Heifer Project: Change for Change, 2012

Watch the herd grow!

Every year since 1998, our school has participated in The Heifer Project. That first year, one classroom collected donations enough to buy a flock of ducks and a hive of bees. Since then, the effort has been school-wide and WSMS has provided funding for the beginnings of many flocks and herds. The last two years, our Heifer fundraising has been set aside to aid victims of both the Haitian and Japanese earthquakes. This year, we return to Heifer.

For those of you who are not familiar with he Heifer Project,  Heifer International works to promote peace through ending world hunger. For over 65 years, Heifer has helped more than 8.5 million impoverished families in 128 countries lift themselves out of poverty and achieve self-reliance. Maria Montessori was passionate about a global vision, self-reliance, and peace. Heifer is a perfect philosophical fit.

The idea is simple and it works.  Instead of providing hungry families with a non-renewable source of food, Heifer International provides a “living loan “ of an animal.  The family’s health and standard of living is greatly improved by what that animal can provide.  This might be milk from a cow or goat, eggs from poultry, meat from rabbits, draft power from water buffalo, or wool from Ilamas. Heifer also provides trees that reforest farms and provide fodder and firewood.

Key to success of the program is that Heifer provides extensive training in animal care, ecologically sound agricultural practices and community development.  The result is to transform not just families, but the environment and community.

Another cornerstone of Heifer International is “passing on the gift.”  Families who receive an animal repay the loan by passing on one or more of the animals’ offspring to other needy families.  That family passes on their gift to another family and so on, one gift multiplying through the community.

For more information about the organization, please visit:
https://secure1.heifer.org/gift-catalog?msource=kwga5&gclid=CLbz_PbH660CFWQ0QgodPHnx5Q

Beginning Monday, January 30th, for one week every classroom will be collecting change (and folding money, too!). Each classroom will add to the Heifer Herd in the entry hallway as they receive donations.  Please help our herd grow, and give your children the opportunity to make a change in their world.

MAKE-UP Hot Dog Friday, February 3

We will be having a MAKE-UP Hot Dog Friday the first Friday in
February (Friday, February 3) for those children who signed up for Hot
Dog Friday on January 20 (Snow Day).

If your child was not signed up for January 20, but you would like to
sign her/him up for a hot dog lunch on February 3, please contact the
Main Office at 206-935-0427.

A field trip form for this Thursdays field trip is coming home today.

We would like them back signed off tomorrow.

We also need two parent volunteers who can meet us at Wing Luke museum at 12:00.

If you are able to meet us please let us know ASAP.

Hot Dog Fridays have begun to help support various causes at West Seattle Montessori School & West Seattle Academy. In January, all proceeds will help support our eighth grade students going to Washington DC in March!

Hot Dog Fridays have begun to help support various causes at West Seattle Montessori School & West Seattle Academy. In January, all proceeds will help support our eighth grade students going to Washington DC in March!

Hot Dog Fridays have begun to help support various causes at West Seattle Montessori School & West Seattle Academy. In January, all proceeds will help support our eighth grade students going to Washington DC in March!

Hot Dog Fridays have begun to help support various causes at West Seattle Montessori School & West Seattle Academy. In January, all proceeds will help support our eighth grade students going to Washington DC in March!

Join us for WSMS & WSA’s Annual Musical Production…..

This Year we are presenting:  Once Upon a Mattress

“They saw at once that she must be a real princess when she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.”

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy and was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea.

Thursday, February 9th @ 7pm

Friday, February 10th @ 7pm

Performances are at the Chief Sealth High School Theater

(2600 SW Thistle Street)

Ticket Prices: $6.00 per student and $10.00 per adult

Join us for WSMS & WSA’s Annual Musical Production…..

This Year we are presenting:  Once Upon a Mattress

“They saw at once that she must be a real princess when she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.”

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy and was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea.

Thursday, February 9th @ 7pm

Friday, February 10th @ 7pm

Performances are at the Chief Sealth High School Theater

(2600 SW Thistle Street)

Ticket Prices: $6.00 per student and $10.00 per adult