Weekly Wrap-Up #37

May continues to keep us busy right until the end! With less than 20 days left to go in the school year, the calendar just keeps filling up with more and more events!

This past week, we celebrated Memorial Day with a special visit from our Washington Township Veterans of Post 1776 on Wednesday. The Veterans held a flag raising ceremony outside which the whole school participated in. Mrs. Postigo led the 5th graders through an a cappella version of the National Anthem. The event then continued with Mrs. Positigo leading the whole school through a few more patriotic songs. At the conclusion of singing, Mr. Perruso said a few words about the importance of Memorial Day and the sacrifices that our Veterans have made for our country and our community. It was a truly wonderful day for our students and our Veterans.

This past week, we also finished our make up testing for NJSLA. All students in grades 3-5 have now completed all parts of the state assessment. Students in grades 1-5 will now start with the end of the year MAP assessment this week and next. Please continue to have your students bring their headphones and charge their Chromebooks in preparation for these assessments.

Assessment Dates

Grade 1- 6/1 and 6/2

Grade 2- 5/31 and 6/2

Grade 3- 5/30 and 5/31

Grades 4+5- 6/5 and 6/8

Lastly, a big shout out to Mrs. Postigo and the 1st Grade students for their wonderful performances last week. Mrs. Postigo arranged for two performance last week, one with Mrs. Rosato's and Mrs. Draghi's homerooms and one with Mrs. Wood's and Ms. Zugelder's homerooms. All in all, it was a wonderful opportunity for our students to show off all the musical knowledge they have learned over the past year and put on a beautiful performance for their parents and guardians! Thank you to all the students and a special thanks to Mrs. Postigo for all the hard work organizing and getting our students ready for their performances!

Please take a look below at the plethora of activities and events that are coming up in these next few weeks!

Looking Ahead:

Mondays in May- Staff Dress Down Days- 11th Hour Animal Shelter Fundraiser

Monday, May 29th- School Closed Memorial Day Break

Tuesday, May 30th- 5th Grade Orientation Trip to LVMS 9:30-11:00AM

Wednesday, May 31st- LVMS Accelerated Math Assessment 8:15AM

Wednesday, May 31st- PreK- 2nd Grade Field Day. RAIN DATE- 6/8

Thursday June 1st- Grades 3-5 Field Day. RAIN DATE- 6/9

MORE INFO REGARDING THESE EVENTS BELOW

Thursday June 1st- 4th Grade Vocal Music Concert @ BAC Cafeteria 7:00PM

Friday, June 2nd- 5th Grade Picnic at LVMS

Monday, June 5th- PTO General Membership Meeting @ BAC Cafeteria 7:00PM

Monday and Tuesday, June 5th & 6th- Kindergarten Round Up @ BAC Library 8:30 and 10:30

Tuesday, June 6th- 5th Grade Field Trip to Stoney Acres

Wednesday, June 7th- 5th Grade End of Year Instrumental Concert @ BAC Cafeteria 8:30AM and 6:30PM

Friday, June 9th- PTO School's Out for Summer Event @ Cucinella Playground 5:30PM

Wednesday, June 14th and Thursday, June 15- Half Day for students.

Thursday, June 15th- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!

RELATED ARTS SCHEDULE: Tuesday starts our Related Arts schedule on a DAY 3.

Looking forward to another great week,

Christopher Perruso

We would like to thank students from West Morris Central's Aspire program who have assisted with our Pre-K teachers over the course of the school year. Lucy, Molly, and Faith have helped out and assisted Mrs. Miranda, Ms. Fernicola, and Mrs. Ryan in the classroom by leading groups and helping to manage the day to day operations of a preschool classroom. They have been a huge help but now their time at Cucinella is coming to an end. Please join me in thanking these students for their help over the course of the school year. We wish them the best in their future endeavors!

We are excited to announce our annual field day event at Benedict A. Cucinella Elementary

School! This event celebrates teamwork, friendly competition, fitness, and fun. Teachers will

escort their class from station to station led by our very own 5th Grade Ambassadors! To

make this special day fun and safe for everyone, please take note of the following important

information.

