One World Montessori School One World Montessori School 1170 Foxworthy Avenue 4343 Leigh Avenue San Jose, CA 95118 San Jose, CA 95124 (408)723-5140 (408)615-1254 (408)723-9443 (408)784-3303 FEBRUARY 2019 PRIMARY NEWSLETTER EVENTS TO TAKE NOTE OF IN FEBRUARY 2019 February 1, 2019: First day of the 2019-2020 closed enrollment First day of the 2019 summer school enrollment February 2, 2019: BAMA workshop in Petaluma - "Child, Disrupted": The Effects of Technology Overuse on Children's Development. February 8, 2019: Lunar New Year celebrated February 18 - 22, 2019: Presidents’ Week. No school. No daycare. February 28, 2019: Asia Immersion Day. End of the 2019-2020 closed enrollment ASIA STUDIES 2019-2020 CLOSED ENROLLMENT During this month, we will be We would like to remind you that working with materials closed enrollment for the 2019- related to the continent of 2020 school year will begin on Asia, which will culminate in February 1 st . We reserve the our Asia Immersion Day on month of February for the re- Thursday, February 28 th . We enrollment of currently enrolled children and encourage you to engage your children in any siblings prior to accepting new students conversation, reading, and cultural activities from our waiting list. Your re-enrollment related to Asia and its component countries. packet for the 2019-2020 school year will be distributed in your cubby/hanging folder the Looking at maps, eating new foods, listening beginning of February. to music, and discussing plants and animals from this region will create a better If you wish to re-enroll and/or enroll an understanding of what makes this continent additional child: unique. For older children, its fun to find all - Please read the Parent Handbook that the land and water forms, mountain ranges, accompanies the contract to be sure and notable points of interest (e.g., The Great that you are aware of any policy Wall of China). changes that have occurred. - Fill out the contract, indicating the A reading list of relevant books is available for program of your choice, and return it to you to source at your local library. the office signed by both parents or by the custodial parent in the case of sole custody, by February 28 th . Please make sure to indicate the payment plan you desire and make a choice about the BAY AREA MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION photo release on page 5. The contract should be accompanied by the $500.00 The Bay Area annual enrollment fee. Montessori Association - This reserves your child’s space for the (BAMA) is a 2019-2020 school year. professional organization dedicated to supporting all If you do not wish to re-enroll: Montessorians in the greater San - Please submit a written notice of Francisco Bay Area by providing educational withdrawal by February 28 th , or your programs, outreach and social activities. deposit will be forfeited. Withdrawal BAMA hosts workshops and activities forms are available in the lobby. throughout the school year featuring local - Verbal notice or e-mail cannot be professionals and exceptional speakers. accepted. - The security deposit cannot be applied One World Montessori sponsored to summer school. memberships for all parents and staff to this organization. We will be sure to let you know Before discussing changing schools with your about BAMA events of interest to Montessori child, please talk about the transition with parents. your child’s guides so that they can help make the change as positive as possible for all of the Please mark your calendars for their next children. We urge you to wait to tell your parent workshop: child about his/her new school until the end of the school year. This minimizes the level of "Child, Disrupted": The Effects of Technology stress and anxiety present in your child’s Overuse on Children's Development (Film learning environment. Please remember that Screening and Community Discussion) the withdrawal of an older sibling prior to the completion of the kindergarten year precludes When : Saturday, February 2 nd 9:00 am - the possibility of the reenrollment of any 12:00 pm younger siblings. Where : River Montessori 3880 Cypress Dr SUMMER SCHOOL Petaluma, CA This year, we will be For more information, please visit offering 7 sessions of http://www.bayareamontessoriassociation.co summer school, from July m/home.html 8th to August 23 rd . There will be no school and no daycare from August 26 th LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION to September 3 rd , as the staff uses this time to thoroughly clean and set-up the classrooms in On Friday, February preparation for the next school year, as well as 8th , we will be take the required CPR/first aid and disaster celebrating the Lunar preparedness training. The 2019-2020 school New Year. year will start on Wednesday, September 4 th , 2019. This