January Events:
Popcorn Friday – January 12th (send students to school with $1)
Howe PTA meeting – January 18th 6PM on ZOOM
No School – January 15th – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Grade Level Spelling Bee 3rd – 5th grade – January 24th
Parent Partnership Meeting – January 29th 3:00-4:00
Book Club – January 31st 8-9:30PM at the Great Commoner
PTA Meeting Agenda
This month we will be discussing High Tech – High Touch and Literacy Month. Have something to contribute? We’d love to see you on the call!
Volunteer Opportunities
We need people to sign up for the PTA Bulletin Board (Dates still needed: March, April and May) and Popcorn Fridays (Dates still needed: Feb, March, April and May). Click the links below to access the Signup Genius.
BoxTops Mailbox – we are looking for a mildly handy individual to help repurpose the BoxTop Mailbox into a school-wide mailbox for all the students. Can you (or someone you know) lend us a hand? Email the PTA at howe.schoolpta@yahoo.com
Montessori Moment
Term to ponder – practical life skills
Practical life activities are applicable for all ages. They include self-care and care of the environment. They range from brushing their hair and making toast to something as complicated as making dessert, doing yard work or even developing a resume and making a business plan in the elementary or middle school years. Practicing these skills at home will foster confident, self-sufficient adults ready to tackle life’s bigger challenges.
From Maria Montessori herself…
“Repetition is the secret to perfection, and this is why the exercises are connected with the common activities of daily life. If a child does not set a table for a group of people who are really going to eat, if he does not have real brushes for cleaning, and real carpets to sweep whenever they are used, if he does not himself have to wash and dry dishes and glasses he will never attain any real ability. And if he does not live a social life based on proper education. He will never attain that graceful naturalness which is so attractive in our children. ”
The Discovery of the Child
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