The Mays School

Welcome to September, MAYS families! We made it through the hottest month! Thank you to everyone for sticking with us through our recent Executive Board changes, and we hope to see you all at the first General PTO Meeting of the year on Wednesday, September 16th from 8:30-9:30am in the MAYS library. We will be voting on a slate of officers as well as the annual budget. We also will be kicking off our PTO committees! If you can't make it but want to chat, please email us at he

Hi, MAYS families! We hope you enjoyed the first week of school as much as we did! I personally had some very tired kiddos last weekend, but it sounds like friends were made and trees were climbed. So, all in all, a great success! Unfortunately, the PTO had a setback during this first week: Callye Emmons--our fearless PTO leader for the last 18 months--made the difficult decision to step down from her role as President. She was instrumental in starting the MAYS PTO, and she i

PTO President's Message Callye Emmons MAYS PTO President Greetings! On behalf of the MAYS PTO, I would like to welcome you to the 2026-2027 school year and introduce our new PTO Monthly Newsletter. The Executive Board has been hard at work this summer, and we have some exciting updates to share for year two. But first, we encourage you to confirm your PTO Membership using the Membership Form, and we invite you to join us for our first General PTO Meeting on Friday, Augu

Communication We communicate with families in a variety of ways. Always feel free to ask questions! Tadpoles: This app is extremely important at MAYS! This is the way teachers communicate with parents throughout the day, along with notes, reminders, pictures, medication updates, documenting small injuries, daily reports, event information, and more. Tadpoles is our primary communication system. Procare: We use Procare to process tuition, organize medical information, and

I’m sure a better writer has written a blog about this, but let’s talk about TV and screen time for children! I’ll be completely open: we should avoid screentime for children when possible… but I also have three children of my own, work full time, serve on several organizational boards, and still have to make dinner every night (come on kids, why do you need to eat every day?). So, if you are traveling long distances, taking a flight, or simply need to care for your own menta

I recently read a blog that talked about the flamingo stage of parenting. Did you know that when flamingos raise their young, they lose their pink color? Don’t worry--it’s only temporary. It’s because they spend so much of their time caring for, watching over, protecting, and finding food for their young, that they run out of time in the day to nourish themselves. Flamingos get their beautiful pink color from the pink fish that they eat each day. This really stuck with me. Pa

Some days are meant for thinking—and for me, that day is today (so buckle up). I have a lot of big opinions when it comes to American education—public, private, all of it. And I have a habit of oversharing those opinions, so consider this your friendly warning. But truly, I think we’ve spent far too long as a country trying to force an outdated educational system to keep working. Who is it really serving? Not the children. Not the parents. Not the teachers. So why are we cont

Spring has officially sprung, and so have our butterflies! Over 36 caterpillars are emerging from their chrysalises this week, just in...

Why is finding a child’s lunchbox so difficult?! I’ve seen all types of lunchboxes brought through our school, as well as gone through...

10 years ago, my family and I started this school to explore a nature-based curriculum for preschool students—a rarity in the city at the...

Feeding little ones is such an exciting and fun experience, but it can also lead to stress and worry for parents and caregivers,...

Why is non-traditional schooling not standard in the United States, while many other countries embraced this movement long ago? This is a...

Homemade finger paints are a great way to encourage self-help skills and spend some creative time with the kids! Here’s a quick and easy...

The school’s new pet is a hedgehog named Quill! He took up residence in the Laurel classroom this winter. Quill joins a diverse family of...

Snow Cone Social Hope to see you at the Snow Cone Social! The event will take place on March 23rd from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Evergreen...

The MAYS School Parent Advisory Board is a group of parents who help by representing our different age groups, solve school-wide issues,...

Tuesday 2/5 – Lunar New Year Celebrations Thursday 2/7 – Pre-K field trip to Houston Children’s Museum Thursday 2/14 – Valentine’s Day...

Have you read the Curriculum Corner newsletter that goes out at the beginning of each month? Be sure to take a look—there’s lots of...

Not only are play-dough and bubbles an inexpensive and wonderful way to encourage many areas of development and learning for younger...

Loris Malaguzzi, the founder of Reggio Emilia's educational philosophy, considered the learning environment to be the “third” teacher,...