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Shaw Montessori Newsletter / Week of February 5th, 2023
- Message From Principal Engdall
- Sibling Enrollment 2023/2024
- Sweetheart Dance
- Valentine Cookie Grams
- Shaw Science Fair
- Garden Update
- Message From Shaw PTA
- Shaw Calendar
- February Meal Menu
- District Information
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Message From Principal Engdall
Greetings Shaw Community,
We cannot wait to celebrate our Sweethearts on Friday evening, 2/10 with dances and tacos.
The Pre K-5th grade dance will be held in the cafeteria, the 6th-8th grade dance will be held in our gymnasium. Both dances will be held from 6-8 PM.
On Saturday, Mr. Moench will hold a Parent Workday in the garden 2/11. Please see his write up below for more details. We look forward to seeing you at one or both events.
Wednesday, our district’s Child Nutrition team did a lesson on African food. Our 7/8th grade students prepared and enjoyed eating plantains. In middle school the results of the rich Montessori Culture work that begins in preschool is culminated in a yearlong project where the students create BEAUTIFUL hand drawn maps of our world. This project is called “Mapping the World by Heart”. Each month a different continent is fully drawn and labeled. The culture, geography, language, commerce is also studied. The maps will be on display during the 8th grade promotion ceremony.
Please mark your calendars and join us for a Community Outreach Meeting with the Phoenix #1 Governing Board members. The meeting will be held in the Shaw cafeteria on Thursday, February 23rd from 5:00-6:00.
Wishing you the best,
Principal Engdall
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Sibling Enrollment 2023/2024
If your student has a sibling that is turning 3 or 4 for the next school year, and you would like to enroll them into our Primary Program, please fill out the attached Sibling Wait List application. 3 and 4-year-old siblings are given consideration first – with concurrent enrollment of older sibling.
Submit applications to Claire.Kooyahoema@phxschools.org no later than March 13th for consideration for the 23/24 school year. Thank you!
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Get your orders in before the deadline this Friday the 10th!
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Greetings!
Another week at Shaw Montessori School with our wonderful plants and animals! We have been amending the furrows in the field garden and prepping for our first plantings of 2023. The 7th/8th grades have been a great help per usual. Even Wheelington’s class has committed extra hours for work in the field garden. A HUGE thank you to all three classrooms!
Our goats have reached the final week of their Shaw vacation. They will go back to the farm sometime next week. I am sure they will miss our Shaw students and all the free-ranging they were allowed to do on our field. Bless their hearts for bringing us so much joy and a great learning opportunity. Next year we will host some more visiting animals. In the spring, we will incubate and hatch more baby chicks.
Parent workday is right around the corner! We will build a path along the perimeter of the field garden. I am asking parents to donate flagstone or any type of block. This includes pavers and old terracotta pieces. Please email me if you have any block or know of a supplier. And sign up for our workday by following the link below: https://signup.com/go/vkqxzML
There will be pulled pork sandwiches for lunch thanks to one of our parents, Lenny. See you all there!
Here is my email in case you need to reach me: james.obrien-moench@phxschools.org
Home Depot gift cards are always appreciated. Continue bringing your aluminum cans, coffee grounds, eggshells, and bottle caps. You can leave them on the table outside the front office, except for the bottle caps. Have your child drop them in their classroom bottle cap bin.
We will also accept any tool donations for the field garden and/or ODE.
Thanks Matt for the paver donations!
Mr. Moench
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Parents! Do you pride yourself on your salsa recipe? Do you think yours is the best? Put it to the test with our salsa competition at the carnival! The first 10 to sign up will be able to compete for a prize for the most votes for your salsa! Sign-up coming soon!
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