year is the year of the pig. Wearing red for good luck is one way Enrollment forms are available in the lobby. to participate. Summer school enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and we encourage you not to If you have decorations and artifacts to share, wait until the last minute to register your please bring them by Thursday, February 7 th . children, as we expect to fill up quickly. The children will be participating in special Summer school is only available to students projects, including making dumplings and enrolling in the 2019-2020 school year. Asian artwork, exploring Asian musical instruments, and enjoying fireworks. We will ASIA IMMERSION DAY not be ordering pizza and will provide a festive Chinese meal instead. The meal will consist Asia Immersion Day will be of: observed on Thursday, - Vegetable chow mien (no egg) February 28 th . The following - Vegetable fried rice (no egg) families have already signed - Sweet and sour chicken (breaded in egg) up to help: - Mixed vegetables Please do not bring lunch unless your child does not want to eat the Chinese food. Presentation Provide food Half Day children are invited to stay for India: Harini Chakravarthy lunch and can be picked up at their normal Harini Chakravarthy Xiangzhi Che time (12:00 pm). Janki Dubal Madhu Dodda Rajeev Kavalapara Janki Dubal The following parents have offered to help: Vedanth Makarikoppa Megumi Hattori-Figi Satish Maktal Rajeev Kavalapara Presentation Provide food Darshinee Patel Nena Maidee Michael Chu Xiangzhi Che, Tu Sruti Ramnath Vedanth Makarikoppa Sheryl Zhang Thi Cam Nguyen, Riju Parikh Yuanyuan Tian, Sri Lanka: Sruti Ramnath Sisi Xing, Sheryl Meera Sangaramoorthy Veena Sandra Zhang Sachlene Singh China: Yuanyuan Tian Please contact your child’s teacher as soon as Yuanyuan Tian possible to confirm your availability. Please contact your child’s teacher as soon as possible to confirm your availability. We VALENTINE’S DAY: February 14, 2019 would also appreciate assistance anyone may be able to offer with additional presentations This year, once again, of other Asian countries not represented instead of exchanging above, Asian recipes, artifacts, pictures or cards and candies, the slides. If you will be bringing food, please let children will be working us know what you will be bringing. on a group mural. NO CARDS and NO GOODIES please. This saves paper SAVE THE DATE – FAMILY FUN NIGHT and time and allows us to focus on caring FUNDRAISER about each other and our world. Save the date for One World Montessori’s PRESIDENTS’ WEEK Family Fun Night We will honor fundraiser on Friday Presidents March 8 th , 2019 Washington and from 5pm – 8pm at Lincoln on Monday - the Leigh campus. Friday, February 18 th – 22 nd . There The evening will include dinner, bake sale, will be no school and silent auction and a puppet show. no daycare this week. Ticket prices – cash or check only (includes dinner; bake sale is extra): - $25 (adult) - $18 (child) Tickets are on sale now at the school office. At school, we check all children upon arrival Please invite your friends and neighbors to for any symptoms, and we isolate children join us; the more the merrier! who become ill during the school day and send them home as soon as possible. FREE HOUR OF DAYCARE Another thing we do at school is encourage thorough hand washing; we wash our hands When is the first half ($250) of your annual after using the bathroom and before and after donation due? The answer is found in this lunch, of course, but also after hands go in newsletter, so please read it thoroughly! mouths and after nose blowing, coughing, or any exposure to bodily fluids. Thorough hand The first two people to send an e-mail to the washing means rubbing warm soapy water office – [email protected] – with vigorously between hands long enough to sing the correct answer will win one free hour of the circle song. If you reinforce this practice daycare for one child or a credit of one hour of at home, you will help all of us stay healthy. volunteer time. Winners who select daycare must make arrangements to use their hour We empathize with working parents whose ahead of time with the Office Manager at your children’s illnesses interfere with them doing campus. their jobs, but we must insist that sick children stay at home. Please do not give them Tylenol to mask their symptoms and REFERRAL PROGRAM then send them to school – that just exposes all of us to illnesses. Don’t forget that One World offers a referral credit for any We would also like to remind you that the family who refers a new family to Primary Parent Handbook states in One World. Once the new Section 7, page 5 –Absence – Illness – Injury: student has been enrolled at One “…Children who arrive at school ill CANNOT World for 6 weeks, you will receive a credit be accepted into the classrooms.