Collective Montessori PTSA

Hello all! Due to illnesses, we are going to reschedule our PTSA meeting for next Tuesday (tentatively) and will make an official announcement for sure! We are also calling on all our parents for some assistance with our upcoming fundraiser! We have simplified tasks to make it easier for all to help out! More tasks may be added later but this is a great start! Please sign up via our sign-up genius and if you have any questions, please IM me Nicole Kirk or call/text 414-610-0575! Thanks all!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0944ABA62EA4FBCF8-62477893-collective

It’s a busy week for us!

Join us this week as we celebrate our kids and staff!

We are in need of the following:

Donations of:

🎁 Wrapping paper (we have about 300 gifts to wrap)
❄️Tape
🏷️Sticker gift tags

Volunteers:

❄️Tuesday between 11am-3pm to wrap the gifts for all students and their siblings (we need lots of help!)

❄️Volunteers on Friday to donate breakfast and lunch foods for the staff appreciation meal

❄️Volunteers to set-up the breakfast and lunch meals on Friday (7:30-8:15 for breakfast) (10:30-11am for lunch)

See sign-up in comments to sign-up for a food item and to see staff favorite things list for gift ideas if you are gifting something this holiday season.

Collective Montessori School families and community are invited to join us for our resource fair tomorrow from 5-7 pm.

Our PTSA will be giving out FREE resources to anyone present. We have hygiene products, food, cleaning supplies, home good items, baby supplies, giftable items for the holiday season and more!

Come “SHOP,” and take what you need/want from the collective Montessori PTSA in partnership with Amazon.

Tomorrow!

Join us for pastries (and more) from 8-9am in the school cafeteria. This is for parents/guardians to get to know one another better! Babies/toddlers welcome.

(Please note, this is not an event for kids that attend Collective Montessori-they will need to go directly to class).

Can’t stay? Don’t worry, the outreach committee still wants to appreciate you! Rozalynn and Martice will be in the drop off line handing out to go breakfasts which include oranges, granola bars, muffins, a crumble cookie and juice!

Additionally, our adolescent children are soft launching their coffee shop for parents tomorrow! The PTSA will provide juice tomorrow morning, and coffee and hot chocolate will be available for purchase. Funds raised will be used to add more field trips for the adolescent class!

Dear Families,

Our PTSA meeting is tonight, October 21st from 4:15-to 5:15 pm. This meeting will be held upstairs. You can also attend virtually via zoom. Join us as we discuss and begin to plan the 2025/2026 events. We need more parent involvement to make them happen!

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These meetings will be the third Tuesday of every month and are open to all parents, guardians, caregivers, staff, and 6th to 8th grade students at CMS. We need all gifts and talents and all levels of time commitment welcomed and appreciated.

Join our meeting in-person or virtually and you will be entered into a raffle to win a prize!

Joining the PTSA meetings can also count toward your school participation.

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Last day for our scholastic book fair! We have books in all price ranges. Here in the library until 5:30. Stop by before or after the picnic.

Dear Families,

Our PTSA is holding their first meeting TOMORROW, September 16th from 4:15-to 5:15 pm. This meeting will be held upstairs in one of the rooms across from the book fair taking place in the library! You can also attend virtually via zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82658647876?pwd=HHRhtt6vbjM21JgEgd0zBwbQnYXa5k.1

These meetings will be the third Tuesday of every month and are open to all parents, guardians, caregivers, staff, and 6th to 8th grade students at CMS. We need all gifts and talents and all levels of time commitment welcomed and appreciated.

Join our meeting in-person or virtually tomorrow and you will be entered into a raffle to win a prize!

Joining the PTSA meetings can also count toward your school participation.

Please see the attached flyer for more information and we hope to see you there.

Also taking place during the PTSA meeting, our second annual book fair! Stop by before or after the PTSA meeting in the library! There will be a table there as well with additional items for sale from the PTSA.

A special-shout out of gratitude to parent and PTSA member Nicole Kirk for single-handeldly planning the book fair, setting it up, and bringing this amazing event to the kids and families all week long! You don’t want to miss out-this year is even bigger and better!

When we talk about Collective Montessori School to the public, you will hear us said we are a community based, collective school often. Because that’s exactly what we are-led with the community and in community.

Today, we picked up five more car loads of donations from Amazon. These products are near Best Buy date, some boxes are damaged, or something else led them to be discarded ( but they are perfectly good items).

Today we intentionally planned on picking up items for other community organizations to make sure that these products get into the community and don’t go to waste.

Our small but mighty PTSA is proud to not only support our amazing school and staff, but to also support organizations in the community.

Two car fulls worth of formula, nose Fridas, Hakkas for catching milk, dock a tots, and more went with CMS parent and PTSA outreach co-chair Rozalynn Perkins who will be distributing them to new moms and to Milwaukee based doulas to distribute to their clients.

A half car load of shelf-stable goods and formula went to cafe, a pay what you can cafe down the road from our school that serves vegan food and provides food for free to those food insecure, no questions asked. Tricklebee is working on closing the gap since the closure of Pick n Save (which is next to our school) making our school area a food desert area.

A car and a half went to Academy outreach coordinator who will distribute amongst their school, families and need and utilize in their food pantry.

And of course, items went to Collective Montessori. Hygiene items will be distributed during our book fair to families, gifts are being put aside for our holiday party, boxes and boxes of snacks are being put in the closet for our kiddos and for our community room for families in need, and supplies for classrooms and staff are being distributed, including new items for our kiddos with sensory needs.

We are grateful to parent Jessica Krajcik for this connection, to Gina and all the other staff at Amazon, and to parents Andrea Bilello, Nicole Kirk, Amy Catherine Scales and Jessica for driving to Kenosha, loading up, unloading and organizing the items!

JOIN US! Whether you are a parent or guardian or just a supporter of CMS, we can use your time, gifts and talents to continue to grow our community led school!

Thank you to a generous donor for fulfilling the fundraising request from Collective Montessori School for an AED defibrillator for the school. This anonymous donor generously donated funds for the school to be able to purchase TWO AED sets to make sure that we have life-saving measures on site for our kids and staff.

THANK YOU!