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Dear Clough Families,

I hope all of our Clough families have the chance to enjoy the Thanksgiving break with family and friends. I am grateful for our students, staff, and families. Today, we had our family meetings where we each talked about gratitude with our school families. Everyone had a chance to fill out a turkey feather where we wrote what we are thankful for. Thanks to Mrs. Stone, our art teacher, who created a turkey body for us to help display all our gratitude feathers.

Looking forward to seeing many of our families tomorrow morning, Nov. 21, for Breakfast and BINGO! Families can come into the cafeteria at 7:45 to play BINGO and enjoy breakfast together. If families are able, they can bring in a non-perishable food donation for us to give to the local food pantry. Prizes will be awarded and our student council members will help call the numbers! See the flyer below and we hope Clough families will be able to join us!

On Friday afternoon, we had a whole school assembly where we all recited our Choose To Be Nice pledge and gave out the first of many awards recognizing students who demonstrated the core value of kindness. Staff members will be nominating students, and I will be giving out awards throughout the year. Congrats to the following extra kind students who received our first awards:

Ethan M, kindergarten

Varoon M, SI kindergarten

Amelia M, kindergarten

Madelyn R, 1st grade

Ethan P, 2nd grade

Madelyn S, 3rd grade

We are planning on another book swap on the day before winter break in December. We will place a box outside to start collecting gently used books. Perfect time to clear off your bookshelves at home. The book swap will help all of our students go home over winter break with some new reading!

Tomorrow is the deadline to sign up for the next session of enrichment. See the button below. Also, check out the flyers about Chess Class!

Sincerely,

Liz Garden

Clough Principal

P.S. Save the date - We will be hosting a Family Math Night on Wednesday, Dec. 20th. More information to come! We will also be hosting an informational night about reading instruction, science of reading, and foundational literacy skills during January's PTO meeting. More details to come.

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Choose To Be Nice

We will be talking to students throughout the year about different core values such as kindness, respect, teamwork, acceptance, patience and several other important values. We are utilizing the Choose To Be Nice program for resources and activities. They have resources for families that can be found here:

https://choosetobenice.com/home-community-resources/

Here's a great family BINGO game that I found on their site and wanted to share! We will share other resources and activities throughout the year.

They also have a spot on their website where you can order Choose To Be Nice gear: https://choosetobenice.com/the-shop/

Mendon Turkey Trot!

The Mendon Turkey Trot is back for the 7th year!

New this year, we’ll have chip timing and a costume contest. You can even start a team and use it as a fundraiser! This is a family-friendly 5k run on Thanksgiving morning. Walkers welcome too! We start and end the race at Clough Elementary and all proceeds of this race go to the Clough PTO.

Make sure to register early, the first 150 registrants get a free race t-shirt!

Link to register: https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Mendon/mendonmaturkeytrot

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