Good Afternoon Families,
As we are approaching
October we have many upcoming events and exciting things happening in the
school.
Safety- The students did a terrific job with their
first fire drill. They will be practicing an evacuation drill and an upcoming
Alice drill in the month of October or early November. The Alice book and
protocol is posted on the district webpages and there is a link on the principal’s
blog for the resource book.
Curriculum-First and second grade teachers are continuing
with Fundations for early literacy skills. The students have completed their
first unit tests. Fundations is done every day for about 30 minutes. Fundations
helps with phonic skills, writing and formation of letters. All grade levels
are implementing reader’s workshop and students are involved in mini lessons
and sustained reading time. First and Third grade teachers who are in their
second year of implementation are working on conferring with students and the
text that they are reading. Envisions math is going strong. Students are on Unit
2 of the Envisions program. Teachers are utilizing the projectors for videos
and you will be receiving shortly the username and pass codes to log in to
Envisions for the online tools. This year teachers are piloting one large unit
per grade level on science during the year. In addition they will continue with
the science and technology standards for lessons and units of study. This year
we ordered National Geographic Magazines for all students so that they would
have access to more nonfiction materials. Lastly, students will have completed
their beginning of the year benchmarks within the next few weeks.
Technology-We now have 3 Chrome book carts in the building
for teachers to sign out and utilize with students. We also have 2 Tablet carts
for teachers to sign out. Many teachers utilize these to complete projects,
access google documents, take online math tests and much more. It is exciting
to see what the students continually accomplish with this technology. In
addition, we have a maker space cart that was awarded to our librarian through
the Wilmington Education Fundation spring grant. All students will have an
opportunity to experience this throughout the year. Lastly, teachers will go
over access to programs the district has continued to purchase such as Reading
Eggs and Study Island. These programs are helpful for additional supports at
home with early literacy and math skills.
PBIS-Our Positive Behavior and Intervention team has
met and we are well on our way to implementation of PBIS. We have created a
behavior matrix that was shared with the staff and the school council team last
year. Everything will revolve around focusing on the three R's (respect,
resilience and responsibility). We will be teaching and introducing the
students to these words at our first All School Meeting this Thursday. All
School Meeting is a time when the entire school gets together to share out and
talk about important messages. We will also be talking about Kindness Week. In
addition, we have purchased T-Shirts for all staff and students that have the
three R's on them and Shawsheen School. Thank you to the PAC for the first
grade purchase. We are hoping that this will be a great way to show unity for
our school and start wearing them on All School Meeting days. The shirts should
be in within a week or so.
Kindness Week- National
Stomp out Bullying Day is Monday,
October 2nd. We decided that we will have a kindness week where each day we
will involve students in different activities. On Monday, we are asking that all
students wear blue to show unity for stomping out bullying. For more information on this
here is the link http://stompoutbullying.org/.
Thank you to Lisa Gibbs our guidance counselor and Alena Krystofolski our
health teacher for putting these great ideas and activities into action.
Below are the week’s events.
Week’s Events
Monday
10/2
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Tuesday
10/3
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Wednesday
10/4
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Thursday
10/5
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Friday
10/6
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Students
and Staff wear blue to support Stomp Out Bullying
Special
Author will present at Assembly
www.ellasway.com
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Students
and staff wear Sneakers and go ask a friend to play!
Friendship
Squad at recess begins!
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Find
a new friend at lunch. Students will get an opportunity to make a
new friend!
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Free
Compliment Day -Take one and give one!
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Paper
Chain creation to illustrate bucket filling and everyone gets a sticker and
certificate.
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Please
see upcoming dates below
Date
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Event
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Thursday,
September 28, 2017
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All School Meeting for Students
and Staff
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Thursday,
September 28, 2017
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Shawsheen Open House
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Friday,
September 29, 2017
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Early Dismissal 12:00
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Monday,
October 02, 2017
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Stomp Out Bullying Week - Wear
Blue!
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Monday,
October 2nd
|
Ella's Way Assembly
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October
2 - 5, 2017
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Book Fair in the Library
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Monday,
October 9, 2017
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No School - Holiday
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Thursday,
October 19, 2017
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Grade 1 - Read for the Record
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Wednesday,
October 25, 2017
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Grade 3 Eyes on Owls Presentation
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Thursday,
November 02, 2017
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Shawsheen Picture Day
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Tuesday,
November 7, 2017
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Students No School - Teacher Prof.
Development Day
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Friday,
November 10, 2017
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No School - Holiday
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Monday,
November 20, 2017
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Grade 2 Field Trip to Plimoth
Plantation
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Wednesday,
November 22, 2017
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Early Dismissal 12:00
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Thursday,
November 23, 2017
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No School - Holiday
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Friday,
November 24, 2017
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No School - Holiday
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Thursday,
November 30, 2017
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Gr. 1 Starlab Enrichment Program
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Thank you all and have a great week,
Mrs. King
