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April 28,2023

FSDB Parent/ Family Climate Survey

Hello parents and families!

As I shared last month in your child’s school newsletter, it is time for our Spring FSDB Parent/Family Climate Survey! Please take time to fill out the survey before Friday, May 19th. We want to know how we can do things better and what we should celebrate. The educational experience we provide to our students will continue to grow and thrive with your help and partnership. We are excited to hear from!

Sincerely,

Tracie C. Snow
FSDB President

Survey Links

Parent Climate Survey in English

Encuesta de clima para padres en español

View School Climate Survey for Parents in ASL

FSDB Academic Calendar 2023-2024

Please click the link below to view/download the 2023-2024 academic calendar.

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FSDB Academic Calendar 2023-2024 (English)

FSDB Calendario Académico 2023-2024 (Español)

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Dear ELC Families,

It's SO hard to believe that the school year is coming to an end. This year has flown by.

The last day of school is Friday May 26. ELC SUMMER CAMP 2023 is scheduled for June 5 - 16. More information and a link to register for ELC Summer Camp is below.

We have 3 big events coming up in May - Muffins with Mom*, ELC Graduation and our field trip to Splash Park. *Muffins with Mom will be immediately followed by a presentation by our FSDB Literacy Specialists on The Science of Reading for ELC parents.

For information check the newsletter and flyers/invitations in your child's backpack for more details and talk to your child's teacher if you have any questions.

It's getting HOT outside

Please send a reusable water bottle everyday - with WATER in it.

DO NOT send milk, juice or soda in the water bottle.

Sun Protection - If you want to wear a hat or sunscreen send then to school, clearly marked with your child's name, and we will keep it in your child's cubby to wear outside at recess.

Please contact your child's teacher with any questions!

As always, thank you for sharing your children with us!

Gail

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS

May 5: Muffins with Moms, Grandmas, Aunties and others - 8:30-10:00

May 5: Presentation "The Science of Reading" presented by Literacy Specialists 10:00-11:00

May 12: ELC Graduation: arrival 9:30 graduation begins at 10:00 - all are welcome to attend

May 15: NO SCHOOL

May 25: Field trip to SPLASH PARK - departing school at 8:30 a.m.

ELC SUMMER CAMP 2023

ELC SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION

You MUST register your child for ELC Summer Camp.

https://forms.gle/hz4U6pCeagrQcRdm8

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ELC SUMMER CAMP INFORMATION:

SCHEDULE: Our daily schedule will be 8:00-3:30 M-TH and 8:00-2:00 on Fridays.

Drop Off will be: 7:30-7:50 and Pick Up will be 2:30-3:30 (M-TH and at 2:00 on Fridays)

We will play outside every morning and start our work day at 9:00 a.m. in our classrooms.

We will swim in the big pool M-TH afternoons 12:45-2:00

*If your child wears a pull-up or diapers, he/she will have water play outside on the ELC patio.

UNIT STUDY: Our unit study during Summer Camp 2023 will be OCEAN and OCEAN ANIMALS

WHAT TO BRING EVERYDAY: (all items clearly marked with child's name)

water bottle - with only water in it
bathing suit and towel
change of clothes - to leave at school during camp
sunscreen and/or hat
lunch box - we will NOT have lunch served from the cafeteria. We will have snacks if anyone forgets to bring a lunch (remember - the ELC is a PEANUT/NUT and EGG free zone - please do not send peanut butter sandwiches, crackers, or cookies)

ELC SPRING FLING 2023 - THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT A SUCCESS!

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Montessori Moments

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Tens Board

Nastia has completed the Tens Board. This work introduces her to the names for the tens quantities: “twenty”, “thirty”, “forty”…”ninety” etc. It also helps her to realize how the numbers progress from one ten to the next. Next steps will be to connect name, quantity, and symbol for the numbers 11-99

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Pouring Water

Reuben is pouring water. Pouring is a foundational activity in the Montessori classroom. It not only builds independence, but also the careful precision required to succeed at a pouring task and helps the children to develop self control using slow, purposeful movement. This activity also refines hand-eye and fine motor coordination. Because young children are highly motivated to repeat their activities, Reuben has multiple opportunities to practice concentration as he pours liquids and dry materials.

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Knobbed Cylinders

Ethan, Violet and Ava are working together to complete 3 knobbed cylinder blocks. This complicated work includes 30 cylinders that each fit into their corresponding hole. This activity builds visual discrimination of dimensions - the children must notice minute difference in length and diameter. It also indirectly prepares a child for handwriting (see how they are grasping the knobs on the cylinders?) by building and refining fine-motor skills.

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Cards and Counters

Elena is learning to identify odd and even numbers using the Cards and Counters work. This is a concrete representation of odd and even numbers. Elena has been taught how to set up counters in two rows, then run fingers through them. Evens have exactly 2 rows and her finger can go "through", odds are uneven and her finger "stops" at the odd counter.

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Pink Tower

Rebeka is working to complete the pink tower. The pink tower has ten pink wooden cubes that differ in all three dimensions - width, height and weight. The size of each cube increases progressively from 1 cubic cm through 10 cubic cm. Rebeka mixes them up and then builds them into a tower from the largest to the smallest.

After she is able to consistently build the tower in size order, she will be exposed to sensorial language - small, smaller, smallest, and large, larger, largest. This work helps Rebeka to refine her fine motor skills and helps to prepare her mathematical mind.

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Tapping with a mallet

Ellie is tapping pushpins into a corkboard. Hammering involves both fine and gross motor skills - she is required to move her arm while gripping the mallet with her fingers. It also involves visual-spatial processing as she has to look at the item and determine how far she has to move the hammer to hit it.

CHANGES TO THE ELC SNACK AND LUNCH POLICIES

The ELC is now officially a NUT FREE ZONE.

That means - please do not send peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter cookies, snacks with peanut butter etc. Our policy excludes ALL tree nuts and peanuts - that includes almonds, cashews and walnuts. The cafeteria is aware of this change and is no longer providing the ELC any food or snacks that contain nuts.

ELC 2021-22 End of the Year Video

a little girl in a blue dress is laying down on her back on the field outside looking at the camera - she looks tired.

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