All School Meeting
We had our first all school meeting today! The students did a terrific job. We talked about the 3 R's which included respect, responsibility and resilience! We also talked about kindness week "filling people's buckets" and Stomp out Bullying day on Monday.
Here is a link to a song and video that we watched. The students really enjoyed it.
kindness song
Have a great day,
Mrs. King
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
October Updates
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
|
Tuesday
10/3
|
Wednesday
10/4
|
Thursday
10/5
|
Friday
10/6
|
Students
and Staff wear blue to support Stomp Out Bullying
Special
Author will present at Assembly
www.ellasway.com
|
Students
and staff wear Sneakers and go ask a friend to play!
Friendship
Squad at recess begins!
|
Find
a new friend at lunch. Students will get an opportunity to make a
new friend!
|
Free
Compliment Day -Take one and give one!
|
Paper
Chain creation to illustrate bucket filling and everyone gets a sticker and
certificate.
|
Please
see upcoming dates below
Date
|
Event
|
Thursday,
September 28, 2017
|
All School Meeting for Students
and Staff
|
Thursday,
September 28, 2017
|
Shawsheen Open House
|
Friday,
September 29, 2017
|
Early Dismissal 12:00
|
Monday,
October 02, 2017
|
Stomp Out Bullying Week - Wear
Blue!
|
Monday,
October 2nd
|
Ella's Way Assembly
|
October
2 - 5, 2017
|
Book Fair in the Library
|
Monday,
October 9, 2017
|
No School - Holiday
|
Thursday,
October 19, 2017
|
Grade 1 - Read for the Record
|
Wednesday,
October 25, 2017
|
Grade 3 Eyes on Owls Presentation
|
Thursday,
November 02, 2017
|
Shawsheen Picture Day
|
Tuesday,
November 7, 2017
|
Students No School - Teacher Prof.
Development Day
|
Friday,
November 10, 2017
|
No School - Holiday
|
Monday,
November 20, 2017
|
Grade 2 Field Trip to Plimoth
Plantation
|
Wednesday,
November 22, 2017
|
Early Dismissal 12:00
|
Thursday,
November 23, 2017
|
No School - Holiday
|
Friday,
November 24, 2017
|
No School - Holiday
|
Thursday,
November 30, 2017
|
Gr. 1 Starlab Enrichment Program
|
Thank you all and have a great week,
Mrs. King
Friday, September 15, 2017
Upcoming Dates and News
Good Afternoon,
The students and staff have had a great start to the school year. The weather has been cooperating and the classroom temperatures have been manageable. Teachers and students have dived right into the curriculum and have begun Readers Workshop, Fundations, and Envisions. The students are engaged in picking just right books and doing sustained independent and quiet reading time. They are adjusting well to their new schedules whether it is a different lunch time or recess time. Recess times this year have been to altered to explore trying a different time to break up parts of the day instead of directly after or before lunch. This also helps with maintaining uninterrupted ELA blocks. So far the students have done really well with this change.
Bus and car rider procedures are going very well also. Students are exiting the cars efficiently and walking along the lines. We really appreciate everyone helping out in the a.m with these procedures. In addition, afternoon car rider is going well. Just a reminder to use the crosswalk if students are parked by the playground.
Below are some upcoming dates. Please note that these may be updated with more events but we wanted to give families a glimpse of what we have booked.
In addition, open house is coming up and a notice went home to discuss the times. Below is a reminder of the open house letter.
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. King
The students and staff have had a great start to the school year. The weather has been cooperating and the classroom temperatures have been manageable. Teachers and students have dived right into the curriculum and have begun Readers Workshop, Fundations, and Envisions. The students are engaged in picking just right books and doing sustained independent and quiet reading time. They are adjusting well to their new schedules whether it is a different lunch time or recess time. Recess times this year have been to altered to explore trying a different time to break up parts of the day instead of directly after or before lunch. This also helps with maintaining uninterrupted ELA blocks. So far the students have done really well with this change.
Bus and car rider procedures are going very well also. Students are exiting the cars efficiently and walking along the lines. We really appreciate everyone helping out in the a.m with these procedures. In addition, afternoon car rider is going well. Just a reminder to use the crosswalk if students are parked by the playground.
Below are some upcoming dates. Please note that these may be updated with more events but we wanted to give families a glimpse of what we have booked.
Date
|
Event
|
Thursday, September 28, 2017
|
Shawsheen
Open House
|
Friday, September 29, 2017
|
Early
Dismissal 12:00
|
Monday, October 02, 2017
|
Stomp Out
Bullying Week - Wear Blue!
|
October 2 - 5, 2017
|
Book Fair in
the Library
|
Monday, October 9, 2017
|
No School -
Holiday
|
Thursday, October 19, 2017
|
Grade 1 -
Read for the Record
|
Thursday, November 02, 2017
|
Shawsheen
Picture Day
|
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
|
Students No
School - Teacher Prof. Development Day
|
Friday, November 10, 2017
|
No School -
Holiday
|
Monday, November 20, 2017
|
Grade 2
Field Trip to Plimoth Plantation
|
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
|
Early
Dismissal 12:00
|
Thursday, November 23, 2017
|
No School -
Holiday
|
Friday, November 24, 2017
|
No School -
Holiday
|
Thursday, November 30, 2017
|
Gr. 1
Starlab Enrichment Program
|
Thursday, December 07, 2017
|
Early
Dismissal - Parent Teacher Conferences
|
Friday, December 22, 2017
|
Early
Dismissal 12:00
|
Dec. 25, 2017 - Jan. 1, 2018
|
No School -
Winter Break
|
In addition, open house is coming up and a notice went home to discuss the times. Below is a reminder of the open house letter.
