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HERMOSA MONTESSORI COMMUNITY TIMES
by Sheila
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DATES TO REMEMBER
Dec 21-Jan 01
Winter Break
NO SCHOOL
Mon Jan 04
School Resumes
Thu Jan 07
H.O.P.E. Meeting
6:30 p.m. Location T.B.D.
Hermosa’s Parent Organization
welcomes your participation!
WINTER 2015
Inside This Issue:
The Child’s Inherent Love of
Nature....................................................1
Preschool and
Kindergarten News..............................2
Lower Elementary News..................3-4
Upper Elementary News......................5
Middle School News.............................6
Art News............................................7-8
Choir News............................................6
Standardized Testing............................9
JHU’s Talented Youth...........................9
Staff Spotlight........................................9
Mon Jan 11
Bake Sale
Sheila’s classroom fundraiser
Mon Jan 18
Civil Rights Day
NO SCHOOL
Mon Jan 18
Hermosa Day of Service
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Tue-Fri Jan 19–22
Sibling and Continuing
Enrollment for 2016-2017
Wed Jan 20
Journey of Discovery
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Tue Jan 26
Journey of Discovery
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Wed Jan 27
Upper Elementary Field Trip
Saguaro National Park East
Thu Jan 28
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
9:30 a.m. (On campus)
(Lower Elementary - Your
extracurricular dollars at work!)
Fri Feb 05
Chinese New Year Parade
10:15 a.m.
The Child’s Inherent
Love Of Nature
by Maren Schmidt
What do you do to find yourself
when you are out of sorts? Frustrated? Sorrowful? Despairing?
If you are like most people, you
try to find a quiet spot to commune
with nature and seek peace or solace. Solace, a word from the Latin sol for sun, meaning to find the
sun. We have to be close to nature
to find the sun, and in the process
we find ourselves.
This connection to peace is
formed within each of us as a
young child.
Humans are born with an innate ability to constructively connect to the world around them
using all their senses–seeing,
hearing, touching, smelling and
tasting. As infants, we attach ourselves lovingly to items that we
see, touch, taste, hear and smell.
Think of all the blankets and
stuffed toys in the world, doted
on for years by their small owners. As every parent knows after a
bleary-eyed midnight search for a
lost “blankie,” a misplaced object
of affection can create inconsolable anguish in a child.
Wherever we go in the world,
even when security blankets and
stuffed animals are left behind,
nature is there to comfort us. The
sun, the moon, the stars belong
to us forever. The wind, the smell
of rain, the feel of rocks, dirt and
sand, the rustle of trees, the colors of flowers, the shifting forms
of clouds, the prickle of grass between our toes—are there wherever we go. The call of a bird, an
earthworm, a squirrel running up
a tree can help us connect to that
peaceful part of us.
These childhood connections
to nature remain strong throughout all of our lives. Research
shows that as we age, or if we are
ill, we regain and maintain health
faster in the geographic places
where we spent the first six years
of our lives.
On a trip to pick apples, my
husband called his mother to ask
if we could bring her apples. “I’d
love to have some King apples,”
she said. “We had a King apple
tree in our yard when I was a
kid.” Her first choice of apples
was the kind that grew in her
backyard when she was five years
old.
We are meant to connect to
our time and place through our
love of nature. This connection
to the earth creates a way for us
to remember who we are, and
that the beauty of the universe
belongs to every one of us on this
planet. All we have to do is be.
Even though I have been alive
for over 18,000 sunsets, my favorites are the red purple pink
big sky ones of my Oklahoma
childhood. There is something
indescribably comforting in
those bold watercolored sundowns.
This love of nature formed in
childhood, from apples to sunsets, gives our soul roots. From
these roots we sprout wings, carrying us on the adventure of our
life.
Have you taken a child on a
walk today? Taste the rain, smell
the sun, hear the trees, watch the
wind, and touch a heart.
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Preschool and Kindergarten
Mary, Katie & Ashley’s classroom
The last few weeks have seen
a flurry of activity in our classroom! We began November by
talking about seeds and plant
growth. Lina Rosin brought in
flower bulbs for the children to
plant in the bed by the front office. Stop by and see how the
shoots have just begun to pop
out of the soil! The Holliday
family assisted our kids in planting vegetables and flowers in our
garden bed. (Thanks all of you!) “Do seeds need soil to grow?” We found the answer by planting
lima bean seeds in cups and plastic bags, some with soil and some
without. It has been fun to watch
the children check their seeds for
germination and root growth! Simple pleasures!
