Fernwood Family Newsletter #30, 4/2/24 

~Friday, April 5th, 2024, 5:30-7:30pm, 6th/7th/8th Grade Dance, Fernwood Gymnasium

~Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 5:00pm, Arts Fest Meeting, Anodyne Coffee Roasters in Bayview

~Tuesday, April 9th, 2024, 6:30pm, Fernwood Fund Meeting, Fernwood Library and Virtual-email benjaminmstocks@gmail.com for meeting link

~Thursday, April 11th, 2024, 6:30pm, Music Parents Meeting, Virtual https://meet.google.com/fpf-rvca-uuk

~Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 6:00pm, PTO Meeting, Fernwood Library and Virtual http://meet.google.com/isc-jfjq-zow

~Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, 5:30pm, Race Talk with Nikki Janzen, Fernwood Library

~Friday, April 26th, 2024, 8:45-10:00am, Special Friends Day, Fernwood Montessori Classrooms

~Monday, April 29th, 2024, 5:30pm, SEC Meeting, Virtual https://meet.google.com/hnp-uhmu-wpr

~Sunday, May 5th, 2024, 10am-4pm, Fernwood Arts Fest, Fernwood Montessori School

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Link to Fernwood Family-School Manual 2023-2024: Family-School Manual 2023 2024 SY.docx

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Referendum Voting is TODAY!!!! 

Election day is Tuesday, April 2nd.  MPS has added a referendum to the ballot.  Please see the attached information to learn more about how this impacts our school and community.  Resources on polling locations, hours, and rides to the polls are also listed below.

Referendum Fact Sheet-English 

Referendum Fact Sheet-Spanish 

Fernwood Budget Implication Chart

Rides to the Polls

https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/

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Save the Date: FERNWOOD ARTS FEST!

Please mark your calendars for the Fernwood Arts Fest on May 5th from 10am to 4pm!  This fun event raises money for the Fernwood PTO and is a great celebration of the Arts and our community!  Please bring cash for the door and for shopping (some vendors will take cards).

This event is only possible if we have lots of volunteers to support it!  Please consider taking a volunteer shift using the Sign Up Genius below.

Arts Fest Volunteer

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Spring Drama Classes!

Free theater classes with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater are being offered at Fernwood this Spring.  Classes are on Saturdays and include free lunch.  Please see the flyer for details and registration.

SYP Spring 24 (1).pdf

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Summer Camp Opportunities for MPS 4th-8th Graders!

Free overnight camps are available to MPS students. Spots are limited.  There is a virtual information session tonight.  See below for details.

https://milwaukeerecreation.net/rec/Programs/Overnight-Camp.htm

MPS Camp Interest Form

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Special Friends’ Day

April 26th is Special Friends’ Day at Fernwood.  This is a wonderful opportunity for students to invite guests (Grandma! Grandpa! Auntie! Your Mailman!) to visit their classrooms during one of two morning sessions, 8:45-9:15am or 9:30-10:00am.  Students will be able to share work that they are proud of and demonstrate some of their lessons.

We ask that all guests enter through the glass doors on Falling Heath Place.  Please send in an RSVP form to your student’s teacher by April 22th if your student has a guest that will be attending.  RSVP forms will be sent home next week and the form is also linked below.

Special Friends’ Day 2024.docx

We will be looking for volunteers to help make this fun day a success.   Please consider coming in to help!

Volunteer Sign Up-Special Friends’

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Race Talk 

Please register for Session 2 of a Conversation about Race with Coach Nikki Janzen on April 24th at 5:30pm in the Fernwood Library.

Conversations About Race Sign Up

Session Two: Exploring Stages of Racial Identity and Loving Ways to Interrupt bias.

This one and a half hour session will look at the research on how people move through different stages of racial identity development. We will look at skills to call people into the work versus calling people out to avoid blame and shame.

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Yearbooks for Sale!

