Who’s Coming?

By now your Special People should have received their invitations. If you can, please try to limit your visitors to no more than four per child (our classrooms are big, but it still gets crowded in there!) Parents should not attend Special Persons’ Day unless you have signed up to volunteer or if no Special People are coming to visit your child. In that case you are the Special Person for the day. If neither you nor anyone else can visit your child, please call the school at (202) 387-2700 immediately to let us know. Every child should have a visitor!

Arriving

Please drop off your children at the same time you normally arrive. If you arrive after 9:00am, please park and walk your children to class. Please DON’T park in front of the School! Your best bet is to drop off your Special People along with your children in the morning. The lane in front of the School will be available all morning for curbside drop-off of Special People. Greeters will be on hand to direct them to the Church auditorium. There is an elevator in the Church for those who have trouble with stairs. If you want to park, look for spaces on 27th, 28th, 29th, Garfield or Cathedral or you can go to the Marriott Wardman Hotel. Parking there is $11/hour, or $23/day.

Checking In and Visiting

In the Church there will be a table (staffed by parent volunteers) with an envelope for
each family.
It will contain 4 photo buttons, a Program and an assignment to either Group A or Group B.
We split the Special People into 2 groups to avoid overcrowding in the classrooms.
After a slide show about Montessori education, Group A will visit classrooms for 30 minutes, then return to the Church so Group B can go over. There will be coffee, and light refreshments as well as displays and a video of the Elementary Musical for people to watch while they are waiting in the Church.
At 11:30 all Special People will gather in the Church for a performance by the Elementary classes.
Toddlers have a special schedule. Visitors meet them in the playground at 10:30. Together they can visit the classroom and leave, or come over to watch the Elementary performance.

Leaving

• Toddlers leave with their Special People anytime between 10:45 and 11:15.
• Primary students will stay in School during the performance at the Church, and should be picked up from the steps and the playground from 11:45-12:15 at their normal dismissal times.
• Elementary students leave the Church with their Special People after the performance.
If your visitor has limited mobility, please have them wait in front of the school and come through the pick-up line to get them.
Please remember that all children must be picked up by 12:15. There is no afternoon class or ASP on
Special Persons’ Day.

Volunteers

We need parents to be greeters, help with check in, monitor the refreshments and guide people to the correct classrooms. Please contact Dawn Leijon ( 202-237-1292, dleijon@yahoo.com) if you can work one of these shifts:
8:00am - 9:00am: set up, greet
9:00am - 10:00am: check in, greet, guide, monitor refreshments (most volunteers needed now)
10:00am - 11:00am: greet, guide, monitor refreshments
11:00am - 12:00am: guide, clean up

The Schedule

8:30-9:15 Special People gather in the Church auditorium for coffee, fruit & muffins,
displays and video.
9:15-9:45 Welcome by Kathy Minardi and Montessori Slide Show.
9:45-10:00 Group A goes to School, Group B remains in Church.
10:00-10:30 Group A visits classrooms.
10:30-10:45 Group A visitors return to Church, Group B visitors go to School.
10:30-11:15 Toddler visitors join their children on the playground. Toddlers may show the visitors their classroom. Toddlers and Special People may leave school after visiting, or go to the Church for the Elementary performance.
10:45-11:15 Group B visits classrooms.
11:15-11:30 Group B returns to the Church. Primary students remain at School.
11:30-11:45 Performance by the Elementary Students and closing remarks by Kathy Minardi.
11:45-12:00 Dismissal of Elementary Students and their visitors from the Church.
11:45-12:15 Dismissal of Primary classes at their usual times from steps and playground.

Tell Your Visitors

Please share the information in this flier with your Special People. If you want to give them the flier, there are more copies in the lobby, and it will be posted on our website, www.aidanschool.org, password ‘aidan.’