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Dear Families,

It’s national Random Acts of Kindness Week! Model kind behavior for your child by sharing the love and sprinkling kindness wherever you go! Your act is guaranteed to brighten the recipient’s day. At school this week, students will be encouraged to demonstrate acts of kindness toward their fellow students and staff. Those kind acts will be captured on small paper hearts and hung on classroom doors. We can’t wait to see our hallways covered in Kindness.

As a reminder, this is a four day week for students. On Friday, February 18th, teachers will be engaged in professional learning opportunities; and school is closed through Tuesday, February 22nd in honor of Presidents’ Day.

Classroom Tidbits:

Preschool- Practiced how to make an uppercase and lowercase Oo as well as the letter Oo sound. Some Oo words they worked on were orange, owl, octopus, ostrich and oval.

Kindergarten-- Readers wrapped up their Super Reader Unit. They learned that Super Readers talk about books and retell their stories.

Grade 1- Readers identified and discussed the problems and solutions in the stories they read. They also had an official introduction to nonfiction texts!

Grade 2-Students finished reading with book partners and shared books that they have come to love!

Grade 3-Readers continued to work on predictions, with a specific focus of making predictions based on character's traits.

As is always the case, we truly appreciate 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.

This month we are working on taking care of others! Taking care of others is one of our three school rules. Staff have been discussing and modeling how to take care of others with students since the beginning of the school year. Writing letters, observing kindness week, and giving reminders through announcements are just a few ways we are promoting taking care of others this month.

Linked is the video, "Caring for others." We encourage you to watch the linked video with your children and discuss ways they can take care of others in school, at home, and in their community!

Dear Families,

Our Memorial School post office opened on February 7th and Smart Start postal workers have been delivering mail around the clock!

Students can write letters to anyone in the building. Writing a letter is one way you can take care of someone else. Through letter writing students can express their kind thoughts to someone and let them know they care. Encourage your child to write a letter to someone else in the building as a way to show that they care. It is just one of many ways we can spread kindness as Memorial School.

Hello Memorial Families!

Preschool Expectations: Students learned to be an echo while singing the silly song “Down By the Bay”. They even tried making up their own verses with rhyming words! We also chanted “Five Little Monkeys” and had fun pretending to build a house while singing “Bling Blang”.

Kindergarten Expectations: This month, our musical comparison words were high and low. These words are often confused with loud and soft, so we do many activities to reinforce the concept. Students met our two puppet friends, Blue Dog (with a low voice) and Kitty (with a high voice) and were expected to find high and low sounds in various poems, songs, and stories. Favorites included “Mr. Wiggle and Mr. Waggle”, “Grandma’s Glasses”, “See Saw”, and “Goldilocks”. We had fun imitating the characters’ high and low voices!

First Grade Expectations: Students learned about a new music word this month - ostinato (a pattern that repeats). Students also spent this month learning how to play xylophones! Our unit focused on the song “Who’s in the Woods on this Snowy Day”. We learned to play three different ostinato parts to go with the song, focusing on playing with a group, using proper technique, and making the parts fit the song. Students explored the bass xylophone, alto xylophones, soprano xylophones, metallophone, and soprano and alto glockenspiels! They were expected to play with the instructed technique and to show appropriate audience behavior.

Second Grade Expectations: This month, students reviewed the concept of ostinato (a pattern that repeats), including watching a silly music video about the word! Then, they were expected to use teamwork to complete a composing project, creating an ostinato to “remix” a music class song. They finished by performing their song and ostinato pattern for the class! Creative performances involved a tool on our chromebooks called “Chrome Music Lab”. The other focus this month was on learning our new note on the music staircase - Do! This low note was found in songs like “Knock the Cymbals”, “Who’s that Tapping at the Window”, and “Rocky Mountain”.

Third Grade Expectations: Students spent the month working on skills that prepared them for the recorder unit. They were expected to identify the notes B, A, and G on the treble clef staff as well as read and perform rhythm patterns with accuracy. As of this Friday, one class has gotten started playing the recorder, and the others will follow closely behind in the next couple of weeks. Our beginning expectations will include demonstrating how to hold the recorder, how to play B, A, and G, and how to play the first song, “Hot Cross Buns”. For more information on the expectations of the recorder unit, see the Recorder page on the Music Room Website!

