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Letter from

Head of School,

Margo O’Neill

Dear Parents,

Many of us have embraced the culture of doing.

We keep our children busy with academics, ath-

letics, and various after-school and community

activities, all valuable pursuits. Yet, in our tech-

nology-driven culture, downtime has shifted to

become gadget time. Our children seem to be

relaxing in front of their gadgets; however, neu-

roscientists demonstrate that the constant buzz-

ing and beeping of games and instant messages

causes a chronic stress response in the brain and

body. Beyond the damaging effects on cognitive

development, this busyness leaves no time for

what I would call, “calm time”.

This issue came up at a recent meeting I had with

some of our elementary teachers concerned

about an increasing lack of focus and concentra-

tion that they are seeing in some of their stu-

dents. They voiced their wish that children had

more unscheduled downtime: time to play in

the backyard, work a puzzle, play a board game,

practice some of the mindfulness activities they

do at school in the classroom.

Practicing mindfulness, in particular, is a great

way to help children learn to become more re-

sponsive and less reactive, leading to better deci-

sion-making and less conflict. Ask your child to

show you some of the things they do at school.

Practice them together. It will bring more a sense

of peace to both your lives.

Margo S. O’Neill

Head of School

Villa Voice February 17, 2016

Villa Makes Plans for

Pink Shirt Day

February 24th

is an Anti-Bullying Awareness

Day at Villa Montessori School! You may re-

member last year’s event as our first year par-

ticipating—and we are excited to keep it as an

ongoing Villa tradition.

February 24, 2016 is one of several internation-

ally celebrated anti-bullying days. Called “Pink

Shirt Day”, students in grades 1-8 are asked to

wear pink to show that we, as a community,

will not tolerate bullying. The idea for this

event came from two high school students who

decided to take a stand after witnessing the

bullying of a fellow student by encouraging

their classmates to wear pink the following day

in support of that student.

Throughout the month of February we will be

gearing up for this day with anti-bullying activi-

ties and lessons. We will be encouraging our

students to give back to the community and to

know that each of them can make a difference.

Also, this year we will be reaching out our ef-

forts to the Primary students as well.

So, please wear pink on February 24, 2016 in

honor of anti-bullying awareness!

For more information about bullying, you can

visit the government Web site StopBully-

ing.Gov for helpful advice.

http://www.stopbullying.gov

And remember...

HEY! Be nice!

Villa Tax Credit 2016


Primary:

Many jackets and items of clothing

from the Primary campus have re-

cently made their way to a huge pile

in the Early Childhood Office. While

we understand it is more difficult

with younger students to keep track

of their belongings — there are some

ways we can work together to help

this common issue.

If you have a child in a Primary class-

room — we strongly suggest that you

write your child’s full name on their

clothing — so that we can always do

our part to return it to you if it is lost.

Also, please stop by the office on a

regular basis to check for any lost

clothing — we are happy to help you

locate missing items!

Elementary:

On the Elementary campus, ALL

items are donated on the last Friday

of each month. If you have a child on

the Elementary campus, please

check our Elementary lost and found

pile (which can be found outside of

the Circle Room at the Davis Cam-

pus).

For February, the last day to check

the lost and found will be: February

29th.

Thank you for your cooperation!

LOST AND FOUND

Villa Tax Credit Contributors have until they file

their AZ State Taxes or April 15th

to contribute

to our Tax Credit Campaign. We need your

help to raise more in these dollars to support

Villa Extra Programs. You can donate on our

Website today!

www.villamontessori.com

Remember– it’s a Dollar For Dollar Credit to-

wards your 2015 Arizona State Taxes! No

money comes out of pocket.

Thank you for making the Villa Montessori

Campaign a success for our children!

What is the definition of Bullying?

bul·ly

1

ˈboo͝lē/ noun

Verb—gerund or present participle: bullying

Definition of Bullying on StopBullying.Gov—

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior

among school aged children that involves a

real or perceived power imbalance. The be-

havior is repeated, or has the potential to be

repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions

such as making threats, spreading rumors,

attacking someone physically or verbally, and

excluding someone from a group on purpose.

Thank you again to all who participated and donated to the Villa Fun Run! What a great event

for kids and family alike…we hope to make this an annual event for our community!

