The Weekly Star
Montessori Academy at Onesimo Hernandez #27
Principal's Corner
Hello Montessori Family,
We just completed week #26 and I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing week with family and friends. I am happy to return to our beautiful school and see the staff, parents and most of all, the CHILDREN! We are on the countdown for testing for K-2 along with 4 Saturday Schools sessions remaining on the calendar. Our testing week is April 23-26, 2019 right after our Inclement Weather Days (No School April 19 & 22). Let's make everyday count for children so the expectation is 100% attendance for MAOH. You make the difference bringing them to school everyday.
Your Proud-Dedicated Principal,
Lisa Vega
Majestic Monday: Tshirts available
Majestic Monday Spirit Shirts are now available!
Please see Mrs. Carranza in Room 109 or email her at macarranza@dallasisd.org to purchase your Spirit shirt for only $7! She has child and adult sizes immediately available for your family. Show your school pride by wearing your Majestic Monday shirt every week!
Thank you!
The Montessori Child
For more than a century, Montessori has been thriving around the globe, and contemporary research validates the effectiveness of the Montessori Method. Several key elements of the approach meet the educational goals today’s parents have for their children, including growing into capable people who will be have a strong sense of self, the ability to connect with others, and the potential to be productive throughout their lives.
With Montessori, that growth starts early. The early years (birth through age 6) are a critical time to set a strong foundation for who a child will become and the role she or he will play in the future.
A Montessori education develops students who are capable, accountable, knowledgeable people who have the strong sense of self they will need to thrive in the real world.
-American Montessori Society
Saturday School Dates:
Teachers will begin to provide tutoring on Saturdays. Invitations will be sent out directly from the teacher if your child will need to attend. All participants will require a permission slip with a parent signature.
Children will be provided breakfast and lunch. If you have any questions, please communicate with your child's teacher.
Time: 8:00-12:00 (staff)
Children: 8:30-11:30 (children)
March 23, 2019
March 30, 2019
April 6, 2019
April 13, 2019
Arts Partners Programs
Arts Partner Scheduled Activities: The following events below communicate the programs below for our children. All programs take place on the campus.
4/3 Stressbuster Yoga in the Classroom
5/8 Perot Museum Air and Weather
5/15 Perot Museum of Nature and Science All About Bug
GT Program: Ms. Sanders
First Grade March 18-22 Students will choose an animal they would like to research. Student will get an overview what is expected of their final product. Ask you child what animal they choose? Brainstorm with them how they can create the animal out of recycle material.
Second Grade Gifted and Talented Schedule Secret Lives in Public Spaces March 18-22 Student will discuss the expectation of final product. Students will brainstorm their Ideal playground. Students will learn the difference between private and public space. Students will their learn address. Students will tour school playground and discuss other things they would like for the school playground. Ask your child to recited and write their address.
Kindergarten Gifted and Talented Schedule Trend Spotting
March 18-22 Student will review what is Trend spotting. Students will tour the school spotting trends. Student will create an addition problem of the trend they spotted. Ask your child what trend they see in their environment?
Enrollment Updates: Ms. Cantu
PreK Registration is upon us!!!
PreK registration will begin April 1, 2019, by appointment only. If your child was offered a Pre-K seat for the 2019-2020 school year, please call the school office to schedule your appointment, 972-925-2700.
PreK registration will take place from April 1st through April 6th. Please bring the following documents to your appointment:
a. Proof of Residency - Gas bill, water bill, electric bill, mortgage or a lease agreement in the parent/guardian’s name
b. Birth Certificate
c. Immunization Records
d. Social Security Card (optional)
e. Parent/Guardian Identification – Driver’s license, state ID, passport, or military ID.
f. Proof of Income – provide the most current paystub or income document from employer for parents/guardians that receive an income.
g. Other PreK Eligibility Documents – SNAP, TANF, or Medicaid benefits letter, Military documentation, Foster/Conservatorship documentation, Chapter 3106 Star of Texas Award
Registraciones para Pre-K estan a la vuelta de la esquina!!!
Estaremos registrando estudiantes a partir de el 1ro de Abril del 2019, por cita solamente. Si su hijo/a fue ofrecido un lugar para el program de Pre-K para el ano escolar 2019-2020, por favor de llamar a la escuela para hacer una cita.