Carbohydrates, vitamins, cal-
News from Sally, Sherri & JoAnn’s class
cium, and protein were topics
this last week as we talked about
how these play a role in keeping
our body healthy. (Thanks Michelle, Regan, Amber, and Tina
for your help with food prep!) Our classroom smelled wonderful as children prepared food
for our Harvest meal. They saw
how mesquite beans and popcorn kernels can be ground
into flour to make bread, and
all got chances to measure, mix,
chop, and stir their morning
away. Our work culminated
in a sit-down meal where we
had a chance to enjoy a hearty,
healthy meal. Thanks Amber,
Michelle, Eliana, Lindsay, and
Keliegh, for your willingness to
help!
We have had the loveliest of autumns! Tina Hetland prepared a
presentation on the Vietnamese midautumn lunar festival, Tet Trung Thu,
for the children. She told them the
story of the lunar goddess and her
pet rabbit – a story told to her by her
mother – and she gave the children a
handmade copy of the story for the
class library. She also treated everyone to a special snack of mooncakes
with little rabbits on the top! Many
thanks to Tina for such a thoughtful
presentation.
Taking advantage of our beautiful
weather, we went on our first nature
outings as “practicing scientists.” To
prepare we discussed what science
actually is – the study of everything
– and of what scientists actually do
– ask questions and then try to find
answers to those questions by doing
careful observations, using all their
senses. We then broke into three
groups and hit the trail! Sherri’s
group observed the desert by the
tortoise enclosure. JoAnn’s group
observed the flower garden between
the elementary classroom buildings.
Sally’s older group, with the help of
Doug Meredith, observed the riparian area by the pond. It was a wonderful morning. The older children
then wrote about their discoveries in
their journals.
We want to thank everyone who
helped us prepare for our Thanksgiving feast. The children really enjoyed
the process and devoured the pies!
Special thanks to Simon Crawford,
Roula Khawam, Doug Meredith, Michelle Manherz and Aimee Cronenberg for their help in the classroom.
We couldn’t do what we do without
the support of such wonderful parents!!
We also want to give very special
thanks to the Vollmer extended family for the beautiful autumn leaves they
sent to use from all over the country.
They are decorating all our windows
and have given the children such a
lovely appreciation for the great natural beauty within our country.
demonstration (Brazil), and watching a Mayan folk dance in traditional dress (Guatemala). As our
world travels ended, the children
visited Sheila’s class for Angel’s presentation about Mexico on Día de
los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.
Angel made an altar which included
items contributed by Sheila and Angel. The children played with toys
from different regions of Mexico
and sampled Mexican candy. Ask
your child if they remember how to
use a molcajete.
Our celebration of cultural diversity culminated in the International
Children’s Day Parade on October
30. The children represented different countries and wore outfits
representing those countries. As a
special treat, the children received a
bagpipe demonstration from middle school student Lennon Brollini,
who later led all of the preschool
and kindergarten children in a spirited parade around the school. After the parade, the children enjoyed
an International Potluck Lunch.
Parents provided food from the
various countries represented by
the children. The delicious feast
included Feijoada and cheese bread
(Brazil), lumpia (Philippines), calabacita (Mexico), Canadian bacon,
fried rice, French pastries, and an
assortment of other sweet treats
from around the world. Thanks to
Suzie and Bob, the children ended
a fun-filled day by going outside
and bobbing for popsicles tied to a
string!
Throughout November, the children watched with anticipation as
the plants in our Children’s Garden
continued to grow. On November
23, children and parents chopped
vegetables together in anticipation
of our Harvest Celebration Lunch.
On the following day, the children
prepared Friendship Soup, Friendship Bread, and pumpkin pie. Each
child contributed ingredients for the
wonderful food that we shared in
appreciation of the fall harvest. Our
parent volunteers gave food preparation lessons to the children, who
contributed to the lunch by rolling
and braiding dough, chopping vegetables, stirring the soup, mixing the
pie filling, cracking eggs, measuring ingredients, and cutting dough.
