Parent Volunteers are an integral part of the MTS Community!

Mr. Bill reads with a Lower Elementary student. Parent readers volunteer to listen to and read with students.

Montessori Tides School has the support of wonderful parents and grandparents. They make clay for classes. They read and provide cooking lessons with children. They bring craft projects and supplies into the classrooms. They help with special events and field trips. They provide healthy organic snacks. They participate in school events. They also bring their talents to share with the school.

All of this support helps to make our school a special place for our children to learn in a Montessori environment that is nurturing and hands-on.

As this school year winds down, we want to thank all of you who have supported MTS. Next year will bring more opportunities to support our children through the classrooms and the Montessori Tides Children’s Foundation.

For now, here’s a sample of the great things you can do for our school community. We appreciate you, and all that you do for our children and school.

Snack time is an important part of the children’s day. The children enjoy bringing the snack basket to school and sharing snacks with their classmates. Thanks to our parents, we have healthy organic snacks for our students.

Parent volunteers provide extra reading and research materials for the Lower Elementary classroom by being library book providers. Topics are provided, and the parents and their children check out the books for the classroom.

Miss Ashley helps a group of Lower Elementary students prepare fruit pizzas during a cooking session.

Miss Carrie helps the Lower Elementary students prepare for the Spring Performance.

A parent volunteer goes through hundreds of Box Tops for Education each year to help earn money for the school. More than $200 worth of Box Tops were turned in this academic year.

Miss Fatima, an MTS parent who works in the biology department at the University of North Florida and at Mayo Clinic as a researcher, conducts a chemistry lesson with the Upper Elementary students.

Parents participate in a Parent Work Day to help set up the new bird sanctuary behind the Primary playground.

The Bio-Book, the MTS yearbook, is created by a parent volunteer working with the Montessori Tides Children’s Foundation.

Comments

Jenny says

May 19, 2016 at 12:29 pm

Hurray for all our parents and thanks to school staff and teachers for inspiring us to engage in MTS activities as much as individually feasible and practicable! This is so important and enriching; it really sets our school apart from others. I love to hear from my child when he tells me stories about parent visitors/volunteers at school. You mean a lot, so thanks for sharing your time, talents, and gifts to make a difference in all our childrens’ developmental lives.