Montessori Update 3.29.2020

Good Afternoon Montessori Families,

The Montessori Team has been in touch with one another and everyone has had a restful week and we are all looking forward to seeing you tomorrow and in the coming days. Each classroom teacher will be sending you the link for their classrooms ZOOM meetings. While we sent you the link to create your own ZOOM account, please know that it is not necessary to have your own account in order to join a meeting, you need only click on the link in the invitation and you will be taken to the meeting.

Tomorrow you will all be given an invitation to join a Google Drive. This Drive will be where a collection of videos that the staff has made will live. We encourage you to share these videos with your child as the entire Montessori Staff has been working hard on creating these for them. They will contain lessons, stories, songs, handiwork and a variety of subjects of interest to the children. Please know we will continue to make more and upload them to this drive. We are available to help with tech support if you are not familiar with Google. Please just let us know.

In addition, our VIMSIA website (vimsia.org) will have a section entitled Distance Learning where all these resources will live for convenient access. This including the Distance Learning Handbook, the Google Drive link and a link for our amazing online library that we have access to, thanks to Kathy Schlesinger.  

We will be canceling our two conference days, Friday, April 3rd and Monday, April 13th. These days will become normal Distance Learning school days. Please know you will have access to your child's teacher as needed.

Friday, April 10th will be a day off from school for all, as originally planned on our school calendar.

While we are very excited to launch our new Distant Learning Program, we also know that we will be making adjustments as we go along. We welcome constructive input and suggestions for solutions to problems. Please know that we are all going to do the very best we can, as we know you all are too. Our collective vision is for the continued emotional well being and academic success of our Montessori children. In partnership with one another, we know this is possible. We are here for you, please reach out to either myself or your child's classroom teacher as you may need to.

 I hope you will be able to join in the virtual Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday morning at 8:30. Michael will be sending out an email later today with the link for that meeting. This will be an opportunity for all Montessori Parents to check in, ask questions and reconnect.  It will be so good to see your faces!

Warmly, 

Heather