The Friendship Soup contained a
very special ingredient – fresh kale
straight from our Children’s Garden! In this season of gratitude,
we send a special thank you to the
parent volunteers who helped in the
classroom with our activities: Suzie,
Bob, Judi, Keren, Nora, and Susan.
Ruth & Angel’s classroom
October was a busy month in our
classroom as the children continued
their study of the world and prepared
to celebrate International Children’s
Day. The children prepared their
very own passports, complete with
their photographs and blank pages
in the back for stamps. With their
passports in hand, the children “visited” the Philippines, Canada, Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico by way
of presentations from Ruth, Angel,
Lilian, Susan, Suzie and Paula. They
also played games from China, Russia, and Norway. At the end of each
presentation and game, the students
lined up with excitement to receive
a stamp of the country’s flag in their
passport. Highlights of the presentations included sampling quail
eggs and jackfruit (Philippines),
taste-testing maple syrup (Canada),
watching a capoeira martial arts
Photos by Nora Alcantara-Sheppard
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Lower Elementary
Sheila and Autumn’s class again
visited with the elders from ElderHaven. To prepare for the visit we
practiced lessons from the Social
Grace and Courtesy curriculum,
learned how to speak to and greet
our elders, and share stories and
information. The children shared a
presentation with their elders which
focused on the theme of thankfulness, our November virtue, with
poems, songs, and a play focusing on that theme. On campus, the
children presented their program
on Thankfulness to the pre-school/
kindergarten classes.
A Visit to Elderhaven
by Lilly
We are visiting Elderhaven on
Friday. We cannot wait to meet the
elders of our communities. We will
be doing a play about Thanksgiving.
I hope the elders will like it. My best
friend and I will lead a song. I am
sure everyone will think putting on
a show is amazing especially when it
is for elders.
Each November a deciduous
tree on the playground treats the
children to a beautiful display of
autumn leaf colors. Students in
Sheila-Autumn’s class spent part
of a morning under the beautiful
leaves assimilating science lessons
on the process of this change and
combining art and written expression as they made “rubbings” of the
leaves and wrote accompanying poems. Below are a few of the beautiful
poems they wrote.
Beautiful Leaves
by Madison
In winter when the flowers go away
Something else is here today.
Where the sun leaves the sky
And the birds never fly.
When the trees’ leaves turn from orange to red
The kids are riding on a sled.
And all the world to the trees,
Yes, there are beautiful leaves.
Dancing in the Wind
by Ryleigh
It is silent in the dancing day
As the red and yellow tree
Is beautifully dancing in the wind
Beautiful like sparkling dust
I love Trees
by Ella
Red, orange leaves
Green, red leaves
Half red leaves
Yellow red leaves
Red green leaves
Yellow peeking leaves
I love trees.
Joyful Leaves
by Megan
Leaves are joyful
Leaves are pretty
Leaves are dazzling
Leaves are green
Leaves are red
Leaves are yellow
Leaves are bright.
Leaves
by Massimo
Leaves are amazing
They have stems
They do not have legs.
Beautiful Leaves
by Santino
Beautiful soft leaves are great
I love them
And they feel like humans
A Visit to Elderhaven
by Christine
We are visiting Elderhaven on
Friday. I am going to sing. I am
singing I Am Thankful. I invited
Lilly to go with me to sing. I am excited to go and meet them. The play
we are doing is about being thankful, and the first Thanksgiving Feast.
The lead singers are me, Lilly, and
Ryleigh. This will be a special day!
Awesome Trees
by Grady
Trees are awesome
Trees are cool
Trees help us
We help them
Trees are the best
Yes they are
Like trees?
Yes, I do!
