Admin Corner May 2, 2023 – Country Montessori School

Country Montessori School

Admin Corner

May 2, 2023

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning. ”

Dr. Maria Montessori

Upcoming Dates/Events:

May 10 – Yearbook Orders Due
May 10 – Mother’s Night – Eagles
May 11 – Mother’s Night – Owls
May 16 – Grandparents Day
May 20 – CMS Annual Auction
Fall Calendar Now Available – See end of Admin Corner

Spring Fling-Video

Thank you all for attending our Spring Fling, it was an amazing show! Our students showed their talent and hardwork while having a fun time. It was wonderful for our CMS community to be gathered together! Our professional photographer made a video of the performance. A USB drive with the video and a link will be available soon, keep your eye out for an email.

CMS Annual Auction

This year’s Annual Auction & Dinner will be held at The Heights Golf Club in Rancho Bernardo, May 20th from 4-7pm. We hope that you will be able to come join us for Hors d’oeuvres, Dinner, Bar, 50/50 Opportunity Drawing, Silent & Live Auction items, and our Wine Wall. The event will be for the whole family!

Tickets to the Event

Tickets are now available!

Please visit Silent Auction Pro to buy your auction tickets & opportunity drawing tickets! Silent Auction Pro is the website we will be utilizing for all our Auction activities! If you are prompted for a code, please use: 438

Adult/Child – Early Bird Tickets – $35/$15 – until 5/8

Adult/Child – Regular Tickets – $45/$25 – 5/7- 5/19

**Due to Offsite Location, we are not offering Day-of-Event tickets.

Opportunity Drawing!

We are also excited for our very popular Opportunity Drawing! One person will win 50% of the money raised from the opportunity tickets! You can purchase your opportunity drawing tickets at Silent Auction Pro when you purchase your Event tickets! They will also be available at school.

1 ticket – $10

3 tickets – $25

6 tickets – $40

Classroom Baskets

Each year, The Classroom Baskets campaign promotes a fun and easy way for families to get involved by helping support CMS. We are asking families to contribute to their child’s classroom basket. All donations will be used to create themed baskets which will be auctioned at our Auction event. Each classroom has a different theme for their basket:

Dragonflies – Food & Beverages
Ladybugs – Crafts & Hobbies
Bumblebees – Beach Day
Eagles – Family Night
Owls – Adventure & Sports

Our goal is to collect enough donations to create 1-3 classroom baskets for each of the themes. Here are some Donation Ideas for each classroom. All donations for the classroom basket can be dropped off in the office or with your classroom teacher. Please put your name on the item donation so we can keep track of all our wonderful family donors.

Community Outreach

If you are out in the community and have an opportunity to ask for an auction donation, please do! Many local businesses support local fundraisers for non-profit organizations such as CMS! If you need a donation request letter, please let susank@countrymontessori.org

Please turn in all donations by May 10th

Parent Alert Text Messages

CMS uses a parent alert text message system when we need to alert our community of situations that may arise. It will show up as Parent_Alert and in the future we will have our school name on the message.

Grandparent’s Day

This is a special time for grandparents to visit their grandchildren’s classrooms and see what they are working on. It will be on May 16 from 3:00-4:00.

Re-Enrollment

CMS Re-Enrollment and open enrollment is in full swing. Families who are returning to the fall please complete your re-enrollment packet at your earliest convenience. If your family does not intend to return in the Fall please notify Jose joseb@countrymontessori.org

CMS Summer Camp

All Early Childhood Camps are full with a waiting list. Elementary Camps are filling fast, if you are interested in registering for any summer camp weeks please fill out our camp registration form.

Summer camps will start on Tuesday June 20th and run through Friday August 4th.

CMS Yearbooks

Order your yearbook today! Two personal pages are included with the purchase of your yearbook. These pages will only be in your yearbook – making it individualized for your child(ren). Go to TreeRing Enter the school’s passcode: 1012868284351061. Follow the instructions to create an account. Deadline to order is Wednesday, May 10th.

More information here.

