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Pancake Breakfast 2024

Pancake Breakfast 2024

Join us for this favorite community event hosted by our adolescent students at Hershey Montessori School’s 7th-12th grade Huntsburg campus.

Bring your family and friends to enjoy a delicious pancake breakfast with sausage and homemade maple syrup.

Proceeds support the Microeconomy, which is Hershey’s student-run business function that generates income to purchase supplies for the campus’s farm animals, gardens, and other related needs.

See the flyer for more details.

We look forward to seeing you!

Hershey Spanish Students Volunteer to Tutor at HOLA Math Workshop

Hershey Spanish Students Volunteer to Tutor at HOLA Math Workshop

HOLA Ohio and Painesville City Schools held a bilingual math workshop titled, “Counting on a Better Future” on Feb. 22, 2023.  Approximately 30 students signed up for the program, which was designed to use gameplay to build math skills for Painesville City elementary students. As part of the project, Hershey Montessori School’s Spanish students volunteered to serve as tutors. To prepare for this community service opportunity, they had to first participate in a tutor training session.

“¡Qué experiencia tan maravillosa para los estudiantes | What a wonderful experience for the students!” stated Brooks Cavin, Hershey Middle School Director.

The free tutor program consisted of eight weekly sessions from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for students in grades K-2 and for students in grades 3-5. At each session, HOLA’s chefs provided a free dinner made for all students, parents, families, volunteers, and staff. During the workshop, HOLA also provided a wrap-around component and met with parents to assess and provide services or resources to support any household needs.

“Part of my main goals with the [HOLA] community center was to create a culture of learning in the Hispanic community and improve educational outcomes,” said HOLA Ohio Executive Director Veronica Dahlberg.

Addressing the need for math skills, Painesville City Schools Director of Teaching and Learning Wendy Camper explained, “As much as we are all focused on literacy and improving literacy skills – we’ve really seen – since COVID – a massive decline in basic math skills, which is leading to significant challenges as the children move up [through the grades].”

Hershey students had fun while serving as volunteer tutors and helping the students with their math skills while playing the games. Math skills are rooted in gameplay and are a fun way to learn.  Some of the skills taught include: taking turns, strategizing, rotating, counting, logic, telling time, problem-solving, and developing fine motor skills.

During the event, HOLA also provided a wrap-around component and met with parents to assess and provide services or resources to support any household needs.

Hershey Montessori School looks forward to deepening its community connections with HOLA and the community service this relationship provides for its international and domestic students.

The Sweet Flow of Maple – from One Generation to the Next

The Sweet Flow of Maple – from One Generation to the Next

While the Hershey Montessori School’s 200-year-old sugarhouse was donated, dismantled, and reconstructed on the Huntsburg Campus in 2021, it wasn’t until this Spring 2023 that the sugarhouse would have its own maple syrup system.

Thanks to Martin Chabot, General Manager, and Jerad Sutton, Ohio Sales Representative, at CDL Sugaring Equipment, the students at the Huntsburg Campus, guided by HMS faculty Natalie Hudak, now have an 18” x 48” wood evaporator to learn the process, science, history, and fun of making their own maple syrup.     

Butternut Maple Farm, Sugar Pines Farm, GTP Plumbing, Valley Hardwoods, and numerous other volunteers also contributed equipment, labor, and expertise. These donors are multi-generational maple syrup producers here in Northeast Ohio. Their reason for donating is to pass along their knowledge, passion, joy, and respect for the earth that comes from making pure maple syrup.

Thanks to these generous maple syrup producers and their forefathers, our students today have an opportunity to nurture their connection to the earth and carry on the historic art of making maple syrup.

Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Visits Hershey

Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Visits Hershey

Hershey Montessori School would like to acknowledge and give gratitude to Mandy Orahood, Organization Director at Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, for coming out to visit the Hershey Montessori Huntsburg Campus.

Guided by Hershey Montessori School student tour guides, Brigid and Claire, Mandy was introduced to the agriculture-related microeconomies and learned how these tie to academics and entrepreneurism.

The Ohio Farm Bureau is focused on growing the next generation of farmers and producers in Ohio. Along with trusted organizations like The Ohio State University, FFA (Future Farmers of America), and 4-H, Farm Bureau helps to promote career pathways, agriculture literacy, and provide economic opportunity, networking opportunities, and leadership development for young farmers.

The HMS team included Brigid, Claire, HMS board member Jane Neubauer, HMS farm manager Joyce Cole, and Director of Development Yvonne Delgado Thomas.

Your Giving Tuesday Gift Can Be Matched

Your Giving Tuesday Gift Can Be Matched

 
Will you join us in providing an education for children in need? Our Giving Tuesday Scholarship Fundraiser has begun and we are requesting your help. Now through December 31, 2022, Facebook/Meta is willing to match recurring donations. Whether you donate $5 or $500, every little bit helps. One-time donations or appreciated, but by choosing to give a monthly gift, your gift can by doubled by Facebook/Meta.
 
Often, when we think of the lessons of grace and courtesy in the Montessori environment, we think of teaching and modeling socially acceptable behaviors and customs. Another aspect of grace and courtesy is the emphasis on learning to give back to the earth, humanity, and the community.
 
This Giving Tuesday, we ask our community of families, friends, alumni, and neighbors, to please consider a gift to support the education of a child. In today’s volatile world, families face many obstacles when making a choice about their children’s education. Your gracious gift today will provide financial aid to support a child of a family facing challenges in their lives. We are grateful for your grace and courtesy.
 
Give for the children; Give for the future; Give to our Giving Tuesday Fundraiser here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/803103160952224/ 
 
As a note, monthly donors will receive a notification directly from Facebook/Meta if their recurring donation has been matched. Donors must then send a screenshot of that notification to ythomas@hershey-montessori.org.