Friday Flyer - September 22, 2023

Friday Flyer 9/22/23 Upcoming Events:

2023 Fall Scholastic Book Fair Volunteer Sign Ups (linked here)
9/23 - All school garden work day, 9:30a-11:30a
9/24 - Breakfast/Hot Lunch ordering deadline for the week of 10/2/23
9/25-9/29 - MMCA PTA ‘Penny Wars’ Fundraiser
9/25 - Boys’ Flag FB HOME vs. Weimar, 3:30p
9/25 - MMCA Board of Directors September Meeting (agenda here)
9/27 - Girls’ BB @ Weimar, 3:45p
9/27 - Boys’ Flag FB @ Gateway, 3:30p
10/2-10/4 - Goal Setting Conferences, Minimum Days, release time @12:00 pm (sign-up instructions below)
10/2-10/4 - Scholastic Book Fair, 12:00-3:00p
10/4 - Free Dress Day
10/5-10/9 - Fall Break, No School

We Need Your Help! Garden Workday This Saturday, 9/23/23 The garden needs your help! Come join us this Saturday (9/23) from 9:30-11:30 AM and help us prepare the garden for the school year. We will be fixing fencing and amending the soil in the class boxes. Any questions can be sent to Kristin Thomas at kthomas@mmcharter.org. WatchDOGS Starts Next Week! Thank you to all of the dads who showed up to our Pizza Party kick-off event this week! WatchDOGS is starting next week. Our first WatchDOGS calendar is September - December based; we’ll also have a January - May based calendar that will be opened up at our ‘Dads with donuts’ event in January. We still have some spots available for the fall period. If you are interested in signing up, you may do so via this link here. Thank you in advance to our WatchDOGS scheduled for next week (week of 9/25/23) - see you at 8:15a in the office on your day! Mon: Danny Murphy Tues: Terrance Planty Wed.: Guramit Randhawa Thurs: Bill Makimato Fri.: Nathan Morano Scholastic Book Fair is Coming to MMCA! The Book Fair is coming to MMCA the first week of October! In order to make it as successful as possible - we need your help! Please consider signing up for 1 or more 30 minute volunteer slots. Outdoor Classroom / MMCA Garden Update The MMCA Garden needs your help! If you are looking to volunteer, but do not want to work with the dirt, I have the opportunity for you. We are looking for someone to help with our once a year fundraiser ( Big Day of Giving) and someone to help with lesson supply gathering. If you are interested, contact Kristin Thomas at kthomas@mmcharter.org. Follow along with the progress of our garden here: https://www.facebook.com/MMCAGarden Free Dress Days: Sign-up for Parent-Teacher Goal Setting Conferences October 2nd – 4th, 2023 You are invited to sign-up for your child’s conference which will be held in the afternoons Monday, October 2nd through Wednesday, October 4th You will have online access to schedule conferences starting Monday, September 18th through Thursday, September 28th. How to schedule your child(ren)’s conference: 1. Go to this link: https://www.canyoncreeksoftware.com/scheduler/ca/mariamontessori/index.cfm 2. “Maria Montessori Charter Academy” and press “Go” 3. There will be a prompt for a school password; the password is: mmca 4. The next screen will ask you to “enter the student’s ID” - we are NOT using student ID’s. Instead, press the “LOOKUP STUDENT ID” button. 5. After pressing the “look up student ID” button, you will be prompted to enter your child’s first name, last name, and birthdate and then press “LOOKUP”. 6. After your child has been identified, the program will ask you to do two things: a. Select the classroom you want to schedule the conference for (note: ALL of our classrooms are listed by color names, not teacher names); and b. If you have multiple children that you want to schedule a conference for, it will give you the opportunity to look up the next child (this will give you the opportunity to see multiple classroom conference schedules listed next to each other, making it convenient for your scheduling) 7. The program will take you through a couple of self-explanatory calendar screens, and your conference will be scheduled.