Families,

As Thanksgiving draws near, we have been reflecting on all that we’re thankful for; and our Memorial School family is at the top of the list! Thank you for sending us your most precious gifts each day, and thank you for trusting us to partner with you as we foster our learners’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral growth. We both feel so lucky to lead such a wonderful school community. Taking Care of Others is what we do best, and we couldn’t be more proud.

This will be a short week, with an early dismissal on Wednesday, November 23rd. Please take time over the Thanksgiving break to relax and enjoy time with your families. When we return from the holiday recess, parent-teacher conferences will be upon us. We look forward to welcoming you all into the building on November 30th and December 1st to discuss your student’s progress.

Thank you for your partnership,

Joey & Andrea

A PAWsitive office referral is submitted when a staff member recognizes a student who is going above and beyond to exemplify one of our three school rules - taking care of others, taking care of self, & taking care of things.

Congratulations to Ms. Hart on being recognized as this week's Order of the Cheetah. She is a paraprofessional in our building. Ms. Hart exudes positivity, as you can always see her walking the halls with a smile.

Hi everybody,

We are just about winding down our outdoor PE classes (we also made it to Thanksgiving!) and getting ready for a long stretch of units and activities in the gym. We had a great fall of outdoor PE with nice weather and fun activities, including the running club, soccer skills, lacrosse skills, frisbee and foxtails, and our new and very exciting unit, disc (or frisbee) golf with our new disc golf baskets (thank you very much to our PTO and school administration!)!

We are practicing and working on empathy daily in our school and in our PE classes with all the children.

A couple notes:

If anyone has any home fitness equipment that they may no longer be using and would like to donate it to our “fitness lab” in our gym, please let Coach Ruel or Coach Boscarino know (contacts below), we would love to take it off your hands! Our older students love working out on the fitness lab equipment we now have and really enjoy using equipment they may never get a chance to use outside of our fitness lab, so thank you very much for any contributions that might come our way!

Also, when the children return back from our winter recess, they will be welcomed back to our new climbing wall (again thanks to our fabulous PTO, school administration, and Special Education Teacher Laurie DeGross for all her research and insight!). The children will spend time each week on the low element climbing wall as part of their daily PE class warm ups! It will be an awesome addition and the climbing wall will be used by all our students, both in PE class, and outside of PE class, we are all very excited! More information and pictures to come right after the winter break!

Here's a recap on the latest “fall action” in our PE classes:

PreK and K:

- we had some fun on the scooters.

- throwing and catching various weights and sizes of different balls and other things with different textures and shapes.

- stations, where we focused on fun and fitness based skills, like ring toss, corn hole toss, jumping short and long ropes, hula hooping, scarfs for beginning “juggling”, “snow cones” and “ice cream cones” for tossing and catching and working on eye- hand coordination and skills, stacking cups, spinning plates, jumping sticks, and skip its.

- frisbee and foxtail throwing and catching.

- cooperative games.

- fitness and stretching exercises and warmups before our main activity or skill for the class.

Grade 1:

- we had some fun on the scooters.

- throwing and catching various weights and sizes of different balls and other things with different textures and shapes.

- stations, where we focused on fun and fitness based skills, like ring toss, corn hole toss, jumping short and long ropes, hula hooping, scarfs for beginning “juggling”, “snow cones” and “ice cream cones” for tossing and catching and working on eye- hand coordination and skills, stacking cups, spinning plates, jumping sticks, and skip its.

- frisbee and foxtail throwing and catching.

- disc/frisbee golf with our new “baskets”.

- running club completion on our outdoor running course.

- fitness and stretching exercises and warmups before our main activity or skill for the class.

Grade 2 and Grade 3:

- we had some fun on the scooters.

- fitness clubs with stations where we recorded our results and focused on fun and fitness based skills, like jumping short and long ropes, hula hooping, jumping sticks, and skip its.

- using the fitness lab equipment in the gym.

- disc/frisbee golf with our new disc baskets and on our newly created disc golf course (10 “holes” on our front fields inside where the running course is).

- beginning our new indoor running club.

- running club completion on our outdoor running course and fitness and stretching exercises and warmups before our main activity or skill for the class

Enjoy the beginning of fall, Thanksgiving, and the build up to the holiday season and winter!

Greg Ruel, gruel@easthamptonct.org

Bob Boscarino, bboscarino@easthamptonct.org

860-365-4020

Manipulatives are an integral part of math learning and are incorporated into daily lessons and work places with Bridges in Mathematics. They support student engagement and differentiation, give students ownership of their own learning and provide another representation for the mathematics being studied. Manipulatives serve as a model that supports students as they think about, remember about, and communicate about the math being studied. Bridges has various manipulatives and models used in their instruction.