Registaciones seran del 1ro de Abril al 6 de Abril. Los documentos que deberan traer con usted seran los siquientes:
a. Prueba de domicilio - Factura de gas, agua, electricidad, hipoteca o un contrato de arrendamiento a nombre de los padres o tutores legales
b. Acta de nacimiento del estudiante
c. Registros de inmunización (vacunas)
d. Número de seguro social (opcional)
e. Identificación con fotografía del padre/madre o tutor - Licencia de conducir, identificación del estado, pasaporte, o documentación militar
f. Comprobante de ingresos - Comprobante más reciente de salario o el documento de ingresos del empleador para padres/tutores legales que reciben un ingreso
g. Otros documentos para admisión a prekínder - Documentación SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, Tarjeta de identificación militar, o documentación legal de la Corte indicando si el niño ha sido colocado bajo cuidado temporal, Capítulo 3106 Premio Estrella de Texas (si es applicable)
Dallas ISD School Uniform Policy: Reminder
The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees has approved the districts dress code policy that requires student uniforms for all elementary and middle school students.The required colors for elementary and middle school student uniforms are solid khaki, navy blue, or black for the bottom and white for the top. Schools may choose to add more than one solid color shirt other than white. The approved clothing items include shirts and blouses, turtleneck and polo-style shirts, slacks and pants, skirts and jumpers, shorts and capri pants, and jackets, cardigans, and sweaters.
Parents of students who qualify for free/reduced lunch may request a uniform assistance application at their child's school. The district will provide one uniform each year to each approved student. Please see Ms. Conley or Ms. Cano for assistance.
Monday and Friday only:
Majestic Monday: school spirit shirt and jeans
Spirit/College Friday: college swag shirt or school spirit shirt and jeans
Dallas ISD Student Handbook and Code of Conduct
Parents, please refer to following reference materials that are now available on-line and are no longer mass produced.
Student Handbook: https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/127
Student Code of Conduct: https://www.dallasisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001475/Centricity/Domain/11/code_of_conduct.pdf
Growth Mindset Learning
Eduardo Briceno states that many of us want our children to understand that we love them, and to believe that life can be fulfilling. Developing those beliefs will help them prosper. There is another powerful, research-based belief that will help children thrive. It is called a growth mindset.
What is a growth mindset?
Discovered by Stanford Professor Carol Dweck, Ph.D., a growth mindset is the belief that we can develop our abilities, including our intelligence, which is our ability to think. It is distinguished from a fixed mindset, which is the belief that abilities can’t change, such as thinking that some people can’t improve in math, creativity, writing, relationship-building, leadership, sports, and the like.
The mindset that we adopt leads to very different behaviors, improvement, and achievement. For example, research on adults shows that people who believe that good negotiators are made rather than born –a growth mindset about negotiation skills– persevere in tough negotiations, create more collective value, and capture more of the value in negotiations, as compared to those with a fixed mindset. Similarly, people who believe that leadership skills are developed –a growth mindset about leadership skills– feel inspired rather than threatened by other leaders, have higher confidence in their own ability to lead, and experience lower anxiety and higher performance in leadership activities. Managers who believe that personal qualities can change seek and welcome feedback more, notice changes in employee performance more accurately, and take on more coaching-oriented behaviors, leading to improved team capability and performance. And lots of research has shown that children with a growth mindset seek more effective learning strategies, work harder, persevere in the face of setbacks, and achieve higher competence.
Why does this happen?
It turns out that a fixed mindset, which is seeing abilities as fixed, leads people to see effort as a sign of inability and to feel badly about themselves when needing to expend effort, so they avoid it. But those with a growth mindset see effort as what makes us smart and capable, so they seek it. Second, people with a fixed mindset are most concerned with being judged by others as smart and talented, so they gravitate toward doing things they already know how to do quickly and perfectly. But those with a growth mindset can get bored when they’re doing something they already know how to do, instead preferring to challenge themselves to learn something new, which is necessary for growth and improvement. And when they encounter setbacks or failure, people with a fixed mindset tend to conclude they’re incapable, so to protect their ego, they lose interest and withdraw, while those with a growth mindset understand that learning something new involves struggling and making mistakes, so they persevere. If you’re interested in learning more, here are more articles and videos on the growth mindset.
How can we develop a growth mindset in our children?
