Thursday Flyer, 9-25-25

mmcharter
Sep 25
4 min read

Upcoming Events:

9/28 - Breakfast/Lunch orders due for week of 10/6/25
9/30 - Lost & Found Donation Day - please check the fence by the blue picnic tables
9/29 - Boys’ Flag Football vs. Foresthill, home game
9/30 - Girls’ Basketball vs. JAA Roseville, home game
10/1 - Boys Flag Football @ Colfax
10/2- Girls’ Basketball vs. Foresthill, home game
10/3 - Cross Country @ Granite Oaks Rocklin
10/6-8 - Goal Setting Conferences
10/6-8 - Minimum Days, Early Release at 12:00p
10/9-10/10 - No School, Fall Break
10/14 - Picture Day, Uniforms required
10/17 - Harvest Festival

Mr. Boothby’s Update

REMINDERS: We have our Annual Data Confirmation and Annual Income Surveys going on right now (more information on both below). We need to get these completed by next week - PLEASE get them submitted!

Goal Setting Conference Signups are ongoing (signup instructions below). We like to meet with all of our families early in the school year to set goals for our each of our students

Enrollment: We’re continuing to make some Waiting List calls for the few spots we have left, including:
1. A couple spots in Kindergarten (boy or girl);
2. A few spots in 2nd/3rd grade (boys); and
3. A couple spots in our Preschool Program

If you know a family who may be interested in one of these spots, please have them either contact the school or fill out the enrollment application on our website, available here.

Mr. B

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL MMCA FAMILIES Deadline: Monday, September 29th

We have TWO critical updates that require your attention and action:

1. Annual Income Survey

Your response helps us qualify for important funding and grants that directly benefit our students and school programs.

Why it matters: Income data helps determine funding through California’s Local Control Funding Formula and eligibility for programs like free/reduced lunch, before/aftercare discounts, and school clothing assistance.
Confidential: All information is kept secure and confidential.

✅ Action Required: Complete the 4-question survey by Monday, September 29th: SURVEY LINK

2. Annual Data Confirmation (Aeries Portal)

We need up-to-date contact, emergency, health, and photo permission info for each student. Please complete our annual data confirmation update:

✅ Action Required: Log in to Aeries and complete the Data Confirmation for each of your students: AERIES LINK Go to the “Student Info” tab > “Data Confirmation” and follow the steps.

Thank you for completing both items by September 29th to ensure your student’s information is accurate and to help support funding for MMCA programs.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the front office.

WANTED! After School Club Leaders for Fall Clubs session

We are looking for some parent volunteers to help lead some after school club activities for our students. Clubs typically run for 4-6 weeks after school, 1x per week, for about 1 hour. If you have a club idea and/or are interested in leading a club, or have questions about becoming a Club Leader, please reach out to Ray Baldonade at rbaldonade@mmcharter.org, who coordinates all of our after school clubs.

Garden Update

We need you! Please join us on Monday, 9/29 from 2:10-3:15 for a garden workday hosted by Orange Room and Children's House. We will be getting the garden ready for planting and The Harvest Festival. If you have any questions contact Kristin Thomas @ kthomas@mmcharter.org.

Goal-Setting Conferences

You are invited to sign-up for your child’s conference which will be held in the afternoons Monday, October 6th through Wednesday, October 8th You will have online access to schedule conferences through Thursday, October 2nd.

How to schedule your child(ren)’s conference:

1. Go to this link:

https://www.canyoncreeksoftware.com/scheduler/ca/mariamontessori/

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:

Select the classroom you want to schedule the conference for (note: ALL of our classrooms are listed by color names, not teacher names); and
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. The program will send you a confirmation email. If you do not receive an email, your conference(s) have NOT been scheduled and you will need to enter the system and try again.

If you are having issues with the software program, you have two alternatives to schedule your conference:

You may come into the office to use one of our computers.
You may call the office after 9:00am and they can assist you with scheduling.

Watch D.O.G.S. Update

We are excited to welcome our first Watch D.O.G.S. of the year next week: Kevin Romig, Ben Teague and Mizuki Kawaguchi.

Sign-Ups are now open: https://www.mmcharter.org/watch-dogs

Family Bingo Night was a HIT! Next up: The Harvest Festival on October 17th - SAVE THE DATE!

Thanks to all involved who participated in our Family Bingo Night last Saturday! The next big event coming up will be our Fall Harvest Festival - more on this soon!