Third grade mathematicians have been using grid paper and colored tiles to create arrays. An array is an arrangement consisting of equal rows and columns. Arrays are used to represent multiplication equations.

Students harvested the last of our produce from the garden this week including Butternut Squash, Turnips, Cabbage, Lettuce and Parsley. The kiddos love pulling up food that grows underground and trying to guess how big each one will be.

The East Hampton Public Schools is proud to introduce School Based Health Centers in each of our schools. Soon, enrolled students will be able to receive behavioral health services during the school day. The School-Based Health Care (SBHC) staff are licensed health care providers, who are able to deliver behavioral health services to students during the school day. They work in conjunction with the student’s primary care providers to support their social, emotional, and behavioral health care needs. SBHC is proud to serve over 17,000 students throughout Connecticut. If you are interested in School-Based Health Care for your students, please visit SBCH2.com for enrollment information and forms.

State Championship Weekend- Volleyball Saturday 11/19 and Boys Soccer Sunday 11/20

Please come out and support the volleyball team and the boys soccer team as they play for State Championships this weekend.

The volleyball team plays for the CIAC Class S State Championship on Saturday 11/19 at 4:00 pm vs Hale-Ray at East Haven High School, 35 Wheelbarrow Lane East Haven CT 06513

The boys soccer team plays for the CIAC Class S State Championship on Sunday 11/20 at 11:00 am vs Old Saybrook at Trinity Health Stadium (home stadium of Hartford Athletic Soccer Club).
For soccer parking: Fan parking is available in the lot next to the Stadium across Huyshope Avenue. Please alert fans there is no street parking permitted around the Stadium.

On-line Tickets –All tickets will be sold on-line. Tickets can be purchased in advance on-line by going to https://gofan.co/app/school/CIAC

Fan Information – Please remind your fans and students of CIAC tournament regulations regarding NO noisemakers, horns, signs and sportsmanship expectations at CIAC events.

Conclusion of the Game – It is critical that NO students or spectators will be allowed on the field/court at the conclusion of the game.

Television Coverage – All games will be streamed by the NFHS Network (subscription required). Go to NFHSNetwork.com/CIAC for the full schedule and information.

Please share this information with friends and family.

LET'S GO BELLRINGERS!!!!!

Dear parents/guardians,

Please make sure your child has a spare change of seasonally appropriate clothing and shoes to keep at school. Occasional accidents happen or students go down a wet slide or fall in the mud or a puddle out at recess. We appreciate your assistance.

In November, the federal funding of free breakfasts and free lunches runs out for the State of Connecticut - and East Hampton students. On December 1, families will again begin paying for lunches in East Hampton, something that they did not have to do during the last two years.

Please read the attachment for important details.

Paul K. Smith, Superintendent of Schools

PTO Sponsored Food Drive will take place until 11/24/22

• 11/22- Wear Red for 22Q.11.2
• 11/23- Early Dismissal School Break
• 11/24 & 11/25- Thanksgiving Break
• 11/28-12/2- Book Fair
• 11/30 & 12/1- Conferences Early Dismissal
• 12/2- PBIS Assembly and Spirit Day : Wear Your Cheetah Gear
• 12/9- PJ Day For The Kids- Students donate $1 and wear your PJs
• 12/14-12/16 Holiday Shop
• 12/16- Holiday Accessories- Wear your favorite holiday accessory
• 12/23- T'Was the Night Before Winter Break- PJ day

The East Hampton Board of Education and the school community as a whole promote a secure and productive school climate, conducive to teaching and learning that is free from threat, harassment, and any type of bullying behavior. Therefore it shall be the policy of the Board that bullying and/or teen dating violence committed against a student by another student is prohibited. The Board believes that a school environment in which students feel safe, supported, engaged and helpfully challenged is optimal for learning and healthy development. The Board seeks an environment in which students and adults feel socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically safe; an environment that is free of harassment, intimidation, teen dating violence and bullying. Our website provides links to various policies and reporting forms including our Safe School Climate Plan. Hard copies are also available in our main office. If at any point you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to building administration for further assistance.

When considering the number of absences your student has accrued, keep in mind that a student must be present for 195 minutes in order for the day to count! When bringing your student in late, or signing them out early if they have not been in school for a 195 minutes the day will be recorded as an absence.

The East Hampton Board of Education is committed to a safe and secure learning environment that honors and celebrates the diversity of our students, our community, and our nation. The Board of Education in partnership with the school community will not tolerate any threat of violence in the schools or any hate speech that targets any race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Each student is held to the highest standards of responsible decision making within a culture that is expected to foster compassion, caring, and empathy.

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
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