Join Stanford Parents and Teachers building an Outdoor Classroom Garden Space!
When: Saturday, Oct. 29th
Time: 9am – 3pm. starbucks is providing coffee for the morning helpers! Though you may come and go as you are available, any and all help is appreciated.
What to bring: work gloves, apron, water bottles, any of the following that you have: hammer, tape measure, garden/cement rake, shovels, cordless drill, or other small gardening tools
Further details: This space is the result of many teachers desire to have an easy to maintain, educational, student-centered garden space. Home Depot has partnered with us and has provided not only the $2,600 grant to fund construction but also a volunteer crew of 20-30 people to come out and function as team leaders on construction day! Garden features include: 18 raised beds to host a variety of plant life, 4 dwarf fruit bearing trees, 6 small benches, a work table for teachers and students to utilize, a double compost bin, a rock garden to host desert climate plants for regional study, and a central shallow water plant feature. Highlights of the garden also include wheelchair accessibility, markers for plant life which provide quick and easy teaching notes for our teachers, plant life which provide a broad range of skill level activities for students, and the use of entirely organic gardening methods. We are very excited about this, our first project with our Home Depot partners, and hope that many of you will come out to participate in this wonderful new beginning!
Hello Stanford Families and Friends! We hope you have enjoyed your Fall break!
This holiday season would you like to spend less time in the kitchen and more time creating memories with your families? If so, we have the solution for you! We are NOW planning this year’s Stanford Montessori PTO Holiday Bake sale! Below is a list of delectable baked goods that will be available for you to order:
· Pumpkin Pie
· Apple Pie
· Chess Pie
· Chocolate Pie
· Banana Bread
· Pumpkin Bread
· Coffee Cake
· Chocolate Chip cookies (2 doz/order)
· Snickerdoodles (2 doz/order)
Next week you will find an order form in your child’s backpack. Please complete the order form and include it along with your payment (cash or check) in the envelope provided. Simply return the envelope to us in your child’s backpack to place your order.
Not only will you be making life easier for yourself, but you will also be helping support our awesome school! Wow…that’s fantastic!
You are welcome to contact Sarah Sanders, at (615)430-8613 or sjanesanders@comcast.net with any questions.
Stanford PTO is organizing a Family Fitness program. Would you or someone you know be willing to teach a class? Yoga, zumba, aerobics, kick boxing, etc. Something you would like to see offered? Suggest a name that the committee chooses and win some Stanford swag! Email us atstanfordmontessoripto@yahoo.com!
Hear ye, hear ye!!Dear Stanford Families and Friends!
The BIG DAY is almost here!! Come one and all to our Fall Festival this Saturday (October 8th). Just for you, we ordered up a beautiful fall day and it looks like our order will be delivered as requested. It will be fun for the whole family and you will not want to miss it!!
Please be aware of parking on Saturday as the Methodist church across the street has notified us that a church member has passed away and the services will be this Saturday from 10-1. Please respect the solemnity of this occurrence and continue to be good neighbors.
ONLY 3 more days until Stanford Montessori Design Center hosts it’s first FALL FESTIVAL!!! We will have:
inflatables
dunking machine
games
food
Italian Ice
Popcorn
Qdoba will be there with free chips and salsa
cake walk
silent auction
tailgate headquarters for watching the game
over 20 vendors and more!!!
Please stop by anytime this Saturday, Oct 8th from 10a-3p!! We look forward to seeing our community there!
There are still many volunteer opportunities to be had. If you are going to be at the school for the day, contact your Classroom Parent Contact and see how you can get involved!
We are looking for a volunteer for the Monday, October 3rd PTO meeting. The ideal volunteer is available from 6p-7:20p. We are offering double Volunteer hours for those that volunteer and actually show up. If you can help please contact: Renee “Daylin’s Mom” Russell @ 615-668-3638.
There are two BIG things I would like to share with you.
1. All the voting efforts paid off, because Stanford won $5000 from Kleenex for field trips! How awesome is that? Our children are so fortunate to go to a school that has so many adults in their lives that work to make things happen. Thank you to all of you who voted on the Facebook page and asked their friends and family to vote as well. It really did pay off in a BIG way!
2. Do you know what October 8th is? The First Annual Stanford Fall Festival–woo hoo! Because we want our parents to have the first advantages, I have attached the pre-sale flyer for advanced purchases. There are BIG discounts inpurchasing your tickets BEFORE the event, so take a look at the attachment and place your orders. Also, if anyone has any items (or knows someone) that would donate items to the silent auction please let us know. And, did you know all of this counts towards your 35 volunteer hours–easy, easy!?
Thank you for all you do to make Stanford such a FANTASTIC school!
We want to spruce up the grounds in preparation for the upcoming Fall Festival. We will have tons of families on campus for that event and we want everything to be in tip-top shape.
Moms & Dads, this is a fun way to earn your volunteer hours + get to know some other parents as you work along side of them.
The more help we have, the quicker the job gets done!
Contact April Mills (mills6181@bellsouth.net) with questions or RSVP here to attend.