Children learn whether abilities are fixed or malleable from their observations of the world. If we, adults, have a fixed mindset, we will behave and communicate in fixed-minded ways –such as shying away from challenges or talking about people as if their abilities are fixed. This will tend to encourage a fixed mindset in our children. For example, when we think that people are either smart or not, we may find ourselves praising our children for being smart, rather than for the effort or strategies that led them to success. We do that with our best intentions, in order to raise their confidence and self-esteem. But research shows that when we praise children for being smart, they adopt a fixed mindset (i.e. thinking that people are either smart or not), and as a result when things get hard for them they conclude that they are not smart and they experience higher anxiety, lower confidence, and lower performance. They also become less interested in learning, and more interested in showing what they already know how to do. While being told they’re smart may make them feel good in the short term, the deeper lesson they learn is that people are either smart or not, and when things get hard, they feel incapable.
We’ll be more successful in developing a growth mindset in our children if we also work to develop it in ourselves, which is never too late to do. How can we do so?
Monitor your self-talk. Pay attention to your own internal dialogue about abilities. When you see a highly capable person, do you recognize the hard work it took to develop that competence? When you or your child struggle to do something, do you tend to conclude that you can’t develop the needed ability, or that you haven’t developed it yet? When your child does something well, do you praise them for being talented or help them reflect on the behaviors that led them to success?
When you realize you’re thinking in a fixed minded way, observe what effect that thinking has on you, and remind yourself of what you’ve learned about the malleability of abilities and what it takes to develop expertise.
Become a role model learner. Children observe and imitate us. If we want them to be interested in learning and work hard to develop their abilities, we need to do the same ourselves. Setting learning goals, working hard to improve, and making our learning process visible to those around us are ways to demonstrate that effective effort is worth doing and leads to improved abilities. Talk about the challenges you are taking on, the mistakes you’re making, the lessons you’re learning, and your progress.
Be deliberate about the messages you send. When we feel uncomfortable calculating the tip on a restaurant bill and hand it off for someone else to calculate, it conveys that we think we can’t learn math and don’t work to develop our abilities. When we speak about other people as smart or naturally talented, or unfit for a particular area, it conveys that we have fixed mindsets, which prompts children to do the same. When we cover up our failures or mistakes, rather than reflect on and discuss them, it conveys that mistakes are a sign of inability, rather than a consequence of challenge and an opportunity to learn.
Some people enjoy ongoing learning and growth as a source of fulfillment throughout their lives, one that nobody can take away from them.
PTO: Updates
This is the times and sign up platform for the Room Parent and Teacher collaboration info session.
- March 20th - 7 am at the library (before school)
- March 21st- 3:10 pm at the library (after school)
sign up here: https://doodle.com/poll/v9r2mc85dgehv8wd
Save the Date
April 2 Group Pictures
April 6 PTO Garage Sale
April 23-26 Terra Nova/Super Testing
April 19 & 22, 2019 INCLEMENT WEATHER NO SCHOOL
April 23 & 30 Clubs/Enrichment
April 25 Prep U Night, PTO, OTI Magnet Job Fair
April 29 SBDM
May 27, 2019 MEMORIAL DAY NO SCHOOL
May 29, 2019 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
MAOH Attendance Celebrations
We are so excited to celebrate our students who arrive to school everyday and on time. Each week during the months of March, April and May, MAOH will acknowledge a classroom with the highest percentage of attendance. In order for that to be your favorite classroom, all students must be present for their class to win! As a celebration of attendance, we will highlight those percentages in our Weekly Star newsletter. Classes will also compete for numerous weekly incentives.
Those incentives include but are certainly not limited to following:
Outdoor bubbles with wands
Extra Recess
Popsicle Celebration
Sidewalk Chalk Drawing
Water Balloon Toss
Dance Off
Popcorn Snack
Don't forget DISD's "Strive for No More Than Five" Campaign
While we want all students to aim for perfect attendance, Dallas ISD recognizes there are times when students must miss school. The "Strive For No More Than Five" campaign engages and challenges students and parents to commit to limiting absences to no more than 5 days for the school year. Having five or less absences for the school year is "great attendance" and we believe all students can do it!
Each Dallas ISD student, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, who achieves the "Strive For No More Than Five" goal for the 2018-2019 school year will receive special district recognition.
Click the following link for more information https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/54629