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Dear Families,

This week was full of beautiful weather. The birds were chirping, the weather was warm, and students were smiling with delight as the sun warmed their faces during recess. For those families who are celebrating Easter or Passover, we wish you a joyous holiday weekend. Next week, we will all enjoy a break from our busy schedules and routines. May you find time to make family memories, and engage in activities that leave you feeling rested and healthy. We encourage students to get outside to play, pull out those board games or visit a different playground in a surrounding town. Linked you will find some enjoyable activities you can experience in Connecticut.

With appreciation for your partnership,

Joey & Andrea

Memorial Models are chosen weekly by their teacher and have excelled all week in taking care of themselves, others, and things.

HAPPY SPRING! We have spent this past month appreciating the beauty and arrival of the Spring, and all that is in store for the world around us, in the art room! Here are the classroom expectations for each grade level for the month of March:

Prek and Kindergarten students practiced color mixing: secondary colors from primary colors! Students in PreK learned how to paint the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) and added clouds with cotton balls to add texture to their work.

Kindergarten students created their final still life work of art. They observed real flowers and painted them using the primary colors, and white. They painted stems, leaves, petals, seeds, and buds. They added details with small brushes and even created a vase, pot, or ground for their flowers!

Prek and Kindergarten students practiced washing their brushes in order to take care of the primary colors! Clean paint makes for the prettiest secondary colors! Dip, Drip, Wipe the Tip!

First grade students were busy at work creating REALISTIC animals out of clay! Each 1st grade student had to research an animal that was NOT the same as someone else! We discovered many new types of real creatures in our world. We are learning how to build clay into a 3D sculpture! We are carving, shaping, rolling, patting the clay. We are attaching clay with slip, and even learning the process of firing clay! We lastly get to glaze our sculptures to give them realistic colors!!! We will be writing books about our animals and displaying them during the writing celebration in May!

Second grade students have been learning about, looking at paintings by, and reading a story about American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe. They are creating a work of art made of CLAY! Their clay sculptures will be based on real plants and flowers. The students are learning how to form and shape clay off of a flat clay SLAB. This process of slab construction makes for a sculpture with a strong base, that can either be standing or hanging on a wall (relief sculpture). Their flower and plant sculptures have been so creative and students are even adding special details like bumble bees, spiders, lizards, leaves, berries, and more!

Third grade students have been finishing their coil pot construction! They have learned about scoring clay and adding slip to connect coils (long snake-like pieces of clay). They have stacked and shaped and explored different coil construction techniques, like folded, spiraled, long, short, and arch coils. Choosing between functional pottery and decorative pottery is not necessary with these amazing and creative works of art! Soon, students will be glazing these ceramic masterpieces and taking them home! We can’t wait!

The art show!!!! Thank you so much to all families of Memorial school for coming out to view and appreciate the hard working artists of the schools of East Hampton! It is our FAVORITE time of year, coming together and celebrating the creativity and talents of our amazing students!

Hi Cheetah families!

April is well under way in the Memorial School Library!

See below for grade level classroom expectations.

• PreK students are enjoying a variety of read alouds and songs with the themes of dogs and cats; and dragons and the month of April.

• Kindergarten is continuing their work around coding. We are learning to create basic sequences by using our new beebots. Students also enjoyed listening to Not Your Ordinary Dragon, Muncha Muncha Muncha, and two fractured fairy tales which included The 3 Aliens and the Big Bad Robot, and The 3 dinos. A few classes also had time for Fairy Tale bingo.

• First grade students continue to build their coding skills with the program Kodable. They are also transferring their sequencing skills from Kodable to our new beebots during the last ten minutes of each class.

• Second graders had fun practicing their internet safety skills using a game called Band Runner. The game is specifically for ages 8-10 and focuses on how to stay safe online when gaming or using social media. We are also very much enjoying listening to the classic, The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla.

• Third grade has transitioned into devoting the spring reading The Wild Robot. This is in preparation for Center School’s Summer Reading; One School, One Book. Students are really enjoying this book, some have even gone ahead to finish it on their own!

For more information and updates, make sure to check out the library website at https://sites.google.com/site/centermemoriallibrary/ .

Questions, please contact Mrs. Flannery at rflannery@easthamptonct.org.

Mrs. Flannery and Mrs. Hill

Dear Parent/guardians,

We are seeing an uptick in recent Covid cases and symptoms. If your child presents to the nurse's office with a complaint of the following symptoms, we will most likely be calling to have your child picked up from school and highly recommend testing even if there is no known exposure. Stay home when there are any signs of infectious illness and contact your healthcare provider for further guidance. These symptoms include:

-fever or chills

-cough

-shortness of breath or trouble breathing

-fatigue

-muscle or body aches

-diarrhea

-headache

-new loss of taste and/or smell

-sore throat

-congestion/runny nose

-nausea/vomiting

Please also note that students need to be fever and symptom free for at least 24 hours without use of medication before returning to school. Please consider sending in a doctor’s note if the symptoms are related to seasonal allergies, as May is a terrible month for allergy symptoms. We appreciate your assistance in keeping our school healthy and safe for our students and staff. We also have several Covid test kits remaining, so let us know if you need one!

Thank you,

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

4/15- Holiday No School

4/18-4/22- Spring Break

4/29- Spirit Day " Cheetah Gear"

The East Hampton Board of Education, in compliance with federal and state law, affirms its policy of equal educational opportunity for all students and equal employment opportunity for all persons. It is the policy of the District to promote nondiscrimination and an environment free of harassment regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, ancestry, disability (including but not limited to, intellectual disability, past or present history of mental disorder, physical disability, or learning disability), genetic information, marital status, or age or because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, or age of any persons with whom the individual associates. The District shall provide to all students without discrimination, course offerings, counseling, assistance, employment, athletics, and extracurricular activities. The District shall provide equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The District shall make reasonable accommodations for identified physical and mental impairments that constitute disabilities, consistent with federal and state statutes and regulations.

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