Lower elementary students write
by Connor
We have lunch at 11 o’clock. I have
carrots and pizza today. I play
weeds. It is a game. The teacher
reads after play time. After that we
do work then go to dismissal. That’s
the day at school.
we lit the candle Michael put a flask a good time at school. I like music
over the candle and it burned out. a lot. It is fall. I like choir. I like to
That’s why I like school.
play outside.
by Abigail
Today we had science and we used
dry ice and it was very cool! When
Michael put the dry ice in the bowl
by Lyla
it melted. Usually the dry ice does
On Friday we have choir and sing not melt. The lower elementary is
many songs. On Tuesday we have very nice. I like science because
art and the starting art project is the it’s cool. I like school! I love play
symmetrical fish. On Thursday we time! I like music. It is fun when
have science and morning music it is music.
and sharing. Children are allowed
to teach a science lesson. I taught by Rylee
a science lesson about oil and water My favorite place is the bridge beand everyone loved it.
cause there are lots of flowers and
they smell nice. Even the leaves
by Martina
smell nice! And Sheila’s class has
There has been a new art project the biggest bead frame in history. It
called Dazzling Dinos. You do your is taller than myself! And they need
own dino and it is fun. In music a long stick to move it!
we have been doing “pick a pick
a pumpkin on the ground.” It is a by Jacqueline
song and a game. It is fun. In sci- I like art a lot. School is fun! I like
ence we have been doing a lot of to work. I like to go on the comstuff like making a vacuum. When puter. I like to make stories. I have
by Ryleigh
Hi my name is Ryleigh. I am the
new school reporter and I have
some news for you. This Friday
Sheila’s class is going to Elderhaven.
It might sound boring but it is not!
Believe it or not it is super fun!
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Lower elementary students write
by Maia
I think science is cool. The last time
we did science was when we did science with dry ice. I also think choir
is cool too! Choir is a place where
you sing and you have a group of
people singing with you. Art is cool
too. I made a two headed dinosaur,
and I thought it was cool.
Friendship Soup
by John
For the Friendship Soup we all have
to bring some vegetables to make it.
Classroom Publishing
by Sheila
We have to bring them on Monday Students in Sheila-Autumn’s and
and it will cook overnight. Then we Don-Diane’s class worked hard
will eat it on Tuesday before lunch. on the steps involved in the writing process by writing classroom
by Madison
books to be published soon. StuWe have been taking care of our dents practiced and implemented
plants at school. Sheila’s class has their handwriting skills and lessons,
been planting their own plants. as well as lessons on ideation, senMadison, Lilly, and more kids in my tence and paragraph construction,
class are so excited for our plants to conventions, editing, and publishsprout. I can’t wait to see my plant. ing. Interesting to note, both classes
independently and without consultation chose the “virtue” theme for
their books. The hard copy books
will soon be available in the classroom libraries.
by QuinLynne
Don’s class is writing a Virtue Book.
The story has to be based on a virtue. We have to first write the story
in our work journal then on a lined
piece of paper then on a piece of
special paper. It will be fun. Then
we draw a picture to go with our
story.
Grandparents-Grand friends Day in Sheila-Autumn’s Classroom
Students in Sheila and Autumn’s
classroom honored their grandparents or “grand friends” Friday,
December 11. Students presented
a play, shared their classroom
activites along with songs and poems, art activities, and a special
snack “gingerbread house” activity.
The special bond between grand- together. Autumn and I especially
parents and children is wonderful enjoyed watching the children with
to behold and all participating in their grandparents.
the day enjoyed this special time
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Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary Students Write
by Liam
The field trip to Presidio was very
fun. After every station they fired
the musket. The stations were the
whitesmith and blacksmith, the soldiers, wool bracelets, cooking, childrens chores, writing and fun and
games. At the end they fired the
cannon. It made a shockwave so big
that I got pushed back. It set off car
alarms and even opened the gates!
we also got to lasso fake cows. Then
we went to games/toys, the calligraphy station, the blacksmith and the
tinman, and to the soldier station.
The soldier station was one of my favorite stations. The man explained
by Fiona P.
Presidio San Augustín del Tucson is
a Spanish colonial fort downtown.
We took a field trip there. When we
got there we were split up into different groups and assigned a color.
We lined up behind colored flags
and then we got the rules explained
to us. The first station that I went to
was the chores station, there we got
by Zach
The fall party in upper elementary
was very fun. At the party there
was food and drinks that were very
good. The games were pretty fun,
some of them were limbo, freeze
dance, and cupid shuffle. The fall
party had another cool feature, you
could wear a costume! I didn’t because I forgot mine, but there were
many amazing costumes, such as
Gandalf, a banana, a hot dog, and a
horse head. This was our first party
of this semester and we started off
on the right foot.
to plant seeds, make bread, churn
butter, get eggs from “chickens” and
The Cave 100,000 Years Ago
It was time for the 4th year’s history lesson-little did we know, we
were going to go 100,000 years back
in time! However, before we went
back in time we unwound a timeline outside to give us an impression
of how long we’ve each been around
by Elias
Hermosa’s Land Lab is on property
by Randy’s house. We get to take
field trips there. There is a wash, a
tool shed, a bunch of fountains and
wind chimes, and an eating area
(which is where we ate lunch). We
were supposed to be making a small
pond but, we made a small pond
with an island in the middle of it.
