Dobson Montessori Weekly News
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May 13-17
TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY
Our parent committee is hosting Teacher Appreciation Day on Monday, May 13. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to help or made a donation. If you would like to contribute, see the contact information attached.
YEARBOOK!
Time to order your 23-24 yearbook! There is a half-page devoted to each student (including our preschool students who recently joined us) with a biography about each student. There are class pictures, photos of our school pets, teachers, and spaces for autographs from your classmates. We will have a yearbook signing party next week. You will want to look back on these memories for years to come. But you must order by Friday, May 17! We have a limited number of copies! Just $38. See attached order form.
LEMON CREAM CHEESE PUFF FASTRY
Thank you to everyone who attended our Mother’s Day Tea. We had many requests for the recipe to our Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Pastries.
Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Pastries
1 box puff pastry
16 oz cream cheese
2 eggs
Juice from 8 lemons
Zest from same lemons
1 T. vanilla
Fresh blueberries
Puff pastry comes in two sheets to a box. Cut each sheet into 12 pieces making 24 rectangles. Press each rectangle into a greased muffin tin.
Whip the cream cheese, vanilla, eggs, and half the lemon juice and zest with a stand mixer until creamy.
Divide the cream cheese mixture into the puff pastry in the muffin tins. Top with blueberries. Bake approximately 16-20 minutes at 400 degrees until golden. Let cool and frost with Lemon Frosting.
Lemon Frosting
1 pound powdered sugar
Half the lemon juice and lemon zest
Beat with mixer until smooth. If too thick, add a bit of milk or water to make a runny glaze. Drizzle over puffs and serve.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION
High School graduation will be held on Tuesday, May 21 at the Guild of the Vale auditorium. Interested attendees should arrive at 6:30 with a dish to contribute to the potluck dinner. There will be time to socialize over dinner before the ceremony honoring our graduating seniors.
SUPER SUMMER 2024
If you are entering K-6th grade, you won’t want to miss Roxeboxen in June! Design your own home and build it from a huge appliance box and then invite your friends to some over for lunch! Students will assume roles of community workers and create their own stores using rocks for money to buy real items. Based on the book, Roxeboxen, we offer this workshop only once every three years, but students remember it for a lifetime. Limited availability.
For those entering 7th-12th grade, you will be immersed in Arcane Destiny, a fantasy role playing game. With the discovery of an ancient Sorcerer's Compendium, the fabled Arcanes of the Seven Ancient Realms are revealed. But along with these powers comes great danger. What evil forces lie in your path as you forge your way through enchanted lands? Will your quest take you through the Dark woods of Elderfae? Or will you sail across the High Seas of Marmalsana? Will the Lowland Demilings help to escort you away from danger? Or will you fall to the fearsome Thyrsian warriors that guard the Fire Realm? Your fate lies in the dice, but your destiny is up to you!
Don’t miss your friends, don’t miss out on the best summer ever, and don’t miss registering for Super Summer 2024. Sign up today!
KINDERGARTEN
Our “Hawaiian Luau” students will make grass circle crowns to wear for graduation and practice our graduation presentation. We will make models of Hawaiian Tiki Totem poles and wrap up our academic assignments. We are very proud of all our kindergarten students this year. They have made so much progress academically, socially, and emotionally. Mark your calendar for the Kindergarten Graduation ceremony on the amphitheater Wednesday, May 22 at 9:15 on the amphitheater with reception in the classroom following the graduation presentation. Invite all your friends and relatives to join us.
PRIMARY
Our “Aerodynamics” students will go to Falcon Field Airport on Thursday, May 18. We will go to a local park to fly our student made foam gliders and enjoy a picnic lunch before heading to Falcon Field to see their interesting displays of historic planes. We will even get to see real planes taking off and landing. Students need to bring a sack lunch, booster seat, and water bottle for this activity. Also this week, we continue our investigation of aerodynamics as we learn about lift=airfoil, angle of attack, and wing design. Students will make their own boomerangs and try to fly a glider through a hula hoop. We will study aircraft design and investigate Newtons first and second laws of motion. We will make a stomp rocket and test it on the playground. Students keep written records of their experiments in their pilot’s log.
INTERMEDIATE
We are “Drawing Conclusions” with wrap up activities this week. We will host a step-up day for the incoming 4th grade students and share yogurt fruit pops with our guests as they prepare to join us in the 24-25 school year. Students will do their biography presentations on Thursday, May 16. On Tuesday, May 14 we will hold our sex-ed session with short, animated films explaining puberty and reproduction followed by a Q and A. We feel honest answers to questions all children have as they transition from childhood to young adults help develop healthy attitudes and avoids feelings of fear or shame. Raising children to have positive mental health is an important role of parents and educators. Now would be a good time to continue to communication about these important topics as children enter the years of puberty.
UPPER DIVISION
What a great time we had on our end of the year study trip! Everyone enjoyed visiting Wupatki, Lowell Observatory, Bearazona, the Coaster Adventure Park, and historic art district in Flagstaff. But even more educational were the opportunities to develop self-confidence by figuring tax and tip in restaurants, managing living arrangements with peers, budgeting their own money, and solving problems on their own. This week, they will add photos of the trip and recent play to their scrapbooks and finalize academics.
HIGH SCHOOL
Students are excited to depart on Tuesday for their 4 day, end of the year study trip! Our film makers are going to Hollywood where we will walk the walk of fame and visit Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. We will spend a day at Universal Studios where we will tour the back lot and ride movie themed attractions. Next, there is a day at Santa Monica beach and rides on the pier. We will conclude our trip with a visit to the Peterson Auto Museum where there is a display of cars featured in famous movies. We are proud of these students for raising the funds and planning this trip.