Monthly Attendance and Timely Attendance Emails

Regular and timely attendance is valued and expected at Country Montessori School. At the end of the month emails will be sent if your student/s have had multiple absences and tardies. We understand that students will miss or be late to school due to Illnesses or appointments throughout the school year and that is taken into account. Please notify the office if your student will be late or absent.

Illnesses

Please do not send your student to school with any symptoms or if they are not feeling well and to be able to return to school their symptoms need to be improving. If your student has a fever, is vomiting, has diarrhea or is on an antibiotic they may not return to school for 24 hours and be symptom free. We appreciate your support and understanding.

All illnesses need to be reported to Susank@countrymontessori.org. Negative Covid tests are still required for symptoms; however please have your child stay at home for the following:

Runny noses
Wet cough
Vomiting-Students need to be vomit free for 24 hours (without medication)
Fever-Students need to be fever free for 24 hours (without medication)
Tired/Not feeling 100%-We want our students to feel well while at school
Diarrhea-Students need to be diarrhea free for 24 hours (without medication)

Communication Directory

Morning Parking Lot Procedures

Curbside – 1st level-5th level students-If your student is late and it is before 8:40, you need to drive through the parking lot. Your student will be marked tardy
Two Lanes in Parking Lot- Ladybug,Bumblebee and Dragonfly students-Please stop at the crosswalk and wait to be moved forward
Please do not get out of your car, your teacher will take your student from or to the car
Please take a right hand turn only out of parking lot

***If you have students in elementary and early childhood please use the curb drop off unless it is full please use lane 2 or 3.

Half Day Dismissals-12:30

Please pull up in front of the office. Walk to the front office gate to pick up your student.

Early Childhood 2:30-2:45 Dismissals

Please use 2 lanes and stop at the crosswalk and wait to be moved forward and your student will be brought out to you
If the parking lot is full please use the curb and your student will be taken to you

**If you have children in both EC and Elementary your EC student will be dismissed at the 3:00 dismissal.

Elementary 3:00-3:15 Dismissals

4th and 5th level students will be dismissed from the curb
1st-3rd level students will be dismissed in the parking lot using 2 lanes
Please wait at the crosswalk until you are moved forward

Attendance and Tardiness

Country Montessori puts an emphasis on the importance of students being to school on time not only for themselves but for their classmates and classroom. All students should be in class by 8:30.

There is a grace period until 8:40 for our Early Childhood students to accommodate car seats. This does not apply to elementary students. Daily attendance is taken each morning and recorded. Absences and tardies will be reflected on the students report card and we discourage excessive tardiness and absences.

Late Arrival Procedures

If your student is late to school you need to park and accompany them and wait outside the office in the enclosed area. Administration will take all tardy students to class at 9:00 AM. Please make every effort to have your student to school on time. This applies to both Early Childhood and elementary students.

Child Care

Morning child care is offered every morning at 7:30 and after school child care is from 2:45-6:00 PM. If you are interested in our unlimited child care please contact Jose at Joseb@countrymontessori.org. Please wait outside the front gate with your child when dropping off for child care and a teacher will greet you at the gate. Follow the same procedure when picking up your child from afternoon child care.

Parking

For visitor parking please use the spots in front of the school. The parking spots located by the dumpster are employee parking and certain staff arrive at different times of the day.

Masking

Masking is optional at this time.

COVID-19 Vaccination Record-Please Provide a Copy

If your child is vaccinated please provide a copy of their COVID-19 vaccination card.

Please send your COVID-19 vaccination card to Jose Bolanos joseb@countrymontessori.org so that this information can be documented with the school.

Head Injury Policy

In the event of an injury above the neck we will call the student’s parents to inform them of the incident and require them to come to the school and check them out and make the decision to take their student home or leave them at school. The student is monitored until the parent comes to school. If the staff member notices any changes to the student’s condition, 911 will be called and the parent is immediately called to let them know.

2023-2024 School Calendar

Updated Decision Tree Guidance – Testing

Cheers,

The CMS Family