Dear Families,
Thank you very much for your participation in the Orchids Fundraiser that coincides with our Mother’s Day celebration. Your generosity and partnership in making this an awesome fundraiser is greatly appreciated by everyone in the school community. Orchids will be ready for your pick-up at our Mother’s Day Tea celebrations!
Students in grade 1 and up recently learned about the importance of heart health and are now inspired to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. We invite all families to join us in making this a success by donating to our Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.
Our amazing Yearbook 2018 with approx. 50+ pages, in colour and with individual photos of great moments of the school year, will soon be off to the printers so we’re taking orders now! All orders are due by May 22nd but please order early. Many thanks to our parent volunteers for all their hard work and efforts in putting this together!
Enjoy the weekend and may the fourth be with you!
The Lions Gate Montessori Staff
UPCOMING DATES AND NOTICES
Saturday, May 5 | Lions Gate Montessori Running Club @ BMO Kids Run (2.5 km) 11 AM in Stanley Park – Ceperley Park – All families are welcome to join!
Friday, May 11 | Mother’s Day Tea: North Creek AM Class 11 AM; PM Class 3 PM | Anchor Point 2:15 PM
Monday, May 14 | Upper Elementary In-house Cut-Out Animation Workshop, 12:45 PM
Wednesday, May 16 | Upper Elementary Revue Stage Beauty and the Beast
Thursday, May 17 | Geering Up UBC Engineering & Science Workshops for Grades 1 & Up
Monday, May 21 | Victoria Day NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, May 22 | Yearbook Order due
Wednesday, May 23 | Tennis Lessons Begin (Permission Slips Attached)
Wednesday, May 30 | Grade 1 & Up Jump Rope for Heart Fundraising Event
Hot Lunch (Elementary and Extended-day Children Only): There’s only one more month left for hot lunch orders so please order by the cut-off date of Thursday, May 24, 3 PM.
CASA COMMUNITY (PRE-SCHOOL & EXTENDED-DAY)
Make-Up Parent/Child Workshop | May 7th @ 4:15 pm: If you missed the earlier workshop, please bring your child to attend this make-up session. RSVP to northcreek@lionsgatemontessori
Mother’s Day Celebration | May 11: Invitations have been sent home with your children. The morning class celebration is from 11:00-11:45 am. The afternoon class celebration is from 3:00-3:45 pm. Please RSVP to northcreek@lionsgatemontessori
Please be on time for Pick-up: This is a friendly reminder that staff members are scheduled to prepare classroom and coordinate meetings outside of the students’ schedule. We understand that special and emergency circumstances may occur, but consistent tardiness is not encouraged. Dismissal for morning Preschool students is 11:45 am and 3:45 pm for afternoon Preschool students and all Extended-day students. Thank you!
Fruits and Vegetables in Lunches: We are encouraging all students to eat healthy with a balanced diet. Please include some fruits and vegetables in your child’s lunches. It’s wonderful if you are already doing so, thank you!
ANAPHYLAXIS ALERT! We have been notified that two children in our Casa community have life-threatening allergy (anaphylaxis) reactions. The triggers are dairy, eggs, tree nuts, kiwis, and hummus. The school is following the VCH guidelines, the families are working with the school, and all AM and PM Preschool and Extended Day are learning about it. Starting in September 2017, North Creek became a nut free environment. Teachers and students will be asked to wash their hands vigilantly and regularly, both at North Creek and in the Extended Day classroom at Anchor Point. Please refrain from sending these foods to school. Instead, this as an opportunity to introduce other foods for snacks and lunches to the school environment as you introduce your child to anaphylaxis awareness. If dairy, eggs, and hummus is not avoidable, please inform the teachers of the items at the door. It will help us coordinate the classroom to protect all the children. For more information, please visit Food Allergy Canada. Thank you very much for your attention and assistance.
ANCHOR POINT COMMUNITY (GRADE 1 & UP)
We look forward to seeing all our moms at our upcoming Mother’s Day Tea on Friday, the 11th at 2:15 PM! Please RSVP us with Mother’s Day Tea to confirm your attendance.
BMO Kids Run (2.5 KM) on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 11 AM, Stanley Park – Ceperley Park: We look forward to running tomorrow! There are also loads of activities for children. Students in our Running Club are already at 5KM each week! Please check out the BMO website http://bmovanmarathon.ca/runvan-kids-run/race-details for more information.
Many thanks to our Running Club coach, Alexandra Kutrovits (Neo’s mom) for organizing this!
Beauty vs Beast | Upper Elementary | May 16: The UE students will be attending this special performance that is written, directed, and performed by the students of Windsor House School. Beauty vs Beast is an original musical parody of Beauty and the Beast. Please complete the permission form and return it to school as soon as possible by Wednesday, May 9th.
Science Day | May 17: “Crazy Chemistry”, “Phenomenal Forces”, and “Charge Up” will be presented by Geering Up UBC Engineering & Science for Kids! Fees for this will be covered by the Student Enrichment Fund.
Spring Tennis Lessons | Lower & Upper Elementary: Please see permission form and return it to school as soon as possible by Friday, May 11th.
Jump Rope for Heart | May 30: Students will spend a portion of their this afternoon “jumping rope for heart”. For more information, please visit: http://support.heartandstroke.
COMMUNITY NOTICES Wondering what to do with your family this month? Check these out!
May The 4th Be With You: Family Night | May 4 | 6:30 pm – 9pm Enjoy a space-themed evening together at the first ever Family Night held in the Space Centre. It will be an after-hours far, far away celebration. Parents and kids are encouraged to come dressed as your favorite Rebel or Empire character. Vancouver’s 501st Legion Outer Rim Garrison will also be stopping by to hang out and take pictures!
New Worlds: Discovering New Solar Systems and Habitable Planets | May 6 | 2 pm The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is hosting a public talk by visiting Columbia University astronomy professor Dr. David Helfand. The talk will run from 2:00-3:00pm on Sunday, May 6th and will include an opportunity for Q&A. Doors open at 1:45pm. We will first orient ourselves by discussing our place in space and time in the Universe, and then explore how we both discover new solar systems and establish the existence of other habitable worlds.
Nature Club Family Days at the Beaty | May 6: Drop in between 10:30 am – 1:00 pm the first Sunday of the month to enjoy a special ecosystem activity for families plus all of our regular museum programming, Raising Big Blue movie, museum tours, and more!
Cheakamus Centre Open House | May 6 | 10:30 am 3:30 pm: A fun, family-friendly day of nature exploration and discovery. This is an open public event (no reservations necessary), with great picnic friendly food, salmon hatchery, farm, Coast Salish longhouse, archery, canoeing, aquatic lab, forest lab, microscope studies, Artist for Kids art activity, Wedge Rafting river floats, Mountain Skills Academy & Adventures activities. Check out our Silent Auction at the Environmental Learning Centre for some amazing items hosted by the North Vancouver Outdoor School Alumni Society and so much more.
ILLUSIVE – A Circus of Possibilities | May 10 – 13: CircusWest’s presents its newest theatrical circus creation inspired by the impossible worlds of MC Escher.This is a show where the world is turned inside out and challenges all inside to create new paths, and solve problems through circus collaboration to escape. Follow the CircusWest citizens as fight laws of physics and gravity employing geometry and logic to journey towards their destiny. Trailblazing youth circus performers will bring optical illusions to life with amazing acts of acrobatics, aerials and circus virtuosity. Dream Big with CircusWest this May