We would like to cordially invite you to attend our Open House to be held on Thursday evening, September 28, 2017. We are asking parents to report to your child’s classroom for an information sharing session. We have scheduled a separate session for each grade level as follows:
v Grade 1 – 6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.
v Grade 2 – 6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:45 p.m.
v Grades 3 – 7:30 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.
v Special Education Classrooms ~ Information Session in B11 and B16 will begin at 6:45 p.m.
v Specialists and Support Staff will be available to informally discuss their programs with you from 6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. at the following locations:
o Special Education Staff - Learning Specialists - C19 & B12; Speech Pathologists - C19B
o Reading Support Staff – C18 and C19A
o Health – C17
o Music –B9
o Art – B10
o Library –B-Level by ramp door
o Guidance Counselor – Across from the Main Office
o Nurse-Nurses office
o Physical Education-Gymnasium
Since the school year has just begun, the purpose of this meeting is not to discuss individual student progress. These individual discussions will take place during parent/teacher conferences or by appointment, if necessary. Teachers will share their curriculum plans with you, as well as the classroom routines. We would like to remind you that this event is for parents only. We appreciate your efforts in making arrangements to have someone stay with your child(ren). Please allow extra time to park since we anticipate a big turnout.
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you on September 28th.
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. King
Friday, September 8, 2017
PAC Meeting Monday, Sept. 11th
PAC Meeting this Monday, Sept. 11 at 6:30pm
in
the Shawsheen Cafeteria
Please Join Us!
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Hurricane Harvey Support
Dear parents/guardians:
The Wilmington Public Schools would like to help support the victims of Hurricane Harvey. One of our principals has a connection to the Katy, Texas school system. The schools in that district have set up Amazon sites for those who would like to help the schools. If you wish, just click on the link below and follow the instructions for supporting the school of your choice.
Thank you for your consideration,
Lisa King
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Welcome Back Letter 2017-2018
Dear Families,
I can’t believe summer is almost ending and the new school year is
beginning. I have heard from so many students via postcards. My family and I
did a little traveling this summer to Madeira beach in Florida and LEGOLAND. As
you can imagine, Legoland was a hit! Please feel free to check out the Post
Card to the Principal bulletin board when you visit the Shawsheen this year.
All of the staff have been working diligently preparing for the opening of
school. A big thank you to our secretary, Mrs. O’Reilly for her organization
and endless preparation, thank you to our custodians Dan, Justine and Ken for
working tirelessly on preparing all the floors and rooms for teachers and
staff. Another thank you to our staff who I have seen in and out of the
building on their own time preparing new bulletin boards, lessons, setting up
desks and ultimately being ready for a great first day of school. All this hard
work and dedication has not gone unnoticed.
We have so many wonderful things to look forward to this upcoming
school year including some new staff members, the continuation of reader’s
workshop in grades one and three and Fundations program in grade 2. Second
grade will also begin the implementation of reader’s workshop this year. Our
theme this year will focus on Kindness and incorporating our PBIS matrix and
lesson planning that will be intertwined within all school areas. To help
with this message is the book How
Full is Your Bucket, by Tom Rath. Each year a book is selected
and the message within that book is celebrated throughout the school year.
Along with the ongoing theme of Kindness we will be establishing and continuing
on with school wide norms and expectations that will be included in the role
out of PBIS. We have a team of teachers and staff that will help to work on
establishing and finalizing these along with assistance from our students, of
course. More information on this will be filtered out as we proceed through the
Principals Blog and or other forms of communication. In addition, we will
continue on with the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach when working with
students on any unsolved problems. Some staff were very fortunate last year to
be trained by a co-worker of Ross Greene who wrote Lost at School and The
Explosive Child. This year we are going to continue with this approach to
problem solving and teach more staff about this. For more information on the
CPS or PBIS, please see the blog http://shawsheenschool.blogspot.com/. You can
also follow the school on Twitter @shawsheenschool.
I am thrilled to add some new staff to the Shawsheen Elementary
School. We have a new health teacher, a speech and language pathologist and our
behavior interventionist who will now be leading her own classroom to support
students with similar needs. In addition, to Paula Bartalamia continuing in
this manner we have two new aides in her program and welcome them on board.
Mrs. McNamara, our art teacher, has taken a position across town and we are
happy to announce that we are in the process of transferring another great art
teacher from the district. Please check the blog within the next week for
introductions on all the new staff members.
As part of our tradition in the elementary schools we welcome students
and families to visit the school the evening before to view their classroom. We
find that this helps to alleviate stress or anxiety of where their desk is or
how to get to their classrooms. This will take place on August 28th from
5:00-6:00. Teachers are not required to be here, but you will have an
opportunity to meet them during Open House scheduled for September 28th. More
information will be sent out once the date gets closer. We hope to see
families on August 28th.
Reminder that school starts on Tuesday, August 29th and we have no
school on the Friday!
Please note that bus routes are normally posted one week before
school begins on the district website. Also, if your child is going home by a
different means of transportation for the first day we will need a note.
Lastly, I worked with some parents this summer to update the car
rider procedures in both a.m and p.m. Please view the new maps and read over
the procedures if you intend on dropping off or picking up.This is also posted
on blog and I will send a reminder out as school approaches.
As always we look forward to a fantastic year and to see all the
students entering into their new grade. If anyone needs any assistance prior to
school beginning or during the year please feel free to contact the school or
myself.
Enjoy the rest of your summer,
Mrs. King
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