Carroll Creek Communicator

Dear CCMPCS Community,

Thank you for your continued support of our children throughout the month of April. We especially enjoyed seeing many

of you at our Book Fair and Parent Educa-tion Night! We hope you can utilize the books and Montessori tools you obtained

to support school achievement at home. I have stated this

before, but I think it never hurts to repeat it….when parents are involved in their children's education, both children and

parents are likely to benefit. In fact, researchers report that parent participation in

their children's school-ing frequently enhances children's self-esteem,

improves children's academic achievement,

improves parent-child relationships, helps parents develop posi-

tive attitudes towards school, and provides better under-

standing of the schooling process. With that said, let’s keep up the involvement and focus on the best teaching and learning possible throughout May and June!

School News:

Month of the Young Child News: We have showcased many

children’s talents, hobbies, and interests during our Morning TV program. Our children have impressed us! Thank you for the support you have shown to our many special guests.

Parents, please help keep our floor-ways as pristine as pos-sible when you are volunteering. Please seek assistance when moving furniture so we can avoid scratching the

floors. We appreciate your cooperation with this.

As the weather warms up, many more of our families are parking and walking into the school building. Continue to

mindful of the traffic patterns during arrival

and dismissal and always be aware of your sur-roundings when backing up. Our children’s safety depends on it!

CALENDAR

April 30 2 hour-Early Dismissal

May 1 Whole School Picture

May 3 Primary Field Trip: Green Meadows

May 6-10 Teacher Appreciation Week and Respect for Law Enforcement Week

May 10, 9:00 a.m. Community Coffee

May 14, 7:00 p.m. GC Meeting

May 21 Lower El Field Trip: Air & Space Museum

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Principal’s News

Thank you to Liz Seal, Janice Kominski, Melissa Karlicek, Caroline Liebowitz, and Martina Adkins for making our Earth Day celebration during recess a fun and educational event! A special thanks to Liz who donated the organic soil, biodegradable pots and seeds! Those purple bean seeds are awesome, I look forward to watching them grow.

Our last Community Coffee was a great time to meet with awesome people and to garner valuable input. One sugges-tion was to move the times of the cof-fees around to make them more accessi-ble to more people. A great suggestion! We are going to hold the next Coffee on the Friday morning before the next Gov-erning Council Meeting. That will be Friday morning May 10th at 9am, im-mediately after drop off, in Classroom 1. I hope you can join us.

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We celebrated Earth day this week with special activities during recess. Your child may have brought home a planting or some other artifact from their learning. Thank you to Melissa Karlicek, Liz Seal, Mar-tina Adkins, Janice Kominski, Caroline Leibowitz and Michael Beth Edwards.

Our Book Fair has also been a huge success. Thank you to Caroline Leibowitz and Cynthia Corona for all of the hard work!

Thank you to Tibet Riley and family for their work in getting our first set of cabinets installed in Ms. Moore’s room. They did a fantastic job!

Don’t forget, on April 30th we will dismiss two hours early at 1:45pm.

We will celebrate Respect for Law Enforcement day on May 10th. The Frederick City Police De-partment will be at our building throughout the day. We will start with a live morning interview with the chief, which will be broadcasted via CCM TV. Then we will have a outdoor assembly with many members of the city police joining us! This will be an awesome learning event for all!

On May 31st we will hold a new student orienta-tion, from 1:00 to 4:00pm, for any incoming stu-dents in the 2013-2014 academic year. Ms. Si-mons will be making appointments for our new students and their families. Please call our main office if you have any questions

Our last day of school is scheduled for June 17th. We will dismiss 2 hours early on this date. Re-port cards will also be issued on this date. Please mark your calendars.

Upcoming Events:

April 22-26: Book Fair at CCMPCS

April 30: 2-hour Early Dismissal

May 1: Whole School Picture

May 3: Primary Field Trip (Green Meadows)

May 6-10: Teacher Appreciation Week

May 6-10: Respect for Law Enforcement Week

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May 10: Law Enforcement Assembly with Frederick City Police Department

May 10: Community Coffee (9:00am)

May 14: GC Meeting (7:00pm)

May 21: Lower Elementary Field Trip-Air and Space Museum

May 24: School Improvement Meeting (3:00pm)

May 27: No School Memorial Day

May 29: Dr. Alban, Frederick County Public Schools’ Superintendent, visits CCMPCS

May 31: New Student Orientation

June 3: Earth Space Science Lab Field Trip-3rd Grade

June 4: Earth Space Science Lab Field Trip-1st Grade

June 5: Earth Space Science Lab Field Trip-2nd Grade

June 10: 3rd Grade Field Trip (SERC)

June 17th: Last day of school (2 Hour Early Release for K-3)

Yours in teaching and learning,

Giuseppe Di Monte Principal Carroll Creek Montessori Public Charter School Follow me on Twitter: @ccmpcsppal

May 10th is a big day in that is also the day of the MMCI Annual Fun(d)Raising Auction. There is so much awesome going into this event, I real-ly hope everyone can make it out that evening at the Talley Center for fabulous food, finds, friends and fun.

Thank you also to everyone who is contributing

to the garden effort. Ground will be breaking

soon!

Thank you,

Michael Beth Edwards

CCMPCS Governing Council Chair

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Counseling Corner

Hi CCMPCS Families,

Tonight my daughter requested one of her

favorite stories before bedtime. She selected a

story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean

Covey. I started to read this book to her long

before she could understand its powerful

message. And now years later, these true-to-

life stories have become part of our common

language.

The story we read tonight was about the pow-

er of synergy (Habit #6 - Synergize). In kid-

friendly terms, together is better. The story

recognizes the importance of valuing other's

strengths and learning from them. When

faced with a problem, seeking out the help of

others is vital. A team can create better solu-

tions than anyone of us can alone.

After reading to her, I reflected on this mes-

sage of together is better. I am so proud to be

a part of the CCMPCS community. I am hon-

ored to watch the amazing work that has gone

on in our school with our teachers and fami-

lies. The dedicated spirit of our entire

CCMPCS family truly shines through in every

aspect of our school. This year we have laid

the foundation of a trusting and safe environ-

ment for our kids and I am excited to see that

grow for the remainder of this year and on

into the next. Together as a team, we have ac-

complished so much. Together as a team, we

will continue to learn and grow. Together tru-

ly is better.

Yours,

Deb Herbaugh Counselor, CCMPCS

Another Dimension In the fourth quarter we are exploring sculpture. Our children are learning about three dimen-sional form and the variety of mediums and materials they can use to create in the round.

After creating a hand-painted, paper sculp-ture, all students began a mask making project. Primary classes made paper masks embel-lished with a variety of materials as they viewed, described, discussed and drew facial expressions and learned about the expressive Hahoe Masks of Korea.

Lower Elementary classes are using papier mache to develop animal masks as they learn about the Pre Columbian masks of Mexico which depicted animals and were worn during ceremonial ritu-als. After discussing ideas about what animals symbolize, children reflected on their own per-sonality traits and chose an animal that best rep-resents them. These works are in progress so please visit the art blog to see the children’s work when it is finished. http://artccmpcs.blogspot.com/

Thank you for the generous donations of recyclables!