Sundrops Montessori School - Isle Of Palms, SC

Sundrops Summer Camp

Sundrops Summer Camp schedule is as follows:June 2nd through June 21st & July 7th through July25th... You can sign your child/children up at school or via e-mail!
Camp cost is $125 weekly or $300 for June or July 3 week sessions. Older siblings are welcome!

Enrollment for Fall 2008 -2009

Dear Parents,
If you would like your child to attend in the fall , please fill out the re-enrollment form and turn it in with $150.00 supplies fee by 1/31. This reserves your child's position for the 2008 - 2009 school year. We will open enrollment to public on February 1st. Please feel free to contact Ms. Shannon with any questions. Thanks again!

THANK YOU!!!!!

WOW! Thanks to all of our children and parents for such wonderfully thoughtful gifts. We are truly blessed and appreciate all of your generosity! Have a great holiday!

South Carolina Montessori Alliance

Our first conference of the year is right around the corner. On October 12 & 13th the Sundrops Staff will be attending the SCMA conference in Columbia. If you are interested to see what we will be learning about you can check out there website @ www.scmontessori.org!

Low Country Montessori Educators Meeting

***** from the last LCME meeting:

The next event is the SCMA Conference in Columbia on October 12 & 13th.... I think we get about 5 or 6 hours

www.SCMontessori.org

Local November workshop is November 8th @ Oak Grove Montessori 4:15 - Topic: Field Trips - 2 hours credit

December 1st (Saturday) 10:00 am Material Group for Geography and Multicultural Enrichment - 3 credit hours

Professional Development _ Waseca and Zoophonics

We all want to assist in raising funds for Lillard in January and discussed doing a fundraiser @ the Holiday Farmers Market.

Trinity - January TBA Assistant & Support Staff training.

If you know anyone who would like to be informed of our meeting please invite them and send me their e-mail and I will add them to the list.

Take care,

Shannon

Note from Ms. Jax!

Hey Parents!

Just wanted to let you know how yesterday went and what my plans for next week are. Yesterday we learned about the torso, spine, arms, and legs, elbows and knees. We spent some time talking about the interconnectedness of the body. Then we applied this to making our people puppets. The kids seemed to really enjoy the process and tying the brads together (to make the joints) was good fine motor skill work. Next week I plan on bringing in a story to integrate into our time and the kids will then have the chance to decorate their finished puppets and take them home.

Hope you are having a great week!

jax.

Creative Spanish with Ms. Andonia

We always begin with some familiar songs and prompt/response.We
> have a new "Hola" song this year. We are singing (instead of the Hola greeting)...Buenos Dias (good morning), Buenos Tardes (good afternoon) and Buenos Noches (good night). We then did some kid-yoga in Spanish to move our bodies. We did the sun position (El Sol), we did the full moon position (La Bella Luna), we did the airplane position (El Avion),we did Estrellas (the star position) and we did the Tree (El Arbol)..we call it Arbol Difficil (the tricky tree) because it is a little hard to do! We also do "respiras grande"...deep breaths...from time to time. And, of course, tortugas!
> We talked about Numeros (1-20), the colores, el tiempo (the weather), Los continentes.
> We talked about different kinds of clothes (ropas). Vestidas (dresses), Camiseta (shirt), cortos (shorts), pantalones (long pants), faldas (skirts), calcetines (socks) zapatos (shoes), abrigos (coats), sombreros (hats), and Pallamas (pajamas). We did a game to talk about who was wearing what. Then we used the color flags (in Spanish) to determine who was wearing which colors.
> We finished up with a story called FIESTA. It is a counting story (participatory) that progresses through the steps a group of children take to fill a Pinata in preparation for a *****pleanos (birthday party.)

School Full of Readers!

Kudos to our parent volunteers! We have such a large group of readers (over half of the enrollment) that our parent volunteers are such an asset! Thanks goes out to Ms. Mandy, Ms. Angela, Ms. Lara and Ms. Sarah! We appreciate your time and efforts!

So far, Sooooo Great!

What a great start to our school year. All of the children have been busy and engaged in their environment. We are all so pleased with their interaction within their community. Thank you for all of your involvement and support.

Snack Week Calendar

The snack week calendar is posted under topics. I hope this is helpful! Thanks!