PLEASE READ! Clearwater Clarifications

Hello Families!

Spirit Week Delayed

Unfortunately the dates next week will not work for Spirit Week. We will let you know of the new dates as soon as it's put in the schedule.

Donations (if you are able) 

Item	Volunteer
Timer plug-in for UV lamp
Round, bristly brushes to clean aquarium
Decaf Teas (for students to make for guests)
Kleenex
Dish Soap

Please Sign up here or respond to this email if you are able to donate :) Thank you in advance!  

Have a wonderful 3-Day Weekend!

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Emily Bowar & Jessy Eaton Fabel

Clearwater Guides

"Our aim therefore is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." ~ Maria Montessori"   

Clearwater Newsletter 1-19-2018

Happy Friday, Clearwater families!

It's been a busy week! Before we jump into the lessons that the students received, we wanted to take a brief moment to share the grace and courtesy work we have been doing lately.  Dr. Montessori believed in educating the whole child and that includes learning how to be kind person as well as a motivated mathematician. We call these lessons "Grace and Courtesy" lessons.  We've been intentional about the following gestures:

• Saying, "Excuse me" when you need to get by someone. We get a lot of practice with this in our miniature classroom:)
• If someone gets hurt or you accidentally hurt someone say, "Are you ok? Do you need anything?"
• Using an appropriate voice level during lunch time and work time so that we can hear each other and protect concentration.  
• Not interrupting someone when they are working. If someone does interrupt you say something like, "I'm trying to focus on my work. Please return to your work."

We have a number of opportunities to practice these grace and courtesy skills during the school day and we are already observing many of the students using these skills with little guidance.

Lessons we've had

• Money work
  
• Article, Adjective, Noun practice
• Reptile Venn Diagram - comparing Mr. Swims (our aquatic turtle) and Gex (a bearded dragon from another classroom)
• Landforms and water forms
• Parts of a Flower
• Introduction to Fractions
• Common Multiples
• Common and Proper Nouns
• Hot Air Rises (a very fun science experiment!)
• Animal Stories

Upcoming Events & Reminders

No School on January 29th 

Please label or mark winter gear: It is very helpful when mittens, hats, and snow pants have clear labels on them. Many students have black snow pants, so it's even very helpful to have a special ribbon or marker on the outside of the snow pants, making it very easy to identify whose is whose.  

Dish Soap: If anyone would be willing to bring in a big bottle of dish soap, we would be eternally grateful! Thanks for the vinegar, McNiff Family!

Snack Volunteers Please check to see if your snack week is coming up. Click here to check and see if you would like to sign up for any other volunteer opportunities. Here's who's up in the next two weeks:

Jan. 22-26	Leo Thomas
Jan. 30-Feb. 2	Amos Keitel

With gratitude,

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Emily Bowar & Jessy Eaton Fabel

Clearwater Guides

"Our aim therefore is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." ~ Maria Montessori"   

Newsletter

Dear Clearwater Families,

Happy New Year!!!

We hope you all had a wonderful break!! It was great to see everyone back at school on Wednesday. We had an exciting morning today with our brief power outage. The students handled it wonderfully and we worked right through it :) 

Lessons we've had: 

- Stamp Game Addition

- greater than, Less than

- Simular Shapes

- Parts of the Day

- Parts of a Flower

Upcoming Events & Reminders

Thank you for all the winter gear!! We were able to go outside for about 20 minutes today :) 

If anyone would be willing to bring in a big bottle of vinegar or some paper towels we would really appreciate it! 

No School on January 15th and January 29th 

Snack Volunteers Please check to see if your snack week is coming up. Click here to check and see if you would like to sign up for any other volunteer opportunities. Here's who's up in the next two weeks:

Jan 8-12	Embry Wilson
Jan. 16-19	Shylin Halvorson

Welcome Back !

--

Emily Bowar & Jessy Eaton Fabel

Clearwater Guides

"Our aim therefore is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." ~ Maria Montessori"