Center for Creative Education
A Montessori Education Charter School Program
Mary Ann Green, Director
A view of the class rooms from the office.
PARENTAL REMINDERS!!!
Please! Please!
Make sure that all phone numbers for immediate contact if your child is ill, etc., are CURRENT. This is important information for us to have in our records! If there are changes, please contact the Office as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you arrive after the gate is closed in the AM, legally you are responsible to walk your child to the Office and sign your child in. Your child must have a late slip in order to enter class. Sending your child directly to class or into the Office alone is unacceptable. Thank you for your attention to this policy.
Early Dismissal and Parent-Teacher Conferences – Thursday, May 27 and Friday, May 28
Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place on the afternoons of Thursday, May 27 and Friday, May 28. Sign-up will occur at drop-off and pick-up.
Please be aware these are half-day school sessions scheduled for Thursday, May 27 and Friday, May 28. Early dismissal time for pre-school and kindergarten is 12:30 PM and for elementary classes is 12:45 PM.
Change in Kindergarten Program for 2010-11
As you have learned from all forms of media, the State of Arizona, as many other states in the nation, currently is experiencing a financial shortfall of epic proportions. In an attempt to address this economic crisis, the state has made severe cuts in the Education budget. One of these cuts eliminates the funding of full-day kindergarten programs. Therefore, charter schools must determine how to fund their own individual programs.
The Center for Creative Education will continue to serve the community by providing a tuition-free half-day morning kindergarten. A full-day program will be offered requiring certain commitments on the part of parents/guardians. In order to enroll children in a full-day program, parents will be asked to volunteer service to the school one hour per month (the specifics of which will be determined at a later date). Understanding that parents may not be able to commit this amount of time, we are offering the option of contributing a tax-deductible donation of nine hundred dollars ($900.00) payable by August 1.
Considering the economic situation, we hope that this determination is beneficial to all.
A Calendar Change Wednesday,April 28—There will be NO school!!!
Arizona Dept of Education has informed us that due to the State of Emergency called for Yavapai County in February (on the day school was cancelled due to weather) we are not required to “make-up” that day in our calendar. Since we added a day on 2/5 unnecessarily, we are now subtracting that day. Soooo-school WILL NOT BE SESSION on Wednesday, April 28.
URGENT REQUEST FROM THE OFFICE!!!
We are beginning a unit on Van Gogh. We will paint in impasto style as did Van Gogh. (If you are interested in knowing what this is, be sure to ask your child!) We are also continuing our study of our bodies and discovering the digestive system. Two children in class are teaching us numbers in Portuguese and Greek. In preparation for spring, we will begin planting.
Supplies Needed
The school year is half over and we are asking for help again. We have truly appreciated your past generosity. If you can, please help by contributing:
• #2 yellow pencils with erasers (please, not Office Max brand!!)
• paper towels
• Post-It notes
• Toilet paper
AZ Tax Credit & Sales Tax Increase
AZ Tax Credit
We can accept partial payment during 2010, in addition to a one-time payment before December 31, 2010. Current information from the State of AZ indicates that this program will continue.
Sales Tax Increase
We encourage you to vote for Prop 100 which, if passed, would institute the sales tax increase for the benefit of education. The passage of this referendum is very important for school funding.
Don’t Miss the Fun!
Join the after-school Reading Club at the Cottonwood Public Library. The club meets on Mondays from 3:30-4:15 PM. All elementary school-age children are welcome. For more information, call Youth Services at 634-7559.
News from PreK/K
We are very excited that our butterfly larvae have arrived. We will be studying and watching the butterfly cycle. We are watching our garden grow and watering it everyday. We are enjoying the warm weather in our outside environment.
News from Lower Elementary
YAY!!! We are finished with the standardized tests!
We are continuing the study of the functions of the human body. We are also practicing the scientific method through discovery and experimenting as we prepare for our Science Fair on May 13.
The 6-9 class helped to plant flowers in a beautification project for the ARC Center.
News from Upper Elementary
Our class went to Dead Horse Ranch State Park on April 27. We went fishing. Together we caught thirty-three fish. We had a blast! On April 30 we are going to the Verde Valley Fair. We worked so hard on the AIMS test.
Abigail McCabe, grade 6
News for the PTO
The Silent Auction at the Winter Program yielded $400.00.
At a recent meeting, parents suggested the following fund-raising ideas:
- Making copies of the recorded Winter program to sell to all interested parties 1
- Selling baked goods and refreshments for the March 5-8 theatrical performances at the Clarkdale Clubhouse 2
- A clothing exchange…every parent brings clothes and pays $5.00. This is scheduled tentatively for March 5. 3
Matthew Henry Hall, Children’s Author, Visits CCE
Matthew Henry Hall, an accomplished musician, a published cartoonist, and the author of the children’s book, Phoebe and Chub, presented workshops on story writing to the children on Thursday, January 28. He sang and performed with puppets with the 3-6 and Lower Elementary classes and facilitated an interactive workshop in story writing with the Upper Elementary. It was a wonderful experience for all.
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Grandparents’ Day
It was wonderful to see so many visitors on Grandparents’ Day. We hope that all enjoyed themselves. The children were so excited that you
came!
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KUDOS to CCE
Kathy Swope, the nurse from Yavapai County Educational services who did the vision and hearing screenings for us, was very impressed with our community here at CCE. She said that she has visited many other Montessori schools in the area and found ours to be the most welcoming, cooperative, organized and peaceful. It is good to know that the values we share are appreciated by others when they visit our environment.
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Students practicing playing their recorders in their classroom.
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Lower Elementary students working with Ms MaryAnn in their classroom.
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The Upper Elementary class in a music lesson
with Ms Julie.
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Students working studiously in their Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten classroom.
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Upper Elementary students discussing Scholastic News articles with Ms Linda.
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