Get a head start on spring cleaning, and start Marie Kondo-ing your bookshelves!

The Cadette Girl Scouts are working on their Silver Award, one of the highest awards in Girl Scouting. These young ladies are working with the Rancho Motel, a homeless shelter in Springfield, to help gather books for the unsheltered population in our community.

The Girl Scouts will be collecting new and gently used books (adult and children's titles) in the lobby from Monday, January 31st through Friday, February 11th. Support literacy, philanthropy, and leadership in young women by supporting our Scouts today!

P.S. Don't forget it's Cookie Season!

Questions? Contact the Front Desk.

All Summit parents/guardians are invited to the next Summit Parent Organization (SPO) meeting TOMORROW, January 27th at 9:00 a.m. at The Summit.

We will be welcoming special guests, Anne Tegerdine and Monica Guerrant, with AnnaBelle Events to learn more about the 2022 Gala, themed Black and White by Candlelight!

This SPO meeting will be VIRTUAL. Please contact Amy Maas for a copy of the agenda and a Zoom link prior to the meeting time.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 is the Global School Day of Play! The Summit will join thousands of schools all over the globe by participating in a day dedicated to unstructured, screen-free play for all students. At The Summit, we celebrate learning on a daily basis, but we are excited to help spread the word that play is more than just fun.  

Students may wear their Summit uniform or dress out in Spirit Wear and jeans at no charge.  

Want to learn more about the importance of play? Check out these great resources:

Do you have a teen driver or soon to be teen driver? Check out the First Impact program and their virtual parent education series. 

First Impact, offered by ThinkFirst Missouri (University of Missouri’s School of Medicine), is a traffic safety program that educates parents about Missouri’s Graduated Driver License (GDL) law and provides tools parents need to monitor, coach, and support their new teen driver. 

Our goal each year is to allow every teacher to attend the event and share in the fun at no cost. Please consider sponsoring a teacher table at either the Gold or Silver Sponsorship Levels.

The Gold Teacher Sponsorship at $2,500 will allow 8 of our excellent teachers to attend the Gala, plus you’ll receive a full page ad in the event program and recognition on both the Gala and auction websites.

The Silver Teacher Sponsorship at $1,000 will allow 4 of our teachers a ticket to the Gala, plus you’ll receive special recognition in the event program.

Individual teachers tickets are also available!

To sponsor teacher tickets, please contact the Gala Event Coordinators at gala@thesummitprep.org.

If you have ever met a Kindergartener, you know they have no shortage of stories to share! Students have been working hard to break down their stories into sentences, count the words, and then s-t-r-e-t-ch out the sounds, which they then associate to the symbols (letters) to create written works. This is an impressive feat when you think about the cognitive processes at play! In fact, many students are becoming quite adept at this process.

Other important concepts of print being mastered include left-to-right directionality, beginning conventions such as punctuation and capitalization, letter placement, and spacing. Right now, students are writing “All About Me” books, and they are excited to share their stories with you!

First graders have spent the last month learning all about Native Americans! As part of their unit, students are working with a partner to research a Native American tribe. They’re learning research skills and becoming better writers by practicing nonfiction writing.

Students are currently gathering information about where their selected tribe lived, what they ate, and what their homes, clothes, and art looked like. After completing their research, students will create a poster with their partner to present the information they learned to their peers. They will then design and create an artifact to represent their tribe’s history. 

Third grade is also studying Native Americans as part of their unit on Early Missourians. Students will be studying the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian Native American cultures. Students are excited to go on a “virtual” field trip of the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, near St. Louis. Learn more about the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society's Augmented Reality Project to help bring the City of the Sun back to life, digitally!

The Summit's accrediting body, The Independent School Association of the Central States (ISACS), is offering a five-part parent education webinar series in Spring 2022.

We hope you consider joining other independent school parents for any of the five evening sessions led by a variety of experts to help you support your children socially, emotionally, educationally, and developmentally as we all continue to learn and grow. Please use the link below to register for the live webinars, which will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Central time.

To accommodate busy schedules, recordings of the webinars will be available until June 30, 2022. Be sure to check the Raven Report each week for instructions on accessing the webinar recordings after the live presentation date!