Reminder: School Resumes On Thursday, January 2nd
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 30, 2019
Monday, December 16, 2019
December Updates
Good Afternoon Families,
I want to thank all the families and students for the variety of donations we have received this year for various endeavors. As you may recall from a previous email the students sent over 600 items to the local food pantry, donated over 600 dollars’ worth of gift cards and kindness ideas for our Festival of Trees and lastly our donation bin for toys for Wilmington Children through the Wilmington Fire Department is filled! It is wonderful to be around such caring families and students. Around this time of year, it is nice to encourage and notice the 3 R's at the Shawsheen School (respect, responsibility and resilience).
This week on Friday we will be having an All School Meeting and instead of wearing our Shawsheen shirts we are encouraging students to wear their favorite pajamas or comfy clothes. During our meeting we are going to do silent sustained reading together in the cafeteria as a group. Your child may bring in a favorite book from home, magazine, or book from the classroom.
Just a reminder that Friday is a full day of school. School will resume on January 2nd.
Lastly, I just want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday and Happy New Year.
Looking forward to seeing everyone in the New Year!
Friday, December 13, 2019
Pajama Day and All School Meeting -Friday, December 20th
Pajama Day and All School Meeting
ON
December 20th
Students and staff are invited to wear pajamas or cozy clothes to school. We are also going to do 10 minutes of silent sustained reading together as a school during a portion of our All School Meeting on Friday!
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Happy Snow Day and Updates
Good Morning,
I hope everyone is enjoying some quiet time at home with family as we are all snowed in! I wanted to send out a few updates for this week since our timelines have changed a little bit. Report cards were suppose to go out on Wednesday. Due to the two snow days, the report cards will now go out on Friday. Conferences will still resume on Thursday and the students will have an early release day. Just a reminder that no lunches will be served and dismissal is at noon. If your child is going home by a different means of transportation, please send in a note. Also, it is important that all guardians entering the building for a conference go through the front door. All doors will be locked as we still have CARES in the building. We also ask that you go out the front door as well to maintain safety. Thank you so much for helping with this.
Also, just a reminder that the Shawsheen Tree this year is called "Handing our Kindness" and is full of over 500 dollars worth of gift cards. The students also created fingerprints for the skirt of the tree. Look on twitter for a picture or go and check it out this weekend at the Festival of Trees.
We are also a collection spot in support of the Wilmington Firefighters for donations for Wilmington Children. Please feel free to send in any toy or donation (new) to the school for the bin or parents are welcome to drop off during parent/teacher conferences on Thursday.
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your day,
Mrs. King
Principal
I hope everyone is enjoying some quiet time at home with family as we are all snowed in! I wanted to send out a few updates for this week since our timelines have changed a little bit. Report cards were suppose to go out on Wednesday. Due to the two snow days, the report cards will now go out on Friday. Conferences will still resume on Thursday and the students will have an early release day. Just a reminder that no lunches will be served and dismissal is at noon. If your child is going home by a different means of transportation, please send in a note. Also, it is important that all guardians entering the building for a conference go through the front door. All doors will be locked as we still have CARES in the building. We also ask that you go out the front door as well to maintain safety. Thank you so much for helping with this.
Also, just a reminder that the Shawsheen Tree this year is called "Handing our Kindness" and is full of over 500 dollars worth of gift cards. The students also created fingerprints for the skirt of the tree. Look on twitter for a picture or go and check it out this weekend at the Festival of Trees.
We are also a collection spot in support of the Wilmington Firefighters for donations for Wilmington Children. Please feel free to send in any toy or donation (new) to the school for the bin or parents are welcome to drop off during parent/teacher conferences on Thursday.
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your day,
Mrs. King
Principal
Friday, November 22, 2019
November Updates
Good Afternoon Families,
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
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
Winter Upcoming Dates
December
2019
Wednesday,
December 4th: Report Cards Issued
Thursday,
December 5th: ½ Day for Elementary Parent-Teacher Conferences
Friday,
December 20th: All School Meeting-Wear Your Blue and White!
Monday,
December 23rd: Holiday Vacation Begins-No School until After New
Year
January
2020
Thursday,
January 2nd: School Resumes
Monday,
January 20th: No School-Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday,
January 29th: ½ Day for Curriculum Improvement Time
February
2020
Monday,
February 17th-Friday, February 21st: No School-February
Vacation
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Festival of Trees 2019
Dear Shawsheen
Families,
As the holiday
season approaches we are continuing our tradition of having a Shawsheen
Elementary Tree at the Wilmington Festival of Trees! Proceeds support WOW
(We’re One Wilmington) and all they do for our students and families. The
festival is being held Saturday, December 7th and Sunday, December 8th
2019. Here is a link with more information: http://onewilmington.org/events/festival-of-trees/.
This year the
theme of our tree will be Acts of Kindness. The PAC has
generously donated a tree & lights. As a school, we would like to
collect monetary donations and/or gift cards for the tree. Donations are
completely voluntary; families only donate if they wish to. We will have
students think of kind acts that go along with the gift cards we receive.
Regardless of what we receive, the tree will be from the entire Shawsheen
School.
You are welcome to contribute in one of two ways:
1.
Buying a gift card that
can be used as an act of kindness. We have included a list of ideas below, but
feel free to come up with your own!
2.
Making a monetary
donation toward a larger gift. We are suggesting monetary donations in the
$5.00 range (again, this is strictly optional).
Please send any donations to Shawsheen Elementary in an envelope labeled
Festival of Trees by Monday, November 25th so we have enough time to
put everything together.
Thank you for
your generosity and kindness!
With
Appreciation,
Please use this list as ideas of acts of
kindess for our tree. These are simply ideas-we welcome any donation!
Act of Kindness
|
Examples of Gift Card
Ideas:
|
Pay for the coffee for
the person behind you in line
|
Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Heav’nly
Donuts
|
Buy someone lunch
|
Local restaurant
|
Feed the birds
|
Home Depot, Lowes
|
Write a loved one a
letter
|
The Paper Store
|
Donate to a local food
pantry
|
Market Basket
|
Take someone to the
movies
|
AMC, Showcase Cinemas,
Redbox
|
Make a craft to
brighten someone’s day
|
A.C. Moore, Michaels
|
Help someone destress
and relax
|
Spa, Nails Salon, Bath
& Body Works, Yankee Candle, Yoga Studio
|
Send a care package to
soldiers
|
Dollar Tree, Walmart,
Target
|
Help an animal/animal
shelter
|
Petco, PetSmart,
Target, Walmart
|
Bring coffee to your
friends
|
Starbucks, Dunkin
Donuts, Heav’nly Donuts
|
Bring home dinner
|
Local restaurant/take
out shop
|
Fix something for
someone in need
|
Home Depot, Lowes
|
Read a story to a
child(ren)
|
Barnes and Noble, Used
Book Superstore
|
Donate toiletries to
those in need
|
CVS, Walgreens
|
Play some music to
make someone’s day
|
iTunes, Amazon
|
Buy a toy for a child
|
Target, Walmart
|
Send someone flowers
|
Local florist shop,
Mahoney’s
|
Wash someone’s car
|
King Triton Car Wash
|
Send a sweet treat to
someone
|
Winfrey’s Candies,
Edible Arrangements
|
Donate a care package
to a nursing home
|
Target, Walmart,
Dollar Store
|
Provided shoes/socks
for a homeless shelter
|
Target, Walmart,
Marshalls, TJ Maxx
|
Donate items needed to
children in foster care
|
Amazon, Target,
Walmart
|
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