We were using shovels and rakes
to make the pond. If you wanted a
break you could rock climb the side
of the wash. When I took a break it
smelled like skunk at the top! There
is a very “special” tradition, it is
very funny, someone puts mud on
Randy’s bald spot! After the wash
don’t really use a cannonball, they we had to pack up and get back to
put oatmeal in a ball of tinfoil, light school.
the fuse and ba-boom! You’ve got a
cannonball.
by Ted
I had lots of fun at the Middle
School carnival. Playing the games
was very fun and the food was super tasty. You could buy tickets for
one dollar or a bracelet for twenty
dollars and if you bought a bracelet
you could play as many games as
you wanted! The carnival was not
only fun but helpful too because the
money made there was to help support the Middle School’s end of the
year field trip.
all of the different weapons to us,
then we got to dress up in Spanish
armor and pretend to be soldiers for
a little while. Then we made tortillas and ground corn. The tortilla
was AMAZING! The last thing that
we did was watch them shoot a cannon. But their big secret is that they
by Malina
compared to the three million years
our ancestors have been on Earth.
I’m a big zero because I’ve only been
around nine years!
Listening to music, and doing a
conga line, we came back inside and
finally got to go back in time. Anne
told us our time portal would be
open until the music stopped playing so we all headed into the cave.
Inside it was pitch black. We started
exploring the cave, and I stepped on
something squishy! It was a snake!
Well, it was really a rubber snake.
There were also arrowheads and a
real skull! After we looked around,
we lit a candle and talked about
what we found and cave people.
It was the best history lesson yet!
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Middle School
Page to Stage: Seeing Stories Come to Life
The autumn time is a busy one
for the middle school. During this
second cycle of the year, students
have been working hard on the
new theme, Structures. Within this
theme, we have studied many topics, including forms of government
in Social World (Social Studies), as
well as the periodic table and the
structure of elements and atoms in
Natural World (Science). In addition to our cycle two curriculum,
students have been scripting and
practicing for “Page to Stage,” a fall
by Jill
middle school tradition.
Students from the preschool/kindergarten, lower and upper elementary have the opportunity to write
their own stories. Middle school
students then transform the stories into plays, with the help of our
wonderfully creative Theater and
Choir director, Sabrina Petty. With
the help of her family, Sabrina constructed countless props, costumes,
and beautiful sets for the Page to
Stage production. With her guidance, middle school students have
learned how to write scripts, follow
stage directions, and use voice projection to make the show shine. The
result? An amazing set of plays the
students present to the preschool
and elementary children, all created
out of the stories they wrote.
“I really like the way that it connects all the communities and it’s
something we all share,” says 7th
grader Kyra Madrid. During the final week prior to the presentations,
the community becomes a bustling
hive of activity, with tables pushed
back to make way for stage curtains
and sets. Students practiced and
memorized their lines, culminating
in the “dress rehearsal” for Sabrina
for the final approval. “It’s fun seeing the stories come to life, and great
to see the creativity of the students,”
says Sabrina. One thing is for sure—
it is a lot of work but well worth the
effort! Thanks to all the classes who
contributed such great stories this
year! Younger students look forward to and greatly enjoy this special annual presentation.
Choir News by Sabrina
What a joy it is to work with both the Hermosa Children’s Chorus
and the Hermosa Singers. We’ve performed some exciting songs
this year. I am so pleased at how the children have worked to learn
their music, some of which has been very challenging. We were
delighted to share our music with you at our performance on December 12th. Thanks to all who attended and thank you for supporting the arts at Hermosa!
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Art News by Carol
Lower elementary students recently made caterpillar collages and “dazzling dinos.” The caterpillar project involved a two-step process.
