CMEC Gear Coming!

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**UPDATE** Online ordering is now available! Click here to make your CMEC Spirit Wear purchase. Columbus Montessori Families! Now is the time to order your 2012-2013 CMEC gear. This year we’ve made it easy to order! Just fill out the order form located in your child’s cubby and give to Alana at the front desk. [...]

Columbus Montessori Education Celebrates NAEYC “Week of the Young Child”

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Columbus Montessori Education Center joined the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) this week in celebrating the association’s “Week of the Young Child.” Throughout the week, CMEC focused on the NAEYC sub-theme “Play: Where Learning Begins” with a variety of fun days designed to rally school spirit. Mismatch Monday, Totally 80’s Tuesday, [...]

Safety at Columbus Montessori Education Center

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Sign up for Friday Notes here to stay up -to-date on the latest information from CMEC. As we all work through the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, I wanted to respond to recent reports in the media listing Columbus Montessori as not having a Safety plan on file with [...]

Columbus Montessori Seeks Development Administrator

Columbus Montessori Education Center has a position open! We are looking for a development administrator to join the CMEC community. If you or someone you know fits the description below and would love to help CMEC continue its education mission please send your resume and cover letter to Lenn Turner at lturner@columbusmontessori.org. Title of Position: [...]

Renovating the Columbus Montessori Education Center Library

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Karen Reeb is a Columbus Montessori parent with resources. Reading resources and she’s using them and her time to create the best environment for literacy at Columbus Montessori for the students. Reeb and volunteers are overhauling the CMEC library to make the shared resources located in the school library more accessible to the students and [...]

Columbus Montessori Education Center Foster Grandparent Volunteer Honored

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On Wednesday September 19, Columbus Montessori volunteer Ninel “Ms. Nellie” Sher was honored with an Outstanding Service Award by the HandsOn Foster Grandparents Program. She has been a Foster Grandparent for four years and serves in the Jessica Kass Infant/Toddler program. “..every morning the children await Ms. Nellie’s arrival! When she comes in with her [...]

The 2012 Spring Faculty Appreciation Luncheon-Total success!

If you ever want to *feel* what true family feels like, show up at a Columbus Montessori faculty appreciation day luncheon.  Our first year at Columbus Montessori, I stepped back and watched my little boy flourish.  I volunteered, but my time was very limited.  I remember when November arrived, someone asked if I would help [...]

Columbus Montessori’s new lobby calendar!

Have you stopped by the front lobby lately?  If not, please come take a look at our newest creation!  We have a magnetic AND chalkboard calendar!  We will put all major school events on the calendar on the first of every month.  We want to thank Steve, our facilities manager, for his fabulous help in [...]