Monocacy Valley Montessori Public Charter School

Parent Newsletter
MVMPCS CALENDAR:
Fri., 3/153 1/2 Hour Early DismissalMVMPCS dismissing at 12:15 p.m., Lunches served on an early schedule, No Aftercare; 5K Run/Walk Fundraiser to Benefit Lillard Family, 12:45 p.m. Tues., 3/19GC Work Session, 6:308:30 p.m. Wed., 3/20First Day of Spring! 5th Grade Family Life, 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Thurs., 3/216th Grade Family Life 9 a.m.12:00 noon., MVMPCS Drama Club (6th, 7th, 8th Grade) PresentsFlapper, 6:00 p.m., tickets on sale beginning March 5th! Friday, 3/226th Grade Family Life, 9:00 a.m.12:00 noon, Community Coffee, 9:15 a.m., MVMPCS Drama Club Presents Flapper, 6:00 p.m., Tues., 3/26Ms. Zoes Field Trip to Walters Art Museum and Mr. Martys Field Trip to MD Science Center. FRIDAY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: FRIDAY, MARCH 153 1/2 HOUR EARLY DISMISSAL; STUDENTS DISMISS AT 12:15 P.M. LUNCHES SERVED EARLY, NO AFTER CARE.

March 14, 2013

Dear Families,
As a community, we all believe that students are more than test scores. MVMPCSs mission is to empower students to become responsible, confident, caring citizens who possess strong academic skills and an enduring love of learning. Clearly, you cannot achieve these aims through standardized testing. Test scores do play an important role, however. If you would like to read more about the Maryland State Assessments, visit http:// mdk12.org/assessments. If you follow the link for Performance Level Descriptors, there is a clear description of the three levels of achievement: Advanced, Proficient, and Basic for each grade.

As a first-year School Test Coordinator, I felt everything went very well. I look forward to being a STC next yearit wont seem nearly the challenge it was this year.
I would like to extend my appreciation to all students and staff involved in MSA testing. In one way or another, the entire MVMPCS community was involved! Primary classes held recess indoors to prevent distraction to students who were testing. First and second grade students doubled up and worked with new friends while 3rd grade tested. 3rd graders tested for the first time and learned to make marks heavy and dark. The old pros, 4th -8th graders, persevered, put forth their best effort, and gave it their all for four days.

The MVMPCS Drama Program proudly presents the spring production of:

Parents, thank you for getting your students here-we had great attendance during MSAs.
Staff, thank you for testing students, proctoring sessions, providing accommodations, rearranging plans, being flexible and willing to pitch in.

Thursday March 21st at 6 p.m. Friday, March 22nd at 6 p.m.

Tickets will be sold during student arrival and dismissal.

Students, you rocked the MSAs. Thanks for doing a great job with testingnow continue becoming responsible, confident, caring citizens with strong academic skills and a love of learning!
Next up, Science MSA for 5th and 8th graders in April. More details to come.

*IN ORDER TO MINIMIZE LONG LINES FOR TICKET PURCHASES ON THE DAY OF PERFORMANCES, PLEASE PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS WELL IN ADVANCE FOR THIS PRODUCTION. THANK YOU!

Yours,
Meredith Wallace
N " ot everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein

Adults: $6.00 Children/students: $4.00

ADMISSION LOTTERY DRAWING, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 Admission lotteries for MMCI schools for the 201314 school year will be held on Tuesday March 19th, 2013. We will start at 5pm with the lottery for Monocacy Valley Montessori PCS and then continue with Carroll Creek Montessori PCS. This year, both lotteries will be open for community observation and will be held in Room 1 at CCMPCS, 7215 Corporate Court, Frederick, MD 21703.

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FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES CLASS COLLECTIONS: Support the students of MVMPCS by supporting our Class Collections and by requesting that friends & family do the same. Last year we received a check for $968.80! Please save the following items: Used Ink Cartridges (please place in plastic baggies) Old Cell Phones Box Tops for Education Weis Double Box Tops Tyson A+ Bag/Box Labels Nestle' Water Bottle Labels Campbell's Food Labels (include UPC's) Capri Sun Style Foil Beverage Containers

Parents, enter the following url address in your web browser to access the MVMPCS Conference Schedule: https://pickatime.com/client?ven=11607738
You will then need to Register to SIGN IN. Enter your email address and push "Login/Create Account". Fill in the required fields and register. SIGN INIf you've previously registered, all you need to do is enter your email and password. If you have forgotten your password, you can select the Forgot Password button and a new password will be emailed to you. SCHEDULING-You will see a list of teachers. Select the box next to the teacher name(s) that you would like to schedule a conference with. You will then see the schedule of available times for those teachers. Each colored square represents an available meeting time. The legend shows you which teacher corresponds to which color and the times increase as you go down the page. Click on a square to schedule that time.

Do you know a product that we could collect that is not on this list? Please contact Jen Shemer, MVMPCS Fundraising Chair at schoolfundraising@comcast.net.

You will optionally have the choice of setting a time when you would like an email reminder to be delivered, and you will be prompted to enter in the name of your student. Click on Create Appointment. Repeat until you have a time with each teacher youd like to visit with.
You can click on the Printable Schedule link located on the top right corner and print the resulting web page to get a hard copy of your schedule. You will also have the option to email the schedule to yourself. If you want to make changes to your schedule you can click on the Your Schedule link, OR you can login at any other time with your email and password. If you have any questions, please call Ms. Debbie at 301-6685013. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have two or more children at the school with the SAME teacher: Register / Sign In with one parents name and email address and register. Schedule the first students conference time, and log out of scheduler. Register / Sign In with the second parents name and email address and register. If you do not have a second email address you would like to use, simply use the following format: yourfirstname.yourlastname@noemail.com. POSITIVE DISCIPLINE SLIDES ON WEBSITE

MVMPCS COMMUNITY COFFEE FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 9:15 A.M. MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM Parents, join us for the March Community Coffee Meeting next Friday. We are holding these monthly gatherings on the Fridays after "working" GC Meetings so that we can discuss and address relevant or pressing issues. The main topic of the March meeting will be 'fundraising,' as the school's budget is consistently shrinking. We will strategize on effective ways to raise money (new and existing) and how you can help. I would also like to have present those who can spell out fundraising goals and explain how to effectively donate so that we are getting larger family participation and explain why family participation is so critical for our school. Also, we will address questions such as when you donate, where does that money go-MMCI? MVMPCS? Time permitting, we will open it up for community comments. I would like to thank Dunkin Donuts on rte. 40 who donated 3 dozen donuts and the 7th St. Starbucks who donated 3 boxes of fabulous coffee for the last meeting! A special thanks to parents who helped with food, set up, etc and who signed up for committees! You know who you are!!! Thanks again to all involved and hopefully we will see new faces at future meetings. Peace, Jen -Jennifer Nichols Community Outreach Committee Monocacy Valley Montessori Public Charter School http://mvmpcs.sites.fcps.org/

Last month, Ms. Cita and Ms. Venus presented a session on positive discipline. The slides were posted on the website and can be found at http://education.fcps.org/mvmpcs/mvmpcs/ positivediscipline .
Brian Blank, MVMPCS Webmaster