Good Evening, Bryant Families,

Here are the messages from Bryant for this week.

Calendar items

• Monday, 12/1: Children’s House field trip to the Pt. Defiance Zoo. See teacher communications. The bus departs Bryant at 9:30AM, with an estimated return of 2:00PM. Please have your students dress for walking - and the weather.
• Tuesday, 12/2: Picture re-take day for retakes, new students, and students who were absent on picture day. Students wanting retakes will need to bring their picture packet. Any questions go to mylifetouch.com, ID: EVTKJ839T (see attachment): Lifetouch Retakes 12-2-25.pdf .
• Thursday, 12/4: Lower Elementary field trip to Pantages for a performance of “The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System.” Tickets can be purchased by selecting MySchoolBucks from the Parent Vue application and going to the product section. If you’d like to also sponsor a student, choose the Field Trip donation product – tickets are $7.00 each.  Thank you.
• Friday, 12/5: No school for students in elementary or Bryant’s Middle School.
• No school for ECEAP: Wed.-Fri.
• Spirit week. Dec. 1-4. Pending ASB approval.
  • M: Monochrome
  • T: Time travel/decade day
  • W: Character
  • Th: pajama day – shoes appropriate for PE and recess, no stuffies and blankets. NOT for Lower El because of field trip!
  • F: no school

Clothes for Health Room, please! Our health room needs clean, lightly used clothing - specifically sweatpants/leggings and t-shirts/sweatshirts that would fit 1^st-3^rd grade students. Also, a reminder to have your students keep a change of clothes in their cubby or backpack.

PTO News

Bryant Food Drive

Maria Montessori believed in “caring for each other” through a combination of respectful interaction, purposeful work that benefits the community, and the inherent ability of older children to mentor younger ones. Last week, middle school students combined 1500 pounds of produce/turkey, 535 cans/boxes of non-perishables, and gorgeous bundles of fresh herbs with custom art, pies, butter, whipped cream, dinner rolls, and sparkling cider to provide food kits for 42 families in our community. Deepest gratitude to our families, students, admin, teachers, staff, Garden Team, BNC, TCF Architecture, Infinite Soups, Proctor Braces, Franz Bakery, and Feed253 who joined forces in this purposeful work that benefited our community. 

Speaking of food

Recipe Book! The Bryant Montessori PTO has an exciting community-building project in the works - a cookbook! The book will be available for purchase by mid-December.

Winterfest

The Bryant PTO and the BNC will be hosting a Winterfest on Dec 13^th at the BNC at 3-6 PM. We will be creating ornaments - Gnomes, Mason Jar Cookie mix, Candle wreaths, Letters to Santa Gift Tags Candle Decorating, Holiday Tree Artwork, and a toy swap Bring a gently used toys to swap. Honey and cookies will be available for a donation.

We do need volunteers for set up craft assist and toy swap. If you can, please sign up here Winterfest signup

Never too late

If you are looking for a Bryant Hoodie, ASB has them, all sizes just follow the link to pay for it in My school bucks, Link   Bryant hoodie

That’s all for tonight! Good night!

Neil O’Brien, Principal

Bryant Montessori School

Tacoma Public Schools

253-571-2800