Cheetah Pride Press!

Dear Families,

This week the halls of Memorial School were bustling with friendly faces. Students enjoyed shopping for that "Just right" book at the Book Fair, and families were rushing to meet with teachers for their first parent/teacher conferences of the year. We were elated to welcome families into the building this week. Conferences provide a wonderful opportunity for staff to share student progress, student work, and celebrate each child's success! We are so proud of all of our students. They are persevering and growing every day!

A special thank you to all the Book Fair volunteers! Your assistance made the experience go smoothly for all involved! Thank you to Mrs. Flannery and Mrs. Hill for coordinating this event!

Classroom tidbits:

• In kindergarten, students are working on identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story, along with the problem and solution.

• In first grade this week, writing skills have been blossoming as students studied informational writing, and worked on publishing their "How to" books!

• In second grade, students are learning to use keywords to help further their understanding about non-fiction topics.

• In third Grade, students are reading and writing nonfiction text. They are adding to what they know about a topic of interest by conducting research on the topic.

For the month of December we are discussing the profile of a graduate principle " Wonder."

One way you can inspire your child to wonder is by listening to children and helping them explore their ideas. Children are naturally curious. Listen to their questions. What they’re wondering about is what interests them. (Janet Kliplanger Ciccone 2018)

Best,

Joey and Andrea

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

These students were selected for a positive Referral by their teacher for going above an beyond to either take care of oneself, others or their things. Their accomplishment is celebrated over morning announcements, followed by a visit to the office, a picture with administration, and the opportunity to pick a prize from the "Cheetah Chest."

At Memorial School students are working on using their imagination! This month, we are encouraging children to think outside the box, create, wonder and explore. Imagination is defined as the process of forming a mental picture of something that is not present. Here are a few ideas of how you can foster your child's imagination at home:

• explore new ideas
• practice problem solving
• plan and test ideas
• learn through trial and error
• take risks
• learn to accept failure and try again

Linked is an article from Parenting Magazine with, 10 Ways to Fire Your Child's imagination

https://www.parenting.com/activities/kids/10-easy-ways-to-fire-your-childs-imagination-21354373/

Hi everyone,

Things are going great in PE class as the warm weather has allowed us to stay outside, for the most part, right up until Thanksgiving break. After Thanksgiving break we will plan to be inside the gym until spring.

Our Preschool and Kindergarten students have been continuing to work hard with our classroom expectations of doing our best, being a kind and helpful partner, understanding our progress, and improving our fitness, strength, and flexibility. We have spent some time outside with our frisbee unit which includes throwing at various targets, to a partner in Kindergarten, and having fun experimenting with throwing the frisbee at different angles and various distances. We also spent some time working at fitness and skills stations in the gym, along with our usual running and exercising routines.

Our First Graders have been continuing to work hard with our classroom expectations of doing our best, being a kind and helpful partner, understanding our progress, and improving our fitness, strength, and flexibility. In our frisbee unit, we worked on throwing and catching, as we incorporated and worked on understanding how to “curve” or “bend” the frisbee and control its flight, as well as different catching techniques. We finished with a modified disc (frisbee) golf hole that groups played and had fun with. We also spent some time working at fitness and skills stations in the gym, along with our usual running and exercising routines.

Our Second and Third Graders have been continuing to work hard with our classroom expectations of doing our best, being a kind and helpful partner, understanding our progress, and improving our fitness, strength, and flexibility. In our frisbee unit, we worked on throwing and catching, as we incorporated and worked on understanding how to “curve” or “bend” the frisbee and control its flight, as well as different catching techniques. We finished with a disc (frisbee) golf course that groups played, had fun with, and practiced keeping and recording their scores. We also spent some time working at fitness and skills stations in the gym, along with our usual running and exercising routines.

It’s been a great fall with the children progressing nicely in many different areas, including overall fitness and strength, various skill development, and with our classroom expectations, such as effort and taking pride in their effort, appreciating the efforts of their classmates and partners, cooperating and working together on various tasks and activities, and enjoying the feeling and benefits of exercise and movement.

Have a great Thanksgiving break, we hope you can get outside and enjoy the outdoors as we get ready for winter and hopefully some fun in the snow!

Coach Ruel

Coach Boscarino

Parents/guardians,

We are so excited to welcome Michelle Lemire to the Memorial family. Michelle Lemire is the new nurse assistant at Memorial Elementary School. She lives in East Hampton with her husband, 3 girls, and 2 dogs. Her family loves hobby farming, growing fruits and veggies and looking after their chickens. They also help look after the neighbor's oxen calves and their horse, Spice. She was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa before moving to Massachusetts in middle school.

Reminders:

*Please bring in an extra set of seasonally appropriate clothing for your child to keep at school. The occasional accident happens and if your child has their own clothing we know that it will fit them and that they will be comfortable.

*With the colder weather here, please make sure your child also has a coat, gloves and a hat labeled with their names. The nurse's office has very limited clothing to spare in case a change or spare is needed.

*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.

*Preschool students are required to show proof of vaccination against the flu by December 31st. If you have not done so already, please provide documentation of immunization to the school as soon as possible. We appreciate your assistance,

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

We are happy to announce that preschool collected over 400 bars of soap, hand soap, toothpaste, shampoo, and toothbrushes for the East Hampton food bank.

Thank you all for your support and giving.

The PreK team

Currently, the Lost and Found is located in the foyer area of Memorial due to the book fair taking place. A huge thank you to Mrs. Sargeant, our wonderful volunteer that organizes the Lost and Found items for our building. Pictures of the items will be posted to the Memorial School Facebook page and East Hampton PTO website. We truly appreciate all that she does for our school in making sure every lost items finds a home!

Important News

East Hampton Bus Routes

CHANGE on Monday, December 6

Please review information carefully to confirm changes for your children.

Attention Parents:

On Monday, December 6, in order to accommodate the number of drivers to whom he have access, we are adjusting our bus routes in the fairest way possible to ensure the best possible serve to our families.

There are two changes that will impact all families:

1. Bus #3 and Bus #7 have been eliminated. All students on these routes have been assigned to other buses.
2. The pickup/drop off times have been adjusted for all routes. There are many time changes to stops given the new bus assignments.

Please make sure that you take the time to review the information included in this email. The attachments included and the links provided below have the same information. Each bus run: (1) High School, (2) Middle School, and (3) Center & Memorial includes two charts.

1. Chart 1 – An alphabetical list of streets.
2. Chart 2 – A complete list of routes in order of Bus numbers.

Please review the attachments or the links below in order to determine any change to your child’s route and/or the pickup/drop off time.

If you review via the links, there are two tabs at the bottom. The first is the alphabetical list of streets; the second is sorted by the route number. Both versions are attached as separate PDFs.

Parents can use search features in both versions. DATTCO truncates addresses and removes periods, so, for example, to search “South Main Street” search “S Main” or “S Main St” and for “East High Street” search “E High” or “E High St”.

See the attached PDFs – or use the links below to confirm bus routes/times.

Elementary Routes - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13U4EQggGMcur7PssWc8HcDDS4J4sj6cYB0lnN0ChBWA/edit?usp=sharing

12/6- New Busing Routes Begin

12/8 & 12/9 - Holiday Shop

12/13 - Magical Monday in the Cafeteria

12/14-12/16 Kindergarten ABC Fashion Show

12/23 - Early Dismissal

12/24 -1/2/22- Winter Break

• 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