Thursday Flyer April 24, 2025
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Thursday Flyer, April 24, 2025
Upcoming Events:
4/24 - Girls Volleyball @ MMCA
4/27 - Deadline to order meals for week of 5/5
4/28 - Board of Directors Meeting (draft agenda here)
4/29 - Girls Volleyball @ EV Cain
4/30 - All School BBQ Lunch, see below for details
4/30 - Lost and Found Donation Day
5/1 - Big Day of Giving - Donate Today to Help Our Garden Grow!
5/2 - Teen CERT/Mock Disaster - Volunteers Needed!
5/5 - Snowie King, 1:45p
5/13 - Garden Mtg., 5:30p
5/21 - Open House, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
5/21 - Minimum Day
5/19 - 5/23 - Spring Book Fair
BIG NEWSLETTER THIS WEEK!
We have several big events happening soon. Please take a moment to read through this week’s newsletter. We try to keep our information items short and sweet - but there is a lot of information to share with you this week!
ALL SCHOOL BBQ - APRIL 30th
To help kick off the last few weeks of school - our breakfast/lunch provider will be providing an optional BBQ lunch for all our students and staff on April 30th! Cheeseburgers/veggie burgers/hot dogs, baby carrots, bananas, and chocolate milk, will automatically be available to all students, including those who did not order a lunch.
This is an OPTIONAL lunch for students - students may bring their own lunch if preferred. Please help your students plan accordingly.
BIG DAY OF GIVING
In 2008, when Maria Montessori Charter Academy moved to its permanent home in Rocklin, one of the first programs created was the garden and outdoor classroom. We partnered with the adjacent church to use a portion of their land for a larger garden, in exchange for access to the beautiful space we planned. Our ultimate goal was to create an outdoor classroom and discovery lab for students to learn about nature, sustainability, and life cycles. Getting kids outside and in the dirt was essential. The plan was to incorporate the garden into all aspects of the student's curriculum, from science and math, to art and literature. Using the Montessori philosophy of learning that is experiential, the students would learn respect for the environment through discovery. Today the outdoor classroom has grown to include a 1/4 acre garden with perennial vegetables, native plants, fruit trees and vines, sixteen annual planting boxes, compost bins, a storage barn, bunnies, and a garden docent program. We keep all produce and soil organic, and aim to be sustainable by making soil through composting, and practicing seed saving. All of this work was accomplished solely through volunteer labor, donations, and fundraising.
Mission
Our mission is to connect students with the natural world through our garden and outdoor classroom, to engage students with the seasonal rhythms of cultivating, growing, and harvesting organic crops, to provide students with the tools and knowledge to become skilled gardeners, self-reliant citizens and responsible stewards of the Earth, and to introduce the students to agricultural practices, plant varieties, and cuisine from different cultures around the world.
BIG DAY OF GIVING - May 1st
MMCA participates with the Sacramento region’s Big Day of Giving program each May to help fundraise for our garden. Monies earned from Big Day of Giving go directly to the garden for things like docent program funding, mulch, soil, decomposed granite, tools, irrigation, and hopefully a small greenhouse!
Big Day of Giving is coming May 1st and the pre-donation period is open! Win 4 wine tastings at the new and popular Le Cavalier and two bottles of wine for the largest donation during the pre-donation period. (https://lecel.com)
Win a chance at the coveted parking spot so you don’t have to sit in the dreaded pickup line! Raffle tickets can be earned 1 for each $100 donation and 2 tickets for each $150 donation.
Check out our awesome list of prizes available for donating!
As always, thank you for your consideration in donating. We appreciate you!
TEEN CERT/MOCK DISASTER
On Friday, May 2nd, we’re going to be doing a mock disaster event with our Teen CERT program and we need your help!
Parents - Please sign up to volunteer at our Mock Disaster as make-up artists - you won't regret it - it is so fun!
MMCA Teen CERT Mock Disaster Schedule:
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Make-up - 7:30-8:45 am in the Multi Purpose Room
YEARBOOK - EDITOR POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR 2025/26 SCHOOL YEAR
Our yearbook has been created for the past several years by parent volunteers. Our most recent parent editors are ready to hand over the torch to new parent editors as their children will have all graduated by June.
Please reach out to mmcayb@gmail.com if you have any interest in helping with the yearbook next school year. Training is available and it is a lot of fun!
WATCH D.O.G.S.
Thank you to Mr. Warchild and Mr. Morano who volunteered as our Watch D.O.G.S. on campus this week!
Sign ups to be a Watch D.O.G. for a day for the remainder of 2025 are available here.
SUMMER CAMP 2025 - SIGN UP TODAY!
We will be offering Summer Camp this year for students in current grades Pre-K thru 6th Grade. Camp hours will be 9:00am - 1:00pm. Before and after care will be available from 7:30am - 9:00am and 1:00pm - 5:30pm.
More information about the program, including online registration, is on our website: https://www.mmcharter.org/summer-camp. Spaces are limited and will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Register today!
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