CMES Sixth Years are excited to look forward to an actual overnight experience at a local camp! Meanwhile, at school, we can’t wait to offer a week-long drumming residency! These types of hands-on experiences are an important component of Montessori education. Like most public schools, we rely on grants and gifts from generous donors to help us provide special programs for our children, so we are asking for your assistance to make this happen!
This year ourGive to the Max goal is set at $6,500 and funds will be used for “Going Outs,” including an overnight outdoor education experience for our 6thyears, and for enhancing our programming on-site at Cornerstone.
Giving is super easy!Click here for the CMES donation page on the GiveMN website. And be sure to read about all the prizes that are available with each donation, starting on November 1st and running through the 21st!
Whether you give $5 or $500, we are grateful for your gift in any amount. Thank you!
Monthly Newsletters
If you would like to hear from Cornerstone more than twice a year, keep an eye on our website! In our monthly newsletter we share tidbits from the classrooms, updates from the Montessori Center of Minnesota and the Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School Board of Directors, a letter from our Head of School, and other community notes. Click to read the Septemberor OctoberMonthly Newsletters.
Annual International Day of Peace Celebration
Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School’s Annual Peace Day Celebration is next Friday, September 20, at 11:15, and you’re invited! Peace Day has been celebrated around the world ever since 2002, and our school holds a community celebration to honor the day that the UN created. We’ve been doing this ever since 2017! There’s a lot of cool presentations that we show to the whole school like singing, reciting poems that we make ourselves, and telling famous quotes to the crowd. Please join us if you can!
Connor and Donovan, two of CMES’ sixth years, shared the above announcement in our Stepping Stones weekly update. After the fact, we can assure you that there were, indeed, a lot of “cool presentations” and the celebration was as beautiful and creative as it is every year. Click herefor a lovely video :)
CMES Equity Committee
The Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School Board of Directors is recruiting parents and community members to join the school’s Equity Committee. After a school-wide training in anti-racism during the 2023-24 school year, and after an equity audit with community partners, the CMES Board is eager to dive into hands-on work. The CMES Equity Committee is chaired by Sarah Stocco, long-time parent and CMES board member, and will support the development and review of policies and handbooks from an equity lens, as well as provide an equity perspective to professional development opportunities. We are excited to see where this work takes us.
What a Year!
Just two months into the school year and we are already seeing incredible work in the classrooms. In Children’s House 1, the children are pairing and grading the bells as a group, and enjoying recess while, in Forest, they are memorizing (and singing) the periodic table. Every year is special at Cornerstone, but this year we finally feel like we are out of the pandemic and children are truly engaging and learning every single day.
Your generosity enables us to continue to do what we do best: give children the opportunity to thrive. Every donation received during Give to the MAX Day, and through the year, goes directly to supporting the programs that serve the children. We thank you for your support and hope to see you at a school event this year!
