Dear Wauwatosa Montessori School Community:
We are so excited for Trunk or Treat tonight (6-7:30 p.m.)! Hope to see you there. (= Thank you to the PTSA for sponsoring and organizing this event for our community!
Tonight and Saturday the Whitman & Montessori Players are putting on Eerie Academy; the show starts tonight at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. (in the Whitman Cafeteria)! Congratulations to Liam Owens-Meyer, Camryn Mundschau, Harper Mundschau, Katie Kriegl, Elleanor Berghammer, and Edward Berghammer for being part of the cast and crew.
Our Lower Elementary Students had a great time at the Mequon Nature Preserve this week as an extension of their learning about leaves. They studied why the leaves change colors as well as scientific classification of leaves. Check out the pictures below! Thanks to Ms. Yifan and Ms. Brown for coordinating this experience! Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to be chaperones!
I want to give a shout out to Chris Stasiewicz, Ryan Fritch, Edward Berghammer, and Smith Wooldridge for earning admittance into the UWM Honors Band. Thank you to Mr. Burmeister for promoting this opportunity. The students will have the special opportunity of working with guest conductors from universities from the Midwest and then will present a concert at the UWM Performing Arts Center.
Nature’s Classroom Institute Reminders (for Upper Elementary and Adolescent Program families):
-NCI portal registration: If you haven’t yet, please complete the NCI Portal Registration by Friday, October 25th (Monday, October 28th at the latest). Please start the Overnight Student Registration" on this link: https://www.discovernci.org/registration. There is a parent walkthrough video on that page as well.
-payment can be made by check to Wauwatosa Montessori School (or if you prefer to pay through Infinite Campus, please email pallinme@wauwatosa.k12.wi.us and murph1ch@wauwatosa.k12.wi.us and we will make that option available to you.
-AP is selling special 2025 calendars to raise money for NCI! Pre-order yours today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHNHl_jZSrI1iy4MgtaRa5iOwqzvxHl4d-s5AJyQ5q1MmMuQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
-Packing list
-If you are interested in purchasing a case(s) of Seroogy’s chocolate bars, please submit your orders by Oct. 24, as we have a strict deadline set by Seroogy's for their fall order. Payments should be made to Elisabeth Callan (Sean and Ailis’s mom) via Venmo https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3498599694468957806&created=1729631399.
Virtue of October:
Courteous
Staff Members of the Week: Katie Myers and Susan Starkman!
Club Opportunities!
Art Club (started by Grace Schiller and Natalia Albert)
Open to Lower Elementary Students
After school for one more Tuesday in the art room: 3:30-4:30 p.m. 10/29
Advisor: Michael Albert (Natalia Albert’s dad)
Please email Ms. Pallin if you would like your student to participate
Engineering Club (started by Harrison Fischer)
Open to Adolescent Program and Upper Elementary
October Wednesdays from 11:30-12 (during UE and AP recess) 10/30
Please email Ms. Pallin if you would like your student to participate
Battle of the Books (BOB)
Battle of the Books is a fun and learning intensive experience! BOB is a statewide reading challenge at three levels (elementary 4-6, middle 6-8, and high school 9-12. 6th graders choose their level) Students read books deeply so that they retain information about plot, character, theme, setting, and other elements. Permission slips are due today Oct 25. We will also need parent coaches for helping with small groups (no experience necessary). Thank you Sally Courtney for leading this program again this year. See link below for more information or contact Jenice Carolan at carolaje@wauwatosa.k12.wi.us.
Enjoy the beautiful fall weather this weekend!
Melissa Pallin
Principal
