Parent's Place

"The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself."- Maria Montessori

Don't forget to use your Locals Care Card. When you use this card at participating local merchants, 4-8% of your purchase will go directly to Desert Montessori School. For those of you who may have received cards from other non-profit organizations, please be aware that you must use the card we provided you with in order to receive the proceeds. If you use another card, the money will go to that participating organization.

THANK YOU TO SANDRA AND DIANE for organizing the Scholastics Book Fair in March. Once again, we gained a little over $400 in profit and were able to get all the books the teachers indicated on their wish lists, filling- out our library book-by-book. Thank you to Dahlia for organizing our library!

THANK YOU (again) DIANE for organizing the Family Film Festival in June-and thank you to all the volunteers and sponsors who helped to make the even a great success. The Film Festival raised $5500.00 for the school.

June Happenings:

Summer Break Camp

A summer break camp is being offered by Christina and Autumn for the week of June 25-29. The camp is open to 15 children. The hours are 8:30-3:30, and the cost is $175/wk. or $150/wk for siblings. Sign up is on the PS3 bulletin board. Please sign up by May 18th. Payment in full is due on May 18th as well.

Summer Camp

OZ will be offering a summer camp at Desert Montessori this summer. Details to come.

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that we have hired two very strong and talented teachers to fill the upper elementary positions. We look forward to a great year next year.

Have a great and relaxing summer!


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Here's a little poem to help your kids (and maybe you) with parts of speech....

Three little words you often see
Are articles-an, a, and the.
A noun is the name of anything,
As school or garden, hoop or swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of noun,
As great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand-
Her head, his face, your arm, my hand.
Verbs tell of something being done-
To read, count, laugh, sing, jump or run.
How things are done the adverbs tell,
As slowly, quickly, ill, or well.
Conjunctions join the word together,
As men and women, wind or weather.
The prepositions stand before,
A noun, as in or through the door.
The interjections show surprise,
As Oh! How Pretty!, Ah! How wise!
The whole are called the nine parts of speech.
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

Isabel, age 8


The Emergency Plan is located on the back of the parent handbook as well as the back of the school phone book. Please familiarize yourself with it.