May School “Hoot”

Week of December 16, 2024

Upcoming Events

Winter Break | Monday, December 23–Monday, January 6 (School and Administrative Offices closed)

Classes Resume | Tuesday, January 7 (school back in session)

Coffee Chats feat. Ms. Topa | Wednesday, January 8, 8:30–9:30 am

Learn more about the different roles that make up May Center! This month, hear from Topa Augustine, May School Director. Hosted by the May Families Committee.

Sequential English Education (SEE) Night | Tuesday, January 14, 5:30–7:00 pm

Transition Night (Intermediate) | Tuesday, January 14, 5:30–7:00 pm

May Families Committee Meeting | Wednesday, January 15, 8:30–9:30 am

MLK Day | Monday, January 20 (School and Administrative Offices closed)

The Right to Read Film & Forum (Albuquerque) | Saturday, January 18, 1:00–3:00 pm

Proceeds benefit May Center students. Get tickets today!

Book Chats with Ms. Carol | Thursday, January 23, 5:00–6:30 pm

Join us for our next book chat, this month featuring The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson. Please RSVP to Ms. Carol at carol@maycenter.org and indicate if you will need childcare. Light refreshments will be served.

The Right to Read Film & Forum (Santa Fe) | Saturday, January 25, 1:00–3:00 pm

Proceeds benefit May Center students. Get tickets today!

Owls in the Wild

Our community bulletin board is ready to go up! Please email topa@maycenter.org or send in flyers with your child to let us know what events they’re participating in around the community!

Owl Vision

Reading: This week in Jack’s Reading Room, students from Ms. Connie, Ms. Clementine, and Ms. Caitlin’s classes read “The Night Before Christmas” and colored different holiday-themed coloring sheets.

Ms. Lisa’s class continued their novel study of Because of Wynn Dixie and played a vocabulary game using words from the novel.

Ms. Jennifer, Ms. Nia, and Ms. Corrie’s students continued working on their readers’ theater performance of A Christmas Carol. At Friday assembly, they’ll perform their readers’ theater for each other and enjoy a Dickens-themed holiday party!

Art: This week with Ms. Brenda, the students continued working on their fairy houses and made cardboard roll holiday characters.

Science: This week, students combined science with gift giving! They made bath bombs using baking soda, citric acid, cornstarch, coconut oil, and food coloring, with a choice of peppermint or lavender essential oil.

If you happen to receive this gift… It’s safe for the bath, but some kids may have used more food coloring than others, so be warned!

Some of the classes were also given a STEM engineering challenge dubbed Special Delivery Toy Drop, where they had to make parachutes to deliver “toys” while trying to land them safely and slowly onto the target.