First, students made textured paper using sponges and paint. They also painted a printed butterfly. Second, they cut out six circles from
their textured paper and layered the circles to create a caterpillar. They used black strips of construction paper to make legs and antennae.
The project required the use of many skills practiced in previous art classes.
For the “dazzling dinos” project, students drew a dinosaur and put it in an imaginary landscape. Using the resist technique, they colored
their dinosaurs dazzling colors with oil pastel and painted the background with watercolor.
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Art News continued
Fourth year students learned about the tradition of Day of the Dead. After looking at many Mexican designs, they made
celebratory Day of the Dead skulls using sharpies, sequins, and tissue paper flowers.
Fifth year art elective students are working on three hand built functional and decorative ceramic pieces. The first piece
was a “floating leaf bowl” with nature impressions and either a ladybug or snake. The second piece was a wall hanging
fish. The last piece will be a pinch pot with a lid. The pieces are glazed and fired. The students learn how to attach pieces
by scoring the clay and using slip (watered down clay).
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Standardized Testing
When Arizona switched from
Arizona Academic Standards to
Common Core Standards, the state
implemented a new test last spring.
The results are finally here. Only
one third of Arizona’s public school
students (34%) passed in English
Language Arts (ELA) and Math
(35%). In Pima County, the results
were very similar, with 34% passing
ELA and 33% passing Math. However, Hermosa students outranked
the state and county with 69%
passing in ELA and 59% passing
in Math; 35% higher in ELA and
24% higher in Math than the state
average! According to the Arizona
Charter Schools Association, charter schools scored 10% higher than
the state average. To read the full ar-
ticle follow this link: https://azcharters.org/charter-schools-representa-bright-spot-in-azmerit-scores/.
On October 26, 2015, the Arizona
State Board of Education in a 6-2
decision voted to repeal the Common Core State Standards. While
this decision allows Arizona to customize standards, Hermosa continues to teach a “tried and true”
Montessori based curriculum using
Montessori philosophy, materials, and methods that are over 100
years old. As the state of Arizona
decides what changes to standards
and testing are in our future, we can
be proud of our students’ historically high academic achievement.
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (CTY) began
in 1979 when Dr. Julian Stanley,
a psychology professor at Johns
Hopkins University, introduced
the first talent search designed to
identify, challenge, and reward academically able young people. CTY’s
mission is to inspire young people
by offering distinctive educational
Staff Spotlight
opportunities that nurture intellectual abilities, advance academic
achievement, and enhance personal development. Through state
test results, CTY is able to identify
top academic students from grades
three through eight and provide
challenging education programs
through 12th grade. To qualify for
the talent search a student must
score in the 95th percentile or
higher on a reasoning section of
a nationally standardized test or
have state test results categorized at
the highest levels of performance,
such as “Highly Proficient” on the
AzMERIT, in either English language arts, math or both.
As members of the Hermosa
Montessori community, we can
share in the pleasure of knowing
that 32 out of the 111 children who
participated in the Spring 2015
AzMERIT state test are eligible to
participate in the 2016 CTY talent
search. Congratulations to all!
For more information about
CTY, visit their website at http://
cty.jhu.edu/.
by Sheila
To keep Hermosa running smoothly and to comply with the reporting
requirements as an Arizona public
school, there are many “behind the
scenes” tasks and requirements.
Theresa Garrone completes these
tasks with a smile! This includes
the many, many mandated reports
she completes efficiently. In fact, she
does daily attendance tracking, an
important and audited task, weekly
state attendance uploads, six ADMS
(Average Daily Membership Summary) reports monthly, three federal reports, five grant reports, and
three monthly grant management
reports. That is a lot of reports! This
means that when the state changes
reporting requirements, she must
learn the new system, and perhaps
hold for a very long time while wait-
ing for a representative to assist her
when the system is malfunctioning
and she must still meet a deadline. It
also means “fun” attendance at yearly asbestos training, even though we
have no asbestos in our buildings
and can prove this! In addition,
Theresa completes HR duties that
include compliance for employees,
employee benefits management,
property management, and student
guidance. She also fills in for Kristin during lunch and may fix a “boo
boo” or console a sick or injured
child. There is undoubtedly more
that Theresa does during her days
that I am forgetting. Let me just say
that Theresa is indispensable and
wonderful! Thank you Theresa, for
all that you do for Hermosa.
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