Volunteer Opportunities

Color Run is happening May 8th – We need parent volunteers – Sign up Here

Popcorn Friday

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

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Montessori Moment

Montessori term to ponder – Plans of Development

Maria Montessori’s theories of developmental psychology includes her observation of the Planes of Development. These stages offer insight into the developmental milestones of any child. The holistic framework of development includes:

• The First Plane: Birth to Age 6 (Early Childhood/Infancy) “The Absorbent Mind”
• The Second Plane: Ages 6–12 (Childhood) “Conscious Imagination”
• The Third Plane: Ages 12–18 (Adolescence) “New Identity”
• The Fourth Plane: Ages 18–24 (Maturity) “Maturity”

Learn more from this link published by another Michigan public Montessori school:
https://www.leelanaumontessori.org/child-development-planes.html#:~:text=%E2%80%8BMontessori%20asserted%20that%20each,as%20triangles%20along%20a%20continuum.

Graphic source and further exploration: https://www.montessoriofyorbalinda.com/the-planes-of-development

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PTA 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: March, April and May). Click the links below to access the Signup Genius.

PTA Bulletin Board

Popcorn Friday

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

Montessori term to ponder – The Intelligence of Love

Intelligence of love could be described as the inner guide that leads children to observe what is about them. “It is indeed a form of love that gives them the faculty of observing in such an intense and meticulous manner the things in their environment that we, grown cold, pass by unseeing.” In Maria Montessori’s book The Secrets of Childhood she argues a child has this form of love in them and it ought not be hindered by the adult. Their joy, in fact, ought to bring us life. Reminding us with their curious intelligence of love to stand in wonder and joy of the curious world around us. How a leaf floats from a tree, how a cap fits perfectly on a bottle, a set of stairs to be explored and the morning sun that wakes a child which in turn wakes an adult in an attempt to offer a touch of love. All these things are keenly observed by a child and that joy of learning is worth amplifying and exploring together.

Of all things love is the most potent.

Dr. Maria Montessori

Candy Cane Grams are being sent home in students’ folder December 11th. Candy Cane Grams are hand decorated cards taped with a candy cane and delivered to the classrooms before break. This is a fun way for students to pass special notes to their friends for the holidays. Buy 1 or buy 1 for the whole class! The choice is yours. 

Talk with your child to decide how many cards they’d like to decorate this year. Fill out the form and turn it back in with money and your child will receive grams to be decorated at home. (The sooner they turn in the forms, the sooner they receive the grams to be decorated!)

Decorated grams need to be returned by Dec 18th. 

Have fun! 

Help Wanted!

Hey there! Are you good with your hands or pretty crafty? We need someone to help us repurpose our BoxTops mailbox. BoxTops no longer requires us to turn in physical tabs, so the mailbox has been sitting empty for a few years. We’d like to give it a second life by turning it into a school-wide mailbox for all the students.

Creative freedom is welcome – do it yourself, or involve a student (or group), ask your handy in-law to pitch in, the options are endless! Are you up for the task?

Email the PTA at howe.schoolpta@yahoo.com