Wednesday, May 31st

9:00-10:00AM- First Grade and AM Pre-K Homerooms

10:30-11:30AM- Second Grade Homerooms

12:30-1:30AM- Kindergarten and PM Pre-K Homerooms

Thursday, May 1st

9:00-10:00AM- 5th Grade Homerooms

11:00-12:00PM- 4th Grade Homerooms

12:30-1:30PM- 3rd Grade and Mrs. Miranda's PM Pre-K Homerooms

Click here for more info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FI9G-HbmTnfBWHqapi9ZHaVFN1LnRPfd/view?usp=share_link

• THIS EVENT IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Only a small handful of PTO approved volunteers will be in attendance to help.




• Students should wear sneakers, sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses.

• Students should bring in a reusable water with their name clearly written on it.

• Students can bring a change of clothes in the event that they get wet.

• Please make sure to complete the Food Related Excusal Notice: Watermelon Form. Watermelon will be served at the end of our field day events. If you would like to excuse your child/children from having watermelon, please fill out this form. Click here for the Form

• Medically excused students can cheer on their class but will not be able to participate unless they are cleared by their physician. If your child has been disagnosed with a medical condidition that may be aggravated with exercise, please contact our school nurse prior to this day by phone at (908) 850-3161 ext. 2 or by email: jewer@wtschools.org

Hello Families,

We recently challenged our Scientists to illustrate the layers of the Rainforest, after several days of reading and class discussion. We couldn’t be more pleased with the results, and wanted to share the finished projects with you! Your children worked diligently in cooperative groups to create accurate scientific drawings which accurately depict the layers and contents of the rainforest. We are so proud of all their efforts this year!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Leonard

Attention parents of our incoming Kindergarten students, if you have registered your child for kindergarten, we will be holding our Kindergarten Roundup on Monday & Tuesday, June 5th & 6th. The roundup will last approximately an hour and fifteen minutes. There will be two session, one at 8:30 and another at 10:30. During this time, the incoming students will participate in a variety of activities with our Kindergarten staff. These activities help us to learn more about them as students and individuals.

While the students are off having fun with their teachers, the parents will be meeting with Mr. Perruso, Mr. Serfozo, Mrs. McCool, and Nurse Ewer so that we can provide you with an overview of Kindergarten and additional information you may need as your child embarks on his/her journey into education! We are looking forward to seeing you.

The Sign Up Genius link was emailed to all who have registered their child for the upcoming school year. If you did not receive an email, please contact Mrs. Deanna Dargel (ddargel@wtschools.org) for help.

Dear Families,

It’s that time of year again…when everything is due back at the library!

• Starting Tuesday, May 24th, no materials may be checked out of the library, unless you need books for a school project.

• We will still have Library Technology classes.

• Friday, June 2nd ALL books are due back in the library, unless you need them for a school project.

• If you cannot locate your library books they will need to be replaced with a NEW copy of the same title. Please contact Mrs. McCarty for details at pmccarty@wtschools.org.

Even though the library will be closed for the summer, you should never stop reading! There are many opportunities this summer to enjoy good books.

• Visit the Washington Township Public Library and sign up for their Summer Reading Program.

Thank you for helping take care of our library's wonderful collection!

It's that time of year! We are looking to get our incoming Kindergarten students registered for the 2023-2024 school year. If you have a child who will be five years old on or before October 1st, 2023, please register for kindergarten. Early registration allows us to plan for the appropriate class size for the upcoming school year. We are hoping to have students registered by February 18th. Please follow this LINK to register your child for Kindergarten. More information can be found on the BAC Home Page. If you need assistance, please contact the Main Office at 908-850-3161.

The lost and found is housed directly outside of the Main Office, and we are happy to help students if they are looking for something in particular. Thanks again to Mrs. Inskeep for keeping this updated and accurate. Please take a minute and check out the collection and see if any items belong to your child. https://www.facebook.com/cucinella.lostandfound.1/

Click here to get a copy of the newest issue of Cucinella's PTO's "Nellie's News Flash".

The next step of integration is we now exclusively use PickUp Patrol for recording your child's absences. Please click here to review how to use the program to record absences.

The absence line which was previously used to record absences has now been disconnected.

Our secretaries and nurse are no longer checking phone messages for absences. This information is now handled exclusively through the PickUp Patrol app. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue to integrate this new attendance management system.

If you have not downloaded the app or set up your account yet, please do so as soon as possible.

Click here for more information about Pickup Patrol

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the secretaries, Mrs. Deanna Dargel or Mrs. Boomi Varathrajan.

Email: cperruso@wtschools.org
Website: https://www.wtschools.org/o/bac
Location: 470 Naughright Road, Long Valley, NJ, USA
Phone: (908)-850-3161