Soldotna Montessori Charter

Students who walk home will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. Friday, and the buses will depart school at 1:55 p.m.

Mrs. Larned's class continues its study of Antarctica and reports are due by the end of this week.

Each first- through third-grader has been presenting mini lessons about the human skeleton to students in Mrs. Overturf's kindergarten class, and they also will present to Mrs. McCabe's class.

March is Youth Art Month, and students are creating an art project using their choice of water color, tempera paint, construction paper, pencil or ink.

The staff and students congratulate Sheryl Sotelo for being chosen the Outstanding Science Teacher of the Nation by the Shell Oil Company. Her class will begin selling lasagna to raise funds for a class field trip to Otter Cove at the end of the school year. Students will spend three days and two nights at the Kachemak Bay Learning Center studying oceanography and marine biology. Orders are due in by March 26. Pick-up will be from 4 to 5 p.m. April 7.

Water bottles and headbands now are available for purchase by students between 12:35 and 12:55 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. The staff thanks Sheila Best and Carol Kincaid for donations of material and time in the making of the Mammoths headbands.

The lottery will be held March 27. Results will be posted at the school April 6.