Montessori Minutes - Weekly Parent Communication

1st Quarter, Issue 7, October 14-20, 2016 go/30e094daaae2aaa8-vision3. We have many spots to fill!

Visit the JAA PTA at www.axsonpta.org to join the PTA, buy t-shirts, volunteer, and keep abreast of upcoming events. FAME and PTA are thrilled to invite

you to this year's Fall Festival on Dates to Remember Friday, November 4th. The PTA has exciting attractions and 18-T’Shirt Tuesday delicious food lined up for our Axson students, families, and 19-End of 1st Quarter Grading Some of the updates you will find on Period alumni. Pre-K students can get a my website this week have to do head start on festival fun with gifted referrals, last month’s 19-20 Vision Screenings beginning at 1:30 pm and older classroom lessons, information on PTA needs your help! students will be dismissed at 3 hurricane aid, and keep watch for We need more volunteers for this pm. Please remember that all fun activities/information for next event. I have included the PTA sign- children need to attend the week’s “Healthy Choices” week! If up genius. Thank you!!! you have any questions, feel free to festival with an adult. Take a contact me at 21-Planning Day No School for break from the action to bid on class [email protected]. Students baskets at FAME’s Annual Silent

Auction and Raffle in the cafeteria https://jaamontessori.wordpress.co from 3 pm – 6 pm that m/ 28-SAC Meeting @ 8:30-9:30 day. Proceeds will help maintain paraprofessionals in our Axson ______classrooms! Please see the attached summary for more ART ***Early Dismissal Dates*** information. Save money by pre- Our primary students are working October 26 @ 1:30 ordering your tickets and wristbands online at hard on a collaborative paper mural, after spending a few weeks working You can also receive www.axsonpta.org or by turning on our scissor and gluing skills. We from Mrs. Vanhoy by texting the attached pre-order form in to are running through our glue sticks @mrsvanhoy to 81010. your child's teacher. Pre-orders pretty quickly because of this, so if are due October 25th. We look you have any to donate to our Art forward to seeing you on November Studio, we would greatly appreciate 4th! it!

We are currently seeking volunteers to help with vision screening on Coaches Corner October 19th and 20th. We need I’ve attached Coach’s Notes people to check students in and out and to administer the short for all grade levels for next screening. If you can help, please week. sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/

Today I received information from about their annual Doodle for Google contest! This year's theme is "What I see for the future!".

They would like students interested This will be our 4th Annual in this contest to think about what Collection of Treats for Troops. they see for the future, maybe it's Children are invited to exchange clean energy, flying cars, faster their Candy for a prize transportation, world peace, 3-D and have the opportunity to write a printing, anything really! Using the thank you card to our military Google template that I have, they service members. In the past we can create their own Google Doodle have collected over 100+ pounds of based on their idea and 50-word candy and this year we are statement on what their idea is challenging our children to collect about. They then need you to sign it 150+ pounds for our local USO!! and they hand it back into me no Help support Treats for Troops! later than November 22nd, or We will take candy up to and the before Thanksgiving break. day of the Fall Festival, Friday November 4th from 1:30 to 6:00. If they win, they get a $30,000 scholarship for college, our school gets a $50,000 technology award, and your student would get to tour Google Headquarters, I have included the DCPS Parent , Android tablet, and Academy Fall Catalog and more! I have all information if you have any questions, and if your registration link. child is interested please have them come by my room and I will give http://dcps.duvalschools.org/Page/7 them a template. 398

Happy Doodling!! Visit www.duvalschools.org/ParentAcade Sarah Straus my to verify and register for classes. Art Educator PreK-5 J. Allen Axson Montessori #141 Member; Northeast Florida Art Education Association [email protected] (904) 992-3600 ext.118

Cecilia & Amy