Fernwood 23/24 yearbooks are for sale!  Orders will be taken until April 14th.  Go to ybpay.com and use the code 14852524 to locate our school.  Yearbooks  “vibrantly capture your memories throughout the school year” and are available for $12 each.  Amazing!  Please note that we will not be ordering additional or extra yearbooks after the 14th.  Ordering online is your only opportunity to purchase one.  Thank you to Parent Amanda Lavoe for being our yearbook superstar volunteer!

ybpay.com

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Camp Fernwood Summer Enrollment Information

SUMMER CAMP ENROLLMENT INFORMATION:

• Please pick up a Summer Camp Interest Form from the main office starting March 18th, 2024.
• Interest forms should be returned to the main office when completed.
• Please complete 1 form per family.
• Forms are due anytime before April 8th. No late forms accepted.
• Please keep in mind that these are not enrollment forms and do not secure a spot in Camp Fernwood. This is simply to gauge interest and to make sure we have enough staffing.

Summer Camp at Fernwood Montessori Details:

• $150 per week- this includes full time staff, field trips, Spanish club, TCM weekly book program, and a theater club. Spanish and Theater club will be separate sign ups.
• 3 days attendance per week minimum required.
• Attendees will be picked by random lottery- date to be determined, but by May 1st. This will be done on a live Zoom call, and anyone can attend.
• Cannot be absent more than 2 consecutive weeks.
• Interest forms can be picked up in the main office.
• Camp will run from June 17th through August 16th.

Summer Camp Activities and Field Trips:

• Field Trips will potentially include: Incrediroll- skating rink, Inside Out 2 at Marcus Oak Creek Theater, Tour of Wisconsin’s Capitol-Madison WI, Miller Park Tour, UWM Planetarium, Kids in Motion, Finding Nemo Jr. Play with Forte Theater Group, Just Kiln’ Time Pottery Painting, Humboldt Park, Milwaukee County Zoo, and Havenwoods State Park
• Potential Themed Activities Include: Onsite bingo, create your own stop motion movie with movie premiere and red carpet photos, Water Day, onsite guided meditation, rocket launch, egg drop contest, Tye Dye Day, Weaving, outside scavenger hunts, diy bug kit, arborist presentation, and a Talent Show

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Art Room Seeking Donations

The Art room is seeking skeins of yarn in all colors and varieties leftover from crocheting or knitting projects.  Please send to the Art room anytime now through early April. Thank you so much.

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MPS Summer Academy/Summer School

Please see the attached flyer for details on MPS Summer Academy.  This year Fernwood was not selected as a site for this program but there are lots of options available.

ElementarySummerAcademyFlyerEnglish.pdf

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SAVE THE DATE – FERNWOOD FLIGHTS END OF YEAR CELEBRATION

Mark your calendars and start arranging your childcare for this year’s Fernwood Flights on Sunday, June 9th (11am-3pm) at The Sugar Maple.  Fernwood Flights is the annual end-of-year celebration where Fernwood parents and community members gather to meet new people, laugh with old friends, enjoy some good food and beverages, win some great auctions, and have fun raising money to enhance the learning experience and environment at Fernwood Montessori.  Tickets are on sale now at https://events.readysetauction.com/mpsfdn/beerscheers24.

P.S. If you would like to learn more about donating auction items, being a corporate level sponsor, or getting involved as a parent volunteer with the Fernwood Fund, please send an email to Brett at brett.mytys@gmail.com.

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Our School is Cool!

There’s always something cool going on at Fernwood…like GaGa ball!  What is the GaGa Pit you ask?  It has no relation to Mother Monster herself, but it is ALL THE RAGE with the Lower El and Upper El.  If you would like to dazzle the youngsters with your exhaustive knowledge of this Israeli playground game, read on!

Coach_Cliff_Gaga_Ball_Pits_Rules.pdf

https://thegagasphere.com/what-is-gaga/

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Music Information from Mr. Miller

There is LOTS of information from Mr. Miller about Choir and MANY other music opportunities for our students.  Please see the link for his update which includes ways to sign up.

Fernwood Music 2023-24

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