Good Evening Families,

Happy New Year and welcome back! We are excited to get back to school tomorrow and to reconnect with all of our students! 

There are not a lot of updates this week, but I want to highlight that this Saturday, January 10, Durham Public Schools will host the rescheduled Showcase of Schools. This is a great opportunity for our fifth grade families to learn more about the middle schools in Durham. Showcase of Schools will be at Northern High School from 10AM to 2PM this Saturday. 

Tomorrow, Monday, January 5, is also the first day of the Durham Public Schools lottery for application schools. Please help us spread the word to rising pre-K families! The application window runs through January 30.

Have a great week and we hope to see you around George Watts Montessori soon!

This week with Ms. Parfitt: I will be addressing feelings of sadness with primary and lower and big and small problems with our Upper Elementary students.  We will be using deep breathing techniques and listening to the read aloud “My Magic Breath”   Belly breaths or square breathing is something you can practice with your student at home. I'm a new paragraph block.

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