Weekly Newsletter 

The Week of November 27th

Reading Logs
December reading logs will go home this week. November reading logs are due Friday.Please make sure your student is reading and recording nightly!

Classroom Snack-In the New Year

We hope you have found the new system for classroom snack to be helpful for you and your family by cutting down time spent rushing around for snack for the class on your assigned week, and also hoping you have found it to be more economical. We have seen an enormous amount of positive growth that this seemingly small change made. We are seeing that students are enthusiastic to eat their fruit and vegetable snacks without hesitation and we have seen their confidence soar because of their additional opportunities in practical life activities such as preparing the food, and also washing their dishes when they are through.

All of that being said, when we began this journey at the beginning of the school year, we were not certain what type of budget we needed to set, so we set a conservative budget of $20 per student for the year. We are seeing now that we need to request an additional $20 per student to make it through the school year. That ends up working out to $1.11 per student for 36 weeks of school, at $40 per student per year. We prefer Kroger gift cards as they tend to have the most economical organic options. If Publix is your store, of course we will accept those as well. We found that grocery store gift cards are the easiest for us to deal with, rather than worrying about cash.

Please send in gift cards by January 15. We thank you for your support in this endeavour. We also hope that you are seeing and feeling the benefits as much as we are as a community.

We appreciate everything you all do for our community!

Campaign for Healthy Kids

The Campaign for Healthy Kids offers free in-person enrollment assistance for children's health insurance programs: Medicaid, Medicaid for children with special needs, PeachCare for Kids, and more. There are several enrollment events coming up.There are also informational folders in the school front lobby.

https://coastalcampaign.org/

PTA Spirit Night

Please join us at Chuck E Cheese from 3-9pm on November 29th for Charles Ellis Spirit Night! 15% of all proceeds will go to the Ellis PTA.

MESS Holiday Party

We’d like to encourage you to attend the Annual MESS (Montessori Education Society of Savannah), Holiday Party on Friday, 12/1/17. Please see the invite below.

Local Farm Bag

Charles Ellis families receive a 10% discount on the local farm bag.The farm bag contains fresh local fruits and vegetables and can be delivered to our school weekly. Please follow the link below for more information.

https://www.localfarmbag.com/

Box Tops

Charles Ellis is collecting box tops. Please cut out and send in box tops with your students!

Read-A-Thon November 1-27
The Charles Ellis Read-a-thon is going on right now! ALL profits will go towards purchasing new Montessori materials for circulation in classrooms. 

Yankee Candle Fundraiser
Yankee candle online orders are open through January 15th! Enter the group number 999971165 to make sure our school gets 40% of sales!
yankeecandlefundraising.com

The Learning Community Wish List (bold items are more pressing)

Guinea Pig Bedding

UPCOMING EVENTS
November 28-Honoring the Military Breakfast-Media Center 8:30am
Nov. 29-Chuck E Cheese Spirit Night
December 1-MESS Holiday Party
December 4-Field Trip
December 4-8 - Holiday Book Fair
December 7- Festival of Lights
December 8- Field Trip
December 14- Dec. B-day Celebration
December 18-January 2-Winter Break