DrumBeat: Drummond LSC and PTO News & Views

For Drummond’s upcoming Earth Day Celebration on April 20th- we issue the following challenge:

Can you turn trash into art?

Start collecting those old mags, toilet paper rolls, string, yarn, LPs, CDs!

This is a GREAT ACTIVITY FOR OUR UPCOMING DAY OFF- Friday April 13th

Entries should be submitted on Tuesday April 17th ONLY!  Art will be displayed for Report Card Pick-up Day and voted on by visiting parents.

Please mark your creation with your name and room number!

A small prize for all who enter!

Contact Nicole Cantello () with questions.

Drummond Montessori Parents:

Please attend our next parent ed event: “Montessori and the Human Spirit: From Birth to Young Adulthood”, by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen.

This beautiful lecture and slide show presentation will follow the child’s spiritual (not religious) development and how virtues such as compassion, peace, an affinity for the natural world …etc develop from birth to young adulthood and what it means for humanity to flourish all over the globe.

This talk will premier in the U.S. only at Drummond Montessori Magnet School before being presented in Germany and Sweden.

Please RSVP soon as limited tickets are available and we are opening up the event to other Montessori schools. Free limited childcare is available through YMCA. Light refreshments are sponsored by PTO. We will close registration when we reach our desired capacity.

Here is the link to register:

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Invitation-to-Attend–Montessori-and-the-Human-Spirit–Lecture-by-Paula-Polk-Lillard-and-Lynn-Lillard-Jessen.html?soid=1109406134091&aid=hWwbZ97teA4

Please also order books. The lecture will be followed by a book signing of any of the 4 Lillard books. Please plan on prepurchasing to avoid waiting in lines to purchase books at the event. Drummond profits from books sold before and during the event. You may pre-purchase or reserve a book when you register for our event. Books purchased through Drummond Montessori will have priority for book signing.

More info on a book club lead by our very own, Mrs. Mary Wheatley will follow soon.

We hope many of our parents and Drummond staff enjoy this very rare lecture!

Best,

Maria DeVeyra
Parent Ed Chairperson

The next LSC After School committee meeting is this Wednesday, March 21^st, 2012   @ 6:15. The meeting details are below:

Date:                   Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 
Time:                  6:15pm
Location:          Bucktown Library   – 1701 N Milwaukee Ave or Teleconference: 866-206-0240  722315#

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. III.  Administrative
   1.  Qtr III Updates
   2. Vendor revenue recommendations to LSC
   3. 2011/2012 last class and 2012/2013 start dates
   4. Account balance 
   5. 2012 Survey
4. YMCA –Programming
   1. Basketball
   2. Curriculum
   3. Additional Offerings

We are only 2 months away from the Pink Tower Event!!! May 17th We already have some great silent auction items; fine dining, golf, vacation homes, sporting events to name a few. We wanted to make it easier to hand in SA donations this year, so every Monday before school and Friday after school there will be a table where you can drop off items. Jane Nicholson will be at the table this Monday morning 3/19 before school.

We want to get everything in before spring break, which is just two weeks away! This gives us time to make sure everything is in the program book and to collect any last minute items!

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Jane () or me ()

New this year: you can enter your item online before you drop it off-
Enter Silent Auction item here

Aimee and Jane
Silent Auction co-chairs

Come join us on March 21st at 9:00 am in room 104…coffee and PTO meeting.
We need you! If you usually come…bring a friend. Mr. Neidlinger will give us a quick FYI as he always does AND the teachers need appreciation, an end of the school year picnic needs to be planned and implemented, Kiss N Go needs love, parente eds are coming up and much more!

We’ve raised over $10,000 in the family pledge drive to date. Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far. A Special thank you to the The Fisher/Rosenthal and Petersen/Stein families who have come together to offer a $5,000 family challenge for the last before Spring Break. Let’s build another block before Spring Break!!

Let’s do our part to make sure we get that full match by Spring Break! We can start by getting creative. Here are some options:

1) Birthdays coming up? Have friends and loved ones donate to the school in honor of your child’s birthday. Make a webpage to manage it here
2) Ask your employer if they match your charitable donations & make your donation go even further. Email for more information

Don’t Forget:

• Your donation is tax deductible. Everyone donating will receive a thank you letter for tax purposes.
• 100% Participation is our main goal. Therefore, $25 makes a difference, $50 makes a difference, any amount you can manage makes a world of a difference. Please donate as soon as possible to take advantage of this matching opportunity.

How To Donate?

• Donate Online :CLICK HERE

• Check, Money Order or Cash Donation may be dropped off in the main office to the attention of Megan Hinchsliff/DMM accounting chair

Thank you for your support,

Emily Greenfield and Maria Sotelo
Co-Chairs Drummond Montessori Matters

Hi, All,
See agenda for tonight’s LSC meeting linked below…

February_2012_LSC_Agenda

Students, Parents, Teachers…. please contribute to the Joy Gallery as part of Family Reading Night.  Submit your drawings, poems, photographs about what brings you joy to the PTO mailbox with your child’s name/room number on the front.

There are lots of ways to become involved in Family Reading Night!

Drummond students, please join us in the Art Room after school on Thursday, Feb. 16 and/or Tuesday, Feb. 21 to help make beautiful Mardi Gras masks to decorate the school!  Mask making will take place from 2:45-4:00 pm, materials provided.

ALSO:  We’ve received some beautiful artwork for our Joy Gallery, but we know many people would still like to contribute, so we’ve extended the deadline!

Students, teachers and family members:  drop off your pictures, photos, poems, about what brings you joy in the PTO mailbox by Tuesday, Feb. 21.  Please put your child’s/family name and room number on the front.