Since we fill up our full-day and morning sessions first., we urge families to submit their application for 2012-13 soon, especially if interested in a program that offers a full-day or morning session.  These include our full-day Kindergarten (age 5-6) and full-day Pre-Primary plus Enrichment  (age 3-4) sessions, and our morning Pre-Primary (age 3-4) and morning Stepping Stones (age 2.5-3) sessions.

We’ve already offered 2012-13 placement to families with children currently at The Montessori House, and these families have until January 10, 2012 to provide us a reservation tuition deposit for their preferred 2012-13 program. 

Shortly after January 10, 2012 we’ll start to offer placement to new applicants, more or less in the order paid applications were received at the school.   As with our current families, we ask new applicants to confirm their preferred session and provide us a reservation tution deposit to hold a 2012-13 place for their child. 

At some point in the admissions process, our Director likes to become personally acquainted with new applicants.  Sometimes these meetings take place before an enrollment offer is made, and sometimes after.  We start to schedule these meetings in Janaury. 

We continue to offer placement in a session until that session is filled, at which point we’ll start a session wait list.  A family may choose to enroll in an alternate session, but still join the wait list for their preferred session.  

Again, we urge families interested in 2012-13 to submit an application soon, as we expect some sessions will fill up very quickly. 

For more information please contact us at admissions@themontessorihouse.com or call 201-816-8343.

Please bring in your bottle caps (the plastic screw caps from drink bottles are great) and deposit them in the box Diana has left by the front door. 

You can see examples here.  Thanks in advance to you and to Diana for putting it all together!

First, the parking lot is closed on the Knickerbocker Rd. side, as is the regular entrance to The Montessori House and the playground. These are closed pending tree trimming and clean-up, which we hope to complete this week. In the meantime, please enter the school through the Church/Tween Tot door off the east side of the parking lot closest to Riveredge. Note, Parent Visitation continues as scheduled, with this week’s Monday and Tuesday visits rescheduled for next week (Monday and Tuesday with the same appointment times).

Finally, we have moved the deadlines for tuition payment, school picture orders, and Scholastic book orders, all to Friday, November 4th.

Here’s what Polly provided the week of October 17th.  

• Monday: water crackers and provolone cheese, a bag of apples and yogurt, water crackers
• Tuesday: pear raisin bread pudding, raisins in mini box
• Wednesday: sweet potato puree with carrot and celery sticks
• Thursday: veggie sushi platter (from Mr. WOK)
• Friday: banana bread, banana

This week Clara brought us: bananas, popcorn chips, vegi platter, hummus, and organic applesauce.  And the Nutrition Committee also helped the children prepare pumpkin smoothies. 

We wonder what Benita will bring us next week!

If you’d like to sign-up for “snack duty”, join the Nutrition Committee via the Parents section of the website.

And thanks to all the Montessori House families who brought wonderful things to eat and drink, who helped set up the festival, supervise the kids’ activities, and helped clean-up at the end.

The Farmer’s Market raised enough money to donate through Heifer International the following animals: 

chickens, ducks and honeybees!

Thanks!

If your child is older, call us joining the wait list (your application will carry over for 2012-13. 

We continue to offer school tours until students arrive in September.  If you’d like to see the school “in action” (with students and teachers in the classroom), tours of the school will start again in October.  You may call for an appointment and also to join our mailing list so that we can keep you informed about our enrollment calendar for 2012-13.

Some of the activities included:

• Chase by a grizzly bear.
• Painting a house.
• Trading on the Silk Road.
• Riding a Nile crocodile.
• Collecting nuts in the rain forest.

Luckily we had beautiful weather, so we could enjoy The Beach every day!

 Thanks to Ms. Hillarie, Ms. Deepthi, Ms. Christine and Ms. Maria, as well as to all our volunteers — Sydney, Morgan, Elle, Maxine, Maxie, Liel, Hailey, Isabelle, Madeline, Anne Maire, Olivia, and Isabella.

For more information about Miriam Baker and her practice in NYC and Englewood, NJ, or to contact her, you may visit the website of her professional practice: http://mbaker-ngrigorian.com/about/about.htm.

The office will be closed, all classes and tours are canceled.  We expect to return to our normal schedule and hours tomorrow.

Wow!  That ice is really something!