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Dr. Steven Hughes, pediatric neurologist, and Matt Hillis, from the Bergamo Montessori School in Sacramento California discuss Montessori education on Insight - Capital Public Radio.
CLICK HERE to watch it today.
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Welcome Grandparents and Special Adults!
Monday, March 25
GL Scrip Orders Due, 8:30am
Elementary German Class, 3:15-4pm
Karate Lil' Dragons, 3:15-4pm
Community Toddler Music Class, 6pm
Board Meeting, 6:00pm
Tuesday, March 26
Book Fair, 8am-12pm, 3-5:30pm
Parent Chat, 8:45am
Karate for Youth, 3:15-4:00pm, Oberheu
Al Mar Bowling, 3:15pm
Wednesday, March 27
Book Fair, 8am-12pm, 3-5:30pm
Community Music Classes, 9:15 & 10:30am
Thursday, March 28
Book Fair, 8am-12pm, 3-5:30pm
Karate Lil' Dragons, 3:15-4pm
Creative Movement, 3:15-4pm, Rm 201, Last day this session! Parents, please come for cookies and punch if you are able.
Parent Talk Course, 6:30-8:30pm, Rm 201
Friday, March 29
Book Fair, 8am-4pm
Book Buddies, 9am
Karate for Youth, 3:15-4:00pm, Oberheu
A full calendar is available online:
http://www.montessorischoolbg.org
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Track and Field!
It’s time for Track and Field again and this will be our 4th season.
The Mustang Track & field team is open to 1st – 6th grade students.
Track & field includes a range of different events for children to participate in and try to achieve their best as well as being encouraged by others. A child can get several benefits from taking part in track and field events, the most prominent being the effects of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) that includes strength training, anaerobic and aerobic exercise. The intention of each session will be to practice and improve on the following:
Track events include:
50m, 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m as well as the 4 x 100m relay.
Field events include:
shot put; discus; javelin (foam); high jump (scissors) and long jump.
To register, CLICK HERE.
CLICK HERE for the Athletic Participation Form.
The Sixth Grade Bake Sale
We, the sixth graders, are planning our annual sixth grade trip. We have been researching various destinations that would give us a fun learning experience. Our responsibilities also include raising the money and planning our trip. From March 25-29, we will be having a bake sale to raise money for our field trip. We will be selling our items in the MSBG foyer. The bake sale will include items such as brownies, cookies, fudge, and other sweet treats. The bake sale items will not be priced but we will really appreciate donations. Thank you!
- Mary Grace, Laney, Alexa and Jared
The PTO Spring Fundraiser
The PTO Spring Fundraiser has begun! The packets were sent home with your child this past Wednesday. Please take a moment to look over the items and share with your friends and family; items will be delivered in time for Mother’s Day. PTO will earn between 20% and 50% of all sales! As we’ve stated, all profits for this fundraiser will be used for the outdoor hard-surface play area, a benefit for ALL students, so we need your help to make this a success! All orders are due into the front office no later than WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH.
Summer Fun Planning
Spring has just arrived, but we're already starting to think about summer plans for MSBG! We'd like to invite parents to help us plan some summer activities for our students to help us stay connected. If you are interested in talking about summer activities, please let Meg Vostal (meg@montessorischoolbg.org) know, and we'll arrange a planning meeting in April.
Grandparents/Special Adults' Week
Calling all grandparents and special adults! Your grandchildren would love to have you spend some time with them in the classroom. Please see the sign-up sheets located in the foyer. If you have questions, please email or speak with the classroom teachers or the office. Time slots are available in one-hour increments in order to accomodate all the grandparents but you may sign up for more time slots if the schedule allots. If you are interested in visiting during one of the enrichment programming time (Spanish, Music, Physical Education, Art, Band), please check with the classroom teachers for the schedule. We're so looking forward to our special visitors week! All sign up sheets are in the foyer on the white board.
Miss Susan: Playing Instruments
Children love playing instruments and good quality rhythm instruments allow children to explore a variety of things – the way to produce certain sounds; how the sound of metal instruments differ from the sound of wooden ones; which instruments make a long sound and which ones make a short sound. These simple instruments are wonderful accompanying instruments and can be used to explore simple musical concepts such as fast and slow and musical form. Using rhythm sticks, jingles, and shakers are always a highlight in our music classes!
It's Enrollment Season!
Enrollment is filling very quickly for fall.
All we need to enroll your child for 2013-14 school year is the completed enrollment form and the deposit. Please remember that your deposit is applied toward your tuition and is not a separate fee. The deposit guarantees your child(ren)'s spot on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tell your friends about MSBG! Invite them to call (419) 352-4203 to schedule a no-pressure, personal tour. If you are an enrolled family and you refer another family, you can get a $250 credit! CLICK HERE for the referral form.
Kroger News
Starting April 1, 2013, all Kroger Plus cards must be reenrolled to continue to receive benefits paid to MSBG. Reenrollment must happen before April 30th in order to avoid any interruption in the rebates paid. This is for ALL Kroger Plus cards, even if you just enrolled your card for this year. It is very simple to reenroll – just login to your Kroger Plus account
(www.krogercommunityrewards.com
or www.kroger.com and click Community),
and make sure that MSBG is selected as your non-profit of choice. If you have any problems with re-enrollment, please contact Alisa Suelzer at Alisa.Suelzer@gmail.com.
Unfortunately, changes in reporting from the Kroger corporate offices have caused difficulty with giving the rebates back to individual families. Stating privacy concerns, Kroger did not provide individual card detail in for the last rebate paid in February. Because we already had most cards registered in the fall, we decided to use the prior quarter activity to allocate the benefit to the families. We will plan to do this for the final quarterly payment to be made in May for this enrollment year. However, after that, we currently have no way of assigning the rebate to individual accounts. Kroger has assured us that they will look to see what they can do for schools that are in this situation.
In the meantime, we plan to give the rebate received previously by the families to the MSBG PTO. As members of the PTO, all parents will then have a say in how that money is put to use for the benefit of all of our children. 25% currently goes to the scholarship fund and that will continue as well. While not ideal, we are happy that our school can still benefit from the program and we urge all of you to still continue to participate and have your friends and family do the same. This is a very easy fundraiser for our school as it takes very little time and no money on your part. So please continue to support this program – the more cards enrolled, the more money that is paid out of Kroger’s charitable fund. If at any time, Kroger is able to begin giving individual card detail again, we will then resume crediting individual tuition accounts. Thank you for your support of our school!
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Things to keep in mind...Another benefit of being part of the MSBG school community is the option to rent our facility. MSBG has a rental agreement policy and has beautiful rooms and kitchens available for your event. Stop in the office for more information. (419) 352-4203 
We collect BOX TOPS and JUICE BOX pouches to raise money for special activities. Click 
Love TARGET? They have a rewards program that helps benefit MSBG as a nonprofit organization. Click 
