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Seasonal Reminders
by Maple Tree
The snowflakes and the tempatures are falling and winter is on the way! A good time it seems for a few seasonal reminders. We will still be going outside on a daily basis unless the wind chill is below 20 or it is raining, please send clearly labeled winter clothing for your child. Snow pants, boots, mittens and hats should be all marked with your child’s name and these items may be left in a bag at school instead of transported daily. Also, many students wear slippers during the winter months. The slippers should be non-distracting, labeled and can also be left at school. ... Read more
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Morning Drop Off
by Maple Tree
Thank you Tricia, for sending a reminder to our parents about A.M. drop off. I do regret that in my excitement over all our new programs for 2008, I did not cover this well at Parent Night. I thought it was included in our August Newsletter, but I was mistaken, it was in September’s. Many of you may remember this drop off process from past years, it has worked very well. When you pull in to drop off, pull up as far as you can. Along the fence and in the north parking spaces, form 2 lines. Then blend into one ... Read more
Parent Education
by Maple Tree
We are planning several events for parents to attend during this coming school year. Please mark your calendars for the following events: October 7th…6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Savor the Season will be presenting an informational evening about Nutrition and Organic Foods. Leza will be hosting this event which will also include an optional $7.00 dinner fundraiser for the Children’s Habitat. Reservations for the dinner plate are recommended! Also, Jackie Adams has arranged for samples of an upcoming fundraiser of Certified Fair Trade chocolates, coffees and teas to be available at this event. Sounds too good to miss! January 17th…1:00 ... Read more
Parent Night
by Maple Tree
We would like to thank you for the wonderful attendance and support on Parent Night. We are so pleased with your response to the many exciting new ventures for the 2008/2009 school year. If you were unable to attend, here are some highlights: Savor the Season, our new hot lunch provider, presented a wonderful tasting selection of their very high quality, home cooked lunches. The food, focused on natural, local and organic ingredients, was beautifully prepared and delicious. Their presentation was highly successful and we are looking forward to many tasty meals. Chef Leslie Owens was on hand to discuss ... Read more
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Email Problems
by Maple Tree
We are being blocked by certain email servers. These include: Comcast, ATT & Sbcglobal. We have tried a number of things with some parents and these solutions didn’t resolve the problems. Please work with your email server to unblock us. Our email is: info@mapletree.test please email us when you have resolved the issue with your server. Another easy solution would be to get a hotmail or yahoo email account, these are working wonderfully. Please email us your new email address, if you choose this solution. Thank You for working with us to resolve this issue. Kim Koehn
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Pizza Fridays
by Maple Tree
Fridays will be Pizza Day at Maple Tree Montessori. The Upper Elementary will organize and run a year long fundraiser for their classroom by ordering, selling and distributing pizza by the slice. We don’t have all the details yet because this is a class project and will be set up by the class. The hot lunch program from Savor the Season will be available on Mondays and Wednesdays. The pizza will be served on Fridays. The Upper Elementary class will determine how the raised money is to be spent, we will keep you posted!
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Suzuki Violin
by Maple Tree
We are happy that many of our parents have expressed a strong interest in establishing a Suzuki Violin program at our Maple Tree Montessori. If you have not responded and are interested we encourage you to respond as soon as possible. We will be tallying up the expected price and class size for the group lessons, time needed for individual lessons and the number of instruments that need to be purchased for students. Our plan is to make equipment available for lease to students and for this we need to have a pretty close count of the number of interested ... Read more
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Hot Lunches for 2008
by Maple Tree
We are pleased to announce that we will be offering Hot Lunch as an option on Mondays and Wednesdays this school year. The company we have chosen to provide our lunch service is “Savor The Season”. We are very excited about the choices that they are offering us and the fact they they provide natural and organic foods whenever possible,with a strong emphasis on locally grown foods. We have the menu for September and they will be emailed to all parents who have submitted their email address. (you can do so by sending it to mapletree@cac.net) The menus will also ... Read more
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Upper Elementary Teacher Announced, Meeting on July 14th
by Maple Tree
We have decided on an Upper Elementary teacher for our new classroom. Debra Babiarz has been working as an assistant in the Lower Elementary and much to our delight, has decided to take the Upper Elementary training this summer. Debra is an experienced state certified Elementary teacher. She is well known to the children and has years of experience teaching this age group. Debra is currently taking the classes at Michigan Montessori Teacher Education Center and will be doing a mentored internship this year at our school. In addition to the training program supervising teachers, Melissa Boffi will be mentoring ... Read more
Children’s Habitat Project Progress
by Maple Tree
We want to thank all of the parents who came and worked with us on Saturday, June 21st, our Habitat looks great!! We installed the stump circle, the bird feeding area, developed trails, constructed and planted raised beds and even built a bridge!! Thanks to all of your hard work, our backyard is a wonderful place for children to play, learn, reflect and connect to the natural world. Thanks again to the Pearsall, Deuter, Adams, Minor, Cherry and Armstrong families for all their hard work!! Also thanks to the Deuter, Rue and Myers families we now have bracelets for sale ... Read more