Weekly Update Sept. 7 - 11
September 2nd, 2026
The 1946 London Lectures, p. 36
Happening this week:
Friday, Sept. 4th:
Friday Coffee Hour:
Join us after drop-off every Friday morning!
POTLUCK (afterschool)
3:30pm through 5:30pm
Monday, Sept. 7th:
Labor Day (School Closed)
Tuesday, Sept. 8th:
Pizza Day
The sixth year class is happy to announce our returning partnership with Hometown Pizza in Thomaston for our weekly Pizza Lunch Fundraiser!
Pizza will be served on the first school day of the week. Our first pizza day will be Tuesday, September 8th. Pizza orders are tallied and ordered during the early part of the students’ work cycle, so please submit all orders prior to 8:30 am, Sept 8th.
Thank you for your support!
Kate Gnitzcavich - Upper Elementary Guide & The Class of 2027
Monday, Sept. 14th:
Community Circle:
Find community in our circle of families! Come together with other school parents and relatives as we discuss topics concerning rasing children of all ages. How to support them in a Montessori way at home to reinforce what they are learning in the classroom.
Handbook Highlight:
Our Handbook Highlight draws attention to a section of the LMS Family Handbook that is especially helpful for families to know or revisit. While printed copies are available in the Front Office, our Family Handbook is a living document and may be updated throughout the year as practices or policies are clarified. In fact, we are modeling that this week: our first highlight, Arrival and Dismissal, includes an update made since Parent Night.
Arrival
The arrival procedure is designed to promote your child’s preparedness for class and ease separation anxieties which are a natural part of growing up. This is also an important part of the Montessori experience.
Early Birds opens at 7:45 a.m. Regular Drop-off begins at 8:15 a.m. and classrooms open at 8:30 a.m. If you arrive after 8:45 a.m., please park, walk your child to the front door, and ring the bell. A staff member will greet you and escort your child to their classroom.
Faculty/Staff members are at curbside to assist your child’s arrival. Please form a single line of traffic in the drop-off lane by the curb for arrival and dismissal. A Faculty/Staff member will escort your child to and from the school. As a courtesy to other parents, please do not leave your car while in line as this causes traffic to back up.
If you do park your car and walk your child to the school entrance, please say good-bye outside of the building. We wish to encourage each child’s development of independence by allowing him/her to enter the school on his/her own.
Please make every effort to arrive on time. When children enter the classroom late, the sense of order is compromised, and the peacefulness of the classroom is more difficult to maintain. Please allow your child to walk into the building on his or her own.
Dismissal
Children will be dismissed individually from their class’s waiting area. For your child’s safety, the front office must have permission, in writing, if someone other than the parent/guardian is picking the child up from school. Please send in a note or Remind message as soon as you know alternative pick-up arrangements have been made to give the office staff time to share this information with faculty and staff responsible for dismissing students.
Regular Dismissal Schedule:
11:30 a.m. YPC & CH – Mornings Only (depart prior to lunch)
12:00 p.m. YPC & CH – Mornings Only (stay for lunch)
3:00 p.m. Young People’s Community and Children’s House - Full Day
3:15 p.m. Elementary
3:15 – 5:00 p.m. Aftercare
Early Dismissal
All students are dismissed at 12:00 p.m.
No Aftercare services are available on early dismissal days.
Looking ahead...
