Giving
With growing pressure to “do more with less,” many schools and communities are cutting programs that are deemed “not essential”. Reduced budgets and less than ideal economic conditions can mean that schools don’t have funds to provide students with extracurricular experiences and activities that broaden thinking and unlock learning opportunities. Often, this means that many childhood experiences will be lost as well. Field trips to see and experience things outside of the classroom, to attend a first play or concert, to stand for the first time inside a museum, would be lost without fundraising programs. Programs such as music, theater and visual arts are often the first curriculum cuts made.
While fundraising helps to pay for extracurricular experiences and activities, there is an additional benefit beyond the obvious – it is a way to engage children in civic-minded activities at a young age. It creates an awareness that they are part of a larger community. When raising funds for other segments of society, children learn to appreciate what they have and to understand that they have the ability, even from a young age, to help others. Be sure to talk to your children about how your participation in the our fundraising programs helps our school, our global community and the environment.
The following programs provide our Casa Montessori families with easy and painless fundraising opportunities that will benefit our students and school. Thank you for supporting our fundraisers!
