Year: 2008
| General, Lower El, News, Primary, Uncategorized, Upper El
Pizza Fridays
by Maple Tree
Fridays will be Pizza Day at Maple Tree Montessori. The Upper Elementary will organize and run a year long fundraiser for their classroom by ordering, selling and distributing pizza by the slice. We don’t have all the details yet because this is a class project and will be set up by the class. The hot lunch program from Savor the Season will be available on Mondays and Wednesdays. The pizza will be served on Fridays. The Upper Elementary class will determine how the raised money is to be spent, we will keep you posted!
| General, Lower El, News, Primary
Suzuki Violin
by Maple Tree
We are happy that many of our parents have expressed a strong interest in establishing a Suzuki Violin program at our Maple Tree Montessori. If you have not responded and are interested we encourage you to respond as soon as possible. We will be tallying up the expected price and class size for the group lessons, time needed for individual lessons and the number of instruments that need to be purchased for students. Our plan is to make equipment available for lease to students and for this we need to have a pretty close count of the number of interested ... Read more
| General, Lower El, News, Primary
Hot Lunches for 2008
by Maple Tree
We are pleased to announce that we will be offering Hot Lunch as an option on Mondays and Wednesdays this school year. The company we have chosen to provide our lunch service is “Savor The Season”. We are very excited about the choices that they are offering us and the fact they they provide natural and organic foods whenever possible,with a strong emphasis on locally grown foods. We have the menu for September and they will be emailed to all parents who have submitted their email address. (you can do so by sending it to mapletree@cac.net) The menus will also ... Read more
| Events, Lower El, News, Upper El
Upper Elementary Teacher Announced, Meeting on July 14th
by Maple Tree
We have decided on an Upper Elementary teacher for our new classroom. Debra Babiarz has been working as an assistant in the Lower Elementary and much to our delight, has decided to take the Upper Elementary training this summer. Debra is an experienced state certified Elementary teacher. She is well known to the children and has years of experience teaching this age group. Debra is currently taking the classes at Michigan Montessori Teacher Education Center and will be doing a mentored internship this year at our school. In addition to the training program supervising teachers, Melissa Boffi will be mentoring ... Read more
Children’s Habitat Project Progress
by Maple Tree
We want to thank all of the parents who came and worked with us on Saturday, June 21st, our Habitat looks great!! We installed the stump circle, the bird feeding area, developed trails, constructed and planted raised beds and even built a bridge!! Thanks to all of your hard work, our backyard is a wonderful place for children to play, learn, reflect and connect to the natural world. Thanks again to the Pearsall, Deuter, Adams, Minor, Cherry and Armstrong families for all their hard work!! Also thanks to the Deuter, Rue and Myers families we now have bracelets for sale ... Read more
| Lower El, News, Primary, Upper El
Suzuki Violin Program and Music at Maple Tree Montessori
by Maple Tree
After years of searching, we have found a very talented and experienced teacher, Jessica Enderle, to run a Suzuki violin program at our school. We would like to offer individual and group lessons to all interested children. Suzuki music programs are an amazing way to learn music. This will enhance our developing music program. We have already hired a Montessori music teacher for fall that is also very talented and experienced. Julie Sporer, will be teaching music to the Elementary and Full day students. The Suzuki program will be optional and the teacher will set the fees involved. We will ... Read more
| Events, General, Lower El, News, Primary, Upper El
Maple Tree Montessori’s First Post
by Maple Tree
Hello, and welcome to our blog. Through this, we hope to to provide timely, relevant and interesting information to the students and parents of Maple Tree Montessori Academy. While most of the information here will be directly related to news and upcoming events at our school, we also hope to provide information that will be useful to all parents in Brighton, Livingston County and beyond. We also welcome comments, links, and feedback through this blog and would also be happy post information on upcoming events that cater to children, parents, and families in the Brighton area. Thank you for stopping ... Read more