The students and staff have had a very successful November. Although it is one of our busiest months the students all participated in many enrichment/field trip opportunities.
We had our PAC holiday fair on November 2nd, which was very successful. Thank you to all the families who attended and the PAC for volunteering to continue this tradition.
Our professional development day was also a big success and staff really had time to engage in different learning opportunities.
Our first graders had Star Lab come from the Museum of Science and they had a blast going inside the domes to see the constellations.
For Veterans Day many of our students contributed pages with notes on a veteran in their life with photos. It filled the wall with pictures. Check the local town crier for a photo! Also, we have created a book for students to look through or take out from the library of all the pictures.
The week of the 18th our grade 3 classrooms went to the Commonwealth Museum and learned all about rights through Massachusetts history. It was a great trip and the students learned a lot. Next week the second graders will be going on the Plimoth Plantation trip on Monday, rain or shine! Please make sure students are dressed appropriately, have a bagged lunch and snack labeled. Pick up will be at 4:15 at the school.
On Tuesday, we will be having our ALL School Meeting and students are encouraged to wear their Shawsheen shirts or blue and white. At the ALL School Meeting we will be presenting on kindness. Included in this will be an update from our student leaders on the 400 food items donated and sorted for the Wilmington Food Pantry that will be dropped off tomorrow. Thank you to Mr. Welch and Mrs. Jewett for organizing this! In addition, we will talk about our tree for the Festival of Trees called Handing out Kindness. On the tree will be hands with acts of kindness written on them, the skirt of the tree will have each students finger print on it and the tree will be filled with gift cards and donations to pass the kindness on to someone else. Thank you to all the families who help to bring in food donations and tree donations.
It has been a tradition that each year as a school and as a district we help out the Wilmington Fire Department by housing a Box for Toys For Wilmington Children. We are starting to collect those donations. Please feel free to have your child drop off a toy or during open house on December 5th, you are welcome to bring in a donation.
Just a reminder that we have no school on Wednesday!
I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your time with your families.
Mrs. King
