask through Tuesday, September 27th, making their first day without a mask Wednesday, September 28th.
When can my child take their mask off after a COVID-19 Exposure?
When your child has been identified as a close contact with COVID-19
- They will need to mask for ten days, starting with day zero being the day of last known exposure.
- Last known exposure is the last time you were within 6ft. for more than 15 minutes in 24 hours of an individual infected with COVID-19. If this person lives in your home, the last day of known exposure is the day their isolation is over.
- The CDC recommends testing on day 5
- per the CDC, you can still develop COVID-19 after day 5 of exposure, so testing negative on day five does not mean you can take your mask off.
- If you develop symptoms, you should isolate and test immediately.
If you have questions about COVID-19 or our policies, please contact Patricia at patriciaflavin@wsmontessori.org.
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Reporting an Illness
To keep our community as safe and healthy as possible, it is imperative that you report and diagnosis of contagious illnesses, i.e., Strep, Pink Eye, RSV, Flu, Hand Foot and Mouth, and COVID-19, to Patricia via email at patriciaflavin@wsmontessori.org as soon as possible.
The reason for reporting these illnesses is that families can watch for the signs and symptoms at home and help stop the spread throughout the environment by catching symptoms early.
If you have questions about our Health & Safety Guidelines, please see the email here.
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We understand that drop-off and pick-up are busy, and our campus has limited parking spaces. Still, we ask that you do not park in our accessible parking spaces unless you have a distinguishing license plate, a removable windshield placard, or a disabled Veteran registration plate or other clear indicators that qualify you for accessible parking.
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