To hear more about the PTO as we head into our 2nd school

year, please join us next week for a general meeting. A little

business. but mostly fun visiting with our parent and staff

community! We will talk about the future of the PTO and

ways we can all help Villa achieve its goals to educate our

children. Hope to see you all there!

Click here for more details and to RSVP: http://evite.me/6vpW2EkdxE

Lights, Camera, Appreciation

The PTO is planning a Milestone Luncheon for the teachers and staff who are celebrating mile-

stone anniversaries at Villa: 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, and 25+ years (Below is the

list of people who we will be celebrating at the lunch.) We need your help to make it great!!

We have chosen an Oscar theme, and the lunch will be held on February 29th (the day after

the 'real' Oscars). The PTO Teacher Appreciation Committee plans to make this an annual tra-

dition/event at Villa. If you can contribute to the luncheon, please volunteer using the sign-up

genius page—linked here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0d49ada629a13-lights

There are many slots left!

35 Years: Mary Orlando 30 Years: Patty Langhurst 25+ Years: Marilyn Burbach, Jen Bailey 25

Years: Margo O'Neill 20 years: Sherra Sieben, Megan McGovern, Manuel Chimal

(Maintenance), 15 years: Maria Orlando, June Kraynik, Monica Bush, Sue Watson 10 years:

Patsy Taylor, Shawn Quinley, Karen Fisher, Brian Whitacre, Debbie Stucker 5 years: Stefanie

Lehmann

While there are many more wonderful teachers and staff who have been here for decades—

this Milestone Lunch will be the first event of many to start capturing these earned achieve-

ments. We look forward to making this a memorable event for all!

Have a great week! Hope to see you all next week!

www.vmpto.org

PTO Update


Dates to Remember

February 19 Middle School (Oak Campus)

Land Lab #3 ENDS

February 24 Pink Shirt Day —

Support Anti-Bullying Awareness by wearing PINK!

February 25

Mandatory Heroic Journey Meeting, for current Middle School parents

6:30 PM—Oak Campus

February 25 PTO General Meeting 6PM at Sun Up Brewery (no children, please)

March 1-4

Middle School (Weldon Campus)Land Lab #3

March 4

Summer School Forms Become available to Current Villa parents

March 7

First Day of Spring Break Infants-Toddlers CLOSED— K-6 All Day Contracts ONLY

March 8-11 Spring Break

K-6 All Day Contracts ONLY

March 28 Summer School Forms

Become available to the public


Please note that while

we do allow for All Day

Contracts to attend

school during Spring

Break, on the first day

of break, Monday 3/7,

the Infant and Toddler

classrooms will be closed. Students in Primary-E2 will be

the only All Day Contracts permitted to be in school on

that day. The Infant and Toddler program will re-open for

the rest of the week to it’s All-Day Contract students on

Conscious and Connected Parenting

Registration begins for the next course in March

Four weeks Course

$197 per person

Email [email protected] with your interest

It is a long day of work. There is no food in the house. You pick the kids up from circle and you

know they are wired, tired and hungry. You don’t want to, but you have to stop at the grocery

store for something to eat. Two aisles in and your six year old does not get what he wants and he

hits his older brother. The older brother begins to cry. You only want to get through the check out

and get home, so you hurry them along, offer a cracker, hoping it is not going to get worse. But

no, especially when you are in a hurry, your oldest son, is surely going to let all of his stress out

from the day and either melt on the floor or attack his little brother! What is a parent to do?

Empathy is the skill to handle all of the triggers and the tantrums!

When your kids are upset they are experiencing very strong emotions. We all have very strong

emotions and unless we model and teach to our children how to handle them with intelligence,

we just keep repeating the same patterns from the past. So many of us have been taught to ig-

nore, deny, bury strong emotions, but they are our guide and our catalyst and we must model to

our children how to handle them.

“Keep breathing, I am safe, I can handle this.” Repeat this to yourself and then say it out loud to

your child. “Keep breathing, you are safe, you can handle this.”

Then say what you see:

“Your teeth are clenched and your eyes are smooshed up, you seem frustrated.”

“Your arms are going like this and your feet are doing this, you seem real angry.”

“Your head is down, and your hands are covering your eyes, you seem sad.”

