Principal's Blog

Monday, October 22, 2018

Festival Of Trees 2018

Dear Families,

This year the Shawsheen will be contributing to the Festival of Trees for the WOW foundation who does so much for our families and schools! The theme will be Snow Day and the students at the Shawsheen have helped to come up with some ideas on what to contribute for donations. I am sending this out early as the Festival is the first weekend in December and I know how busy things can get.

If any families can make a donation we would much appreciate it. All donations can go to the main office from now until November 21st.

We would like to split up the donations by Grade levels. Please see below for suggested donations:

Grade 3: Things to do inside on a snowy day.
* Snuggle up with a blanket
* Movies, popcorn and snacks
* Books
* Baking goods or Hot Chocolate
Grade 2: Things to do outside.
* Snow Gear (mittens, gloves, hats)
* Sleds
* Snow fort tools
* snowman making

Grade 1: Things to do with your family.
* Arts and Crafts
* Card Games
* Board Games
Other:
* fake snow for under the tree

Thank you all,

Mrs. King

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

October updates and reminders

Good Afternoon Families,

We have some exciting things happening at the Shawsheen Elementary School. Students have now been introduced to the 3 R’s within their classrooms and at our first All School Meeting. They have also been introduced to the golden awards during specialist times and the cafeteria expectations and rewards. On Friday we will have another all school meeting to discuss some examples of the 3 R’s and celebrate our successes as a school. The T-shirts are in! All first grade students will go home with a T-Shirt before Friday and anyone else who ordered one. Students are encouraged to wear their Shawsheen T-shirt on Friday for our All School Meeting. We also had fire safety and the students did a great job paying attention to the presentation from our Wilmington Firefighters!

We had our 2^nd annual walking school bus experience. Bus 8 and Bus 16 this year were invited to ride the bus in the a.m on Wednesday and get dropped off on Cushing Drive. From there we were escorted by the WPD and staff members while walking to school. We understand that this time around not all students who rode the bus in could participate but please assure your children as did we that we are planning on doing this again in the spring and they will get first priority! Please see some great pictures below.

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PAC:

Pie orders are due in by this Friday.

Trunk or Treat to be held at the Shawsheen Parking Lot on Sunday, October 28^th. More information to come on donations and volunteer opportunities. Free Event for students of Shawsheen and West.

WEF Walk:

We will be having our Joanne Benton WEF walk on October 31^st at 2:15. Students are welcome to wear their Halloween costumes. No scary masks, weapons or face paint. Make sure all costumes are in bags and labeled. We will be walking around the outside of the building for about 20 minutes. Families are welcome to watch or join in. A notice went home to families on making a donation to the WEF foundation online or via the school.

WOW Festival of Trees:

This year the Shawsheen School is going to do a Snow Day tree. The tree will be a white snowman and we will be looking for donations from classrooms and families. I will be sending something out as it gets closer.

We have many field trips and enrichment days ahead so please check your calendars and notices from your teachers on those.

Thursday, September 20, 2018	Open House for Parents/Guardians 6:00-8:15PM	All
Friday, September 28, 2018	Early Dismissal for Students. 12:00 Dismissal	All
Monday, October 08, 2018	No School - Columbus Day	All
Wednesday, October 24, 2018	Eyes on Owl for Grade 3	Gr. 3
Oct 15th-18th	vision and hearing	all
Oct 22nd-25th	week of grade 3 field trip	gr 3
October 31st	Joanne Benton WEF Walk Time 2:15	All
Thursday, November 01, 2018	PICTURE DAY for All Shawsheen Elementary	All
Sunday, November 04, 2018	DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME-CHANGE CLOCKS
Tuesday, November 06, 2018	No School for Students - Teacher Prof. Day	All
Monday, November 12, 2018	No School - Veterans Day	All
Wednesday, November 21, 2018	Early Dismissal for Students. 12:00 Dismissal	All
Thursday, November 22, 2018	No School - Thanksgiving Holiday	All
Friday, November 23, 2018	No School - Thanksgiving Holiday	All
Thursday, November 29, 2018	Star Lab Enrichment for Grade 1	1

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Reminder Open House and Collections for WOW

This is a reminder that open house will be tomorrow evening at the Shawsheen Elementary School. Please see the schedule below or review the website for more details. I wanted to also let families know that we will be helping WOW in collecting the following items below for families affected by the hurricane and also the fires in the surrounding towns. WOW will be having a truck here on Saturday but we as school are happy to collect items to give to WOW on Saturday on behalf of the schools and families. You can drop off donations by the main office.

v Grade 3 – 6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.

v Grade 1 – 6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:45 p.m.

v Grades 2 – 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, B15 and B16 will begin at 5:30 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

Below is a list of items WOW will be collecting and distributing to all causes.

http://www.onewilmington.org/get-involved

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Weekly Update

Dear Families,

We had a great full week of school this week! The students are getting used to the expectations when arriving to school and everyone is making it to their classrooms successfully. Thank you to all the parents who are dropping off the students in the morning. Students are getting used to the routine of getting out the cars without parent assistance and it is making the car rider procedures in the a.m. more efficient. Please remember for car rider pick up to pull up your cars as far as they will go in the lot. This will allow for all cars to squeeze in and for the busses to be able to navigate around the cars. Please remember that cars may not exit through the in entrance until after 3:20 when most of busses have cleared. This is a safety issue for both the cars and the busses. We are also asking that if your child is arriving late or you need to dismiss your child that you park in the lot and enter through the front door. Thank you for helping with this.

Next week we are having our first All School Meeting on Monday morning. If your students have a Shawsheen Shirt they are welcome to wear it. If not, any school Wilmington school spirit or blue and white will be perfect. This is a time when we all get together as an entire school. The first meeting will be an overview and kick off to discuss respect, responsibility and resilience.

On Thursday will be our open house for parents. Below is a reminder of the times and the full letter is on the blog. https://shawsheenschool.blogspot.com/

v Grade 3 – 6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.

v Grade 1 – 6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ~ Information Session will begin promptly at 6:45 p.m.

v Grades 2 – 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, B15 and B16 will begin at 5:30 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: