October 13
Adult Choir 9:30
Parent Enrichment Night 6:30
October 20-23
No School - Professional Development Days
October 27
Hearing Screening
Día De Los Muertos
October 28
Glow Dance & Ag Arts Party
November 1-2
No School - Parent Teacher Conferences
November 3
No School - Teacher Work Day
November 6
Skate City Fundraising Night
November 17
Half Day for Kindergarten
November 20-24
Fall Break
December 1
Winter Spiral (in-school festival)
December 4
Urban Air Fundraiser
December 9
Winter Faire
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Dearest Mountain Song Community,
I extend a heartfelt thank you to our staff, teachers, substitute teachers, and volunteers who have filled in the gaps to ensure we could keep school open all week! We are definitely recovering from our illness outbreak. While we’re not fully there, we are in far better shape than last week when we had 23 staff members out!
We could only manage due to the caring of our community. Thank you!
In the spirit of keeping our germs to ourselves, we are again pausing Friday Assembly this morning, which also means pausing Coffee and Conversation today. We will kick them both back into action when we celebrate Día De Los Muertos on October 27th.
I do hope to see you tonight on Zoom for our Parent Enrichment Night with parenting expert, Kim John Payne (Simplicity Parenting). Please see details below. You won’t want to miss it!
Cheers to ten years,
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Teresa M. Woods, Ph.D.
Executive Director
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Featuring Kim John Payne
Friday, October 13th 6:30p.m.
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Join us tonight Friday, October 13th at 6:30 on Zoom for our Parent Enrichment Night as keynote speaker Kim John Payne discusses the Soul of Discipline. You can enjoy his talk from the comfort of your home!
“Kim Payne provides a useful model for choosing our parenting stance—Governor, Gardener, or Guide—depending on the situation. Most powerfully, Payne begins with the radical view that children are not disobedient but rather disoriented. The upshot of this shift in perspective is that discipline is about helping children orient themselves effectively, not about controlling or chastising.”
—Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Playful Parenting
We look forward to offering our FULL Parent Enrichment Conference in the spring of 2024. Stay tuned for a new date in the coming weeks.
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Mountain Song Adult Choir
TODAY
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If you LOVE to sing, we would LOVE for you to join the Mountain Song Adult Choir! Rehearsals are Friday mornings from 9:35-10:35 a.m. in the homeschool room beginning TODAY, October 13th. Email Ms. Lijuaco at kjlijuaco@mountainsongschool.org to register, and be sure to check in at the front desk.
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Glow Dance and Ag Arts Pizza Party
Saturday, October 28
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Please join us for our Glow Dance and Ag Arts Pizza Party on Saturday, October 28th from 5:30 - 9pm. Tickets to the dance are $5 for all attendees (including adults) and include a bag of popcorn. Individual-sized pizzas will be for sale for $5. All sales will benefit Ag Arts. We plan to host the event outside, weather permitting.
Parents/guardians are responsible for the supervision of their children.
There will be three pizza options: cheese, pepperoni, and veggie. All pizzas will be made in our outdoor oven and feature pizza sauce made from Mountain Song tomatoes and herbs. Our veggie pizza will use seasonal veggies from our school garden!
We are also in need of VOLUNTEERS to help with the event! Multiple volunteer slots are available HERE help with set-up/prep, ticket sales, pizza making, and clean-up.
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After-School Late Pick-Up Policy |
Mountain Song students are expected to be picked up at the end of the school day within 15 minutes of dismissal time. If you know that you will be late picking up your
children, please notify the front office immediately or sign up with our partnered after-school program, Innovation Learning.
Mountain Song will charge parents or guardians for repeated late pick-ups, as this impacts our staffing and necessary after-school responsibilities. The rates charged for each student not picked up within the 15-minute grace period can be found in our Parent Handbook.
Questions? Please contact our front office at (719) 203-6364.
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We are hiring a new Business Manager as well as Substitute Teachers at Mountain Song! If you know of anyone that would be a good fit for the only Waldorf-inspired public school in Southern Colorado, please send them our way.
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Parent Circle Meeting
Thursday, October 19th
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Chalk art by Ms. Liz Tomal-Keiser |
Calling all family members! Parent Circle will be holding our next meeting on October 19th at 6:30PM on Zoom (for this month, at least). We will be selecting new officers for the committee! If you are interested in positions such as chair, secretary, sub-committee positions, or you just want to be involved, please come join us. We'll go around and give all interested parties a chance to say what they are interested in doing and why, and then we'll be casting our votes. We will also be talking about our holiday giving projects, and give any available updates on Winter Faire.
Please join us!
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In case you missed it on social media…
Check out the beautiful sign that welcomes our students into our garden! It was lovingly created by our talented MSCS alum, Emma Rose Martinez. Thank you, Emma Rose!
Wednesday, October 11th
For a peek into the classroom, we hope you'll follow along on Instagram and Facebook!
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Coffee & Conversation
Paused One More Time
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Chalk art by Ms. Courtney Oliver
We must pause Friday Assembly and Coffee and Conversation one more time as we recover from our illness outbreak. We’re doing everything we can to keep kids in school and school open. We can’t wait to start them up again.
In the meantime, join us on Zoom TONIGHT as Kim John Payne speaks exclusively to Mountain Song parents and guardians about the Soul of Discipline.
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Chalk art by Ms. Miranda Barness |
VOLUNTEER AT THE GLOW DANCE
VOLUNTEER IN THE GARDEN
MARK 10 YEARS WITH $10
JOIN A COMMITTEE
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