By describing exactly what you see your child’s body doing offers your child self awareness. Self

awareness is developing their frontal lobes and they will feel seen and heard. There is no need to

happy-up your child. Let them be with their strong emotions, while you stay calm, composed, and

conscious to what is happening in the moment.

You can handle it and your child can handle it. This too shall pass, there is no need to fix it, ignore

it, or deny it. It is what it is. And later in life when they are dealing with a major disappointment, a

broken heart, or the death of a friend, they will remember that they can handle it.

Micheline Green

School Counselor

Integral Master Coach


Mad Men Fixed-Bid Event Hosted in Style

Last month, Tommy and Shan-

non Smith and Matt and Karin

Burbach hosted the annual

fixed bid 2015 auction event at

their home recently. The auc-

tion raised about $3000 —just

through ticket sales for this

event last year! The "Mad

Men" theme was a big hit - the

outfits were awesome and fun

was had by all!

Thank you to all who attended

the dinner (1960s style with

meatloaf, mashed potatoes

and deviled eggs) to support

Villa. What a fun night!


Support our Villa Community

In keeping with the community spirit of the “Villa Family,” we would like to help support those Villa

families that own or operate businesses. If you own or operate a business and would like your business

listed, AND have a child at Villa, please contact Barbi Smith at [email protected].

We will list the name of the business, phone number, Web site, and your name.


ADVERTISEMENTS:

Advertising in the Villa Voice is available to Villa parents as a way to support our community and celebrate each

other’s successes. If you are interested in placing an Ad, the cost is $25 per newsletter, or $50 a month for a half-

page spread, with two newsletters being published each month. We email this newsletter to all parents and also

post it to our Web site www.villamontessori.com. To begin the process, please contact Barbi Smith at

[email protected].

Disclaimer:

All information contained in any classified Ad is the sole responsibility of the individual advertiser. Villa Mon-

tessori is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of said information. Villa reserves the right to review

each Ad submitted, and to reject or discontinue, revise, and/or reclassify any Ad at any time for any reason.

Individual advertiser is responsible for all proofreading and verifying of all information of the Ad.

It takes a VILLAge!

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Home Smart Elite—Residential Specialist 480-201-7466 uniquephoenixhomes.com Danielle O’Connell

Rodan and Fields Skincare, Consultant 602-549-0711 mscolville.myrandf.com Melanie S. Colville

Bartholomew Graphics 602-434-5341 Bartholomewgraphics.com Lisa Bartholomew

On The Spot Waxing 602-525-3234 waxingaroundtown.com Cody Davenport

Bikram Yoga AZ 602-HOT-YOGA bikramyogaaz.com Todd Deacon

COST IS ONLY $25 PER AD! HALF-PAGE AD’S DUE ONE WEEK PRIOR TO PUBLISHIING!


My name is Mark V. Haley D.D.S. I am a Villa Montessori Dad and a general dentist at the 27th

Ave. and

Bethany Home Rd. branch of Desert Dentistry. Desert Dentistry is a family owned group of five

offices around the valley and in Payson. I have been in practice for over twenty five years. I am very

proud of our office and wonderful staff.

I would like to personally invite you and your family to tour our facility and meet the staff. My philosophy

in Dentistry has always been to offer treatment options that achieve the best outcomes for our patients’

individual circumstances. We also have incentive programs for referrals! We look forward to helping you

and your family with your continued Dental Health!

Mark V. Haley D.D.S.

6226 N. 27th Ave. #C

Phoenix, AZ 85017

Office: 602-242-0060

[email protected]


Because vision development occurs from birth to age 6, it is now extremely im-portant for children to have their initial eye exams at age six months or ½

years old by a qualified optometrist (www.infantsee.org).

Understanding that this is not common knowledge for most parents, Healthy Eye Care is proud to offer the first initial eye exams in our state of the art facility for any child under 1 years old as a complementary public service, and any child

ages 1-6 for $50 (dilation included, normally $150).

If you know that your child is overdue for this initial health evaluation by an optometrist please call us at 480-887-8778.

*Please Understand: if your child can see, this does not mean they are not

straining to do so. This can only be determined by a qualified Optometrist.

www.myfiteyes.com

First Time Customers Receive $10 off Initial Order!

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