Please check out the music room website for more information about the music program. Feel free to reach out at any time by emailing smaldonado@easthamptonct.org.

Mrs. Maldonado

Order Po’s on 2/15 or 2/17 and a portion of your order will be donated to the PTO!

Purchasing is available now through 2/12/22. Please use the attached link. You have a choice to have your purchases shipped to your home at a cost or sent to the school at no cost. All apparel sent to the school will be organized and students will bring it home.

Grade one is collecting Valentines cards for senior citizens in our community this year! Students around the building are creating Valentines Day cards. This year their goal is to collect even more cards than last year so they can deliver to more towns!

The due date for Valentines Day cards to be submitted is February 11th.

Do you have a vehicle or work for a company that has a cool truck or car?

Would you be willing to volunteer at Touch a Truck at Memorial school from 10am-1pm on March 27th?

If so please contact Stacey Gibson at sgibson@easthamptonct.org

We would love the support of the community for this event.

TOUCH-A-TRUCK will be for the whole community of East Hampton to have a hands-on interactive experience with a variety of vehicles parked in Memorial school’s parking lot.

Donations to attend support PreK experiences at Memorial school.

Dear parents/guardians,

If your child is experiencing any of the following symptoms, please keep them home for at least 24 hours (without use of pain relieving medication) before returning to school:

fever (temperature of 100.4 or higher)

sore throat

diarrhea

vomiting/nausea

uncontrolled cough

loss of taste or smell

poor appetite/lethargy

pink eye

Please make sure your child has a spare change of seasonally appropriate clothing as well as snow boots, snow pants, a coat and gloves. Students go outside for recess and mask breaks as long as temperatures are above freezing including wind chill.

With the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday, please be reminded to avoid food treats in the classrooms. We have several students with severe food allergies. Food treats will not be consumed in the classrooms and will be sent home. We appreciate your assistance in maintaining a safe environment for all students and staff.

We also ask that you bring a labeled water bottle for your child and they can fill it up throughout the day in the water filling stations as needed.

Please reach out with any questions or concerns!

Thank you,

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

School Nurse

Memorial Elementary School

20 Smith Street

East Hampton, CT 06424

Phone 860-365-4020 / Fax 860-365-4024

kwilliams@easthamptonct.org / https://www.easthamptonps.org/o/memorial-school

2/14-2/17 Celebrating Kindness Spirit Week

2/14- Valentine's Day- spirit Day Wear Hearts and BOE meeting at 6:30pm

2/15 Wear Read or Pink

2/16- Dress to Impress

2/17- I LOVE comfortable clothes

2/18- Professional Development Day- No School

2/21- President's Day

2/22-District Holiday

2/25- Cheetah Pride Day- Wear your Memorial School Gear or blue and yellow!

• Please reference the most recent guidance document from Paul Smith.
• The Connecticut General Assembly gave the Governor authority to extend Executive Orders through February 15, 2022. Executive Order No. 9, Section 1, and Executive Order No. 13A, provides the authority to require masks in schools, childcare facilities, and certain higher-risk settings, as well as providing municipal authority to require universal masking in certain settings.
• If a student is quarantined, asynchronous assignments will be provided and communicated by your student's teacher.
• Volunteers and guest speakers are welcomed in the building. All volunteers and guest speakers who enter classrooms, hallways, or other areas where children are located will be required to be vaccinated or submit testing results upon entering the school.

The school community of East Hampton is committed to the mission of honoring and celebrating the diversity of our students, our community, and our nation. We strive to guide our students to conscious, deliberate, individual and collective actions that cultivate the respect of all races, religions, and social backgrounds. Our school community endeavors to produce graduates who are equipped with a greater understanding of the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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.

Email: jbauer@easthamptonct.org
Website: https://www.easthamptonps.org/o/memorial-school
Location: 20 Smith Street, East Hampton, CT, USA
Phone: 860-365-4020
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ehmemorialschool