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Awards and Accomplishments
To enrich the classroom
experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage
generosity, and strengthen community ties,
Mt.
Clemens
Montessori
Academy
students participated in several meaningful
community service projects throughout the 2010-2011
school year. There were school-wide projects,
classroom initiatives, and Student Council
activities that reached out to our community this
year.
The Student
Council at MTCMA was developed to give students the
opportunity to learn responsibility, engage in
leadership, show compassion, and develop
sensitivity. Students in first through fifth grade
are nominated by their peers to represent them. A
total of twenty-four (24) students composed the
Student Council team this year. This year, Student
Council members visited children in the pediatric
wing at
Mt.
Clemens
Regional
Medical
Center
, visited a retirement home, gave holiday gifts to
families less fortunate.
A year long project involving all staff and student
raised $1400.00 for
Multiple Sclerosis patients and research.
At our annual
Mt. Clemens Montessori St. Jude
’s Hospital Math-A-Thon, our students raised
$2,000.00; totaling over $50,000 since 1996.
Our students also participated in “Jump
Rope for Heart” ($1,707.00) and Humane Society
($800.00). Yearly,
we erect a “Mitten
Tree” which children/families donate hats,
mitten, and scarves for children without such
luxuries in our community. Also, in line with the
MTCMA community spirit, some individual students and
small groups found their own way to make a
difference this year. Several classrooms wrote to
our soldiers in
Iraq
and sent parcels along with words of gratitude and
encouragement. Student volunteers in the various
Scout Troops wrote letters or raised their own funds
to donate to various organizations. Just as our
community has benefited this year from the kindness
and generosity of MTCMA students, families, and
staff have also benefited from the kindness and
generosity of others this year.
|
Community
Involvement and Activities |
| PSt. Jude's Math-A-Thon |
PMitten Tree |
| PJump Rope for Heart |
PAdoption of Local Family for
Holidays |
| PMichigan
Humane Society |
PCareer
Day |
| PCards sent to Local Hospital and
Veterans |
PFood Drives for Local Shelters |
| PStudent Council |
PSafety Squad |
| PBlue
Cross Blue Shield Building Healthy Communities
Participant |
PMuscular Dystrophy and American
Cancer Society Fundraisers |
| PD.A.R.E Education |
PRed,
White, and Blue Community Veterans Concert |
Mt. Clemens
Montessori Academy believes that teaching children
to give back to the community and to become leaders of their generation is essential
to producing citizens that will benefit any
community in which they may live. St. Jude's Math-A-Thon recognized Mt. Clemens
Montessori children as one of the top submitters of
correct math problems and monies pledged to this
worthwhile cause.
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