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6 MIDWEEK JANUARY 4, 2023
Located in the heart of Honolulu, Montessori Community School provides its students with a pro- gressive and engaging learning environ- ment. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the school recently kicked off its 50 acts of community service initiative.
Marjie Carroll
“Projects may range from simple to complex, and from local to international,” explains Marjie Carroll, head of school. “Some of the acts might be a neighbor- hood cleanup, donation of books to a local public elementary school, a beach clean- up on a family outing or volunteering at a local animal shelter. Each classroom will be designing their own act of service, and we are encouraging families to act together to serve their neighbors, a distant global cause or the environment.”
This month, its sixth-grade graduating class will lead a food drive to support Ha- wai‘i Foodbank.
The school participated in the Genki
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Ala Wai Project in November, which was done in collaboration with other schools and community service organizations, to improve the health of the Ala Wai Canal. Each classroom joined in making more than 800 “genki balls,” which were made of a mixture of soil, rice bran, molasses and probiotic solution, and helped toss them into the Ala Wai Canal.
preschool and kindergarten classrooms recently painted ‘kindness rocks’ with messages of kindness and peace, which were gifted to the Hale Nani care home in our neighborhood.”
“Our students loved getting their hands dirty to make the balls, and participating in this service project,” Carroll notes.
“Our main goal is to help others,” states one sixth-grader, while another says, “it helps us learn how to lead an event and develop leadership skills.”
But the good deeds don’t stop there. Montessori Community School’s 50 acts of community service continue through April.
As a learning community of children and adults committed to a child-cen- tered education, Montessori Community School strives to instill the importance of service early on.
MCS,” Carroll says. “They found a lot of garbage, and learned that they can make a difference.’”
“Students from our early childhood program as young as 2 years old through the sixth grade are participating in acts of service,” Carroll shares. “One of our
“One of our lower elementary class- rooms recently held a Makiki park cleanup day, which is within walking distance of
To learn more about Montessori Com- munity School, visit montessorihawaii.org.
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