Events for the month of December:
5th Picture retakes
6th Parents Night Out at the Duce
9th FN Volleyball Stars vs. Shaw at Herrera, 5:30
12th Bullying Presentations by NotMyKid for our 5th-8th grade students
12th FN Volleyball Stars vs. Herrera at Herrera, 4:45
13th Classroom spelling bees
13th Fall afterschool classes end
13th FN middle school students present "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in the multi-use room at FN, 6:30
17th FN Volleyball Stars vs. Emerson, 6:15 at Herrera
17th FN Tax Credit Concert, Kindergarten-3rd grade, 6:00 FN multi-use room
18th FN practice spelling bee, 9:00, FN multi-use room
19th FN Tax Credit Concert, 4th-8th grade, 6:00 FN multi-use room
20th FN whole school spelling bee, 1:00 FN multi-use room
December 23rd-January 6th Winter Break, no school
“Peace is what every human being is craving for; it can be brought about by humanity through the child.” Maria Montessori
Dear Faith North Community,
As we move through the season of light and celebrations, I am thinking a lot about peace and what that means to us, to our children and to our school community.
Dr. Montessori was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. She spoke about issues of war and peace, her life’s work, the education of children and its potential impact on world history.
She believed that the way we educate children affects who they become. It affects who they are as people, how they treat others, what their relationship is to society, and the sense of responsibility they feel toward others, to the future, and to the earth. She predicted that these "new children," educated in a new way, could change the world.
Montessori calls us to respect the inner life of the child and as adults, to aid the emergence of the child’s personality. “To do so is to allow the true self of the child, of the adult-in-the-making, to unfold with dreams and vision intact.” When we do this, we save the child from the experience of forced adaptation to the will of an adult, an experience that teaches that the big guy wins and that peace is built around submission and resentment rather than mutual triumph and glory.
How are you bringing peace into your life, into the life of your family, into the lives of your children, into the life of Faith North?
Wishing you beautiful celebrations filled with peace this holiday season.
Susan Engdall
