Thank you to all the families and students who contributed to the Joanne Benton WEF walk. We raised over 1000 dollars just for the school. I will keep parents posted on what we spend the funds on but we are looking toward adding more books to our classroom libraries! Thank you to the Tewksbury/Wilmington Elks for your grade 3 dictionary donations. The students will carry those with them through life and it is a much appreciated tradition. November is a busy month with the Thanksgiving Holiday. Next week we will be having our ALICE practice drill. The teachers will be discussing the ALICE book and practicing the drill. I will send out an email after the drill to let families know how it went. As you are aware, on the principal blog is information on the ALICE protocol and the book that staff utilize to go over with the students. Also, this month teachers are finishing up some benchmark assessments in reading and continuing on pace with envisions math topics.
We are continuing on with our PBIS vision of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We had another successful all school meeting where we discussed what respect looks like. We had some amazing examples of student work that was presented. The students all wore there Shawsheen T-shirt and participating in showing respect! We will have another all school meeting toward the end of November to discuss Responsibility.
Lastly, we are still collecting books for the Shawsheen Tree for Festival of Trees. Students are contributing with the them of Fill Your Bucket. We will have buckets under the tree filled with books. If you donate a book, please have you, your family or child write a message in it. The tree will have a chain of kindness that the students had created during kindness week.
Below are some pictures from the last month and upcoming dates:
Thank you and have a great long weekend,
Mrs. King
