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Dear Families,

Happy Memorial Day! While enjoying the three day weekend, we hope you will take a moment to reflect on Monday’s holiday. Please join me in sending love to anyone who has lost a friend or family member while serving in the armed forces. Our thoughts are with you. And to those who have friends or family members who are currently serving…. May they all return home safely.

In addition to our observance of Memorial Day, I know that our hearts are all heavy after this week’s senseless tragedy. As educators and caregivers, we are often tasked with putting on a “brave face” for our students, even when we may not feel like the strongest version of ourselves; and I know how difficult it must have been for everyone to demonstrate bravery when sending their children to school on Wednesday morning. We all want our students to end the school year strong… feeling safe, loved, and accomplished – especially after all that the last couple of years have thrown at us. Tuesday’s tragedy makes that goal feel difficult; but we will do everything we can to ensure that our final weeks together are full of joy and fond memories. As a primary building, I know we will do our best to continue to shield our young learners from the ugliest aspects of our world, and we will fill their days with laughter, warmth, and safety.

As you continue to process the events of the past week, you may find these resources helpful:

Helping Children Cope with a Gun Violence Tragedy

Helping Children Cope with a Gun Violence Tragedy - Spanish

How To Talk to Young People in the Aftermath of Shootings

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

Our annual Writing Celebration was a huge success! Throughout this week, our students proudly showed off how much they've grown as writers. Our families were amazed to see our young writers' growth. Many families asked if the binders would be coming home. They'll come home soon!!!

On Friday, May 27, 2022 we held our first grade level assemblies in TWO years! We talked about perseverance, got excited about summer reading and math challenges, celebrated all of our students' hard work this year, cheered on the classroom teachers in minute-to-win-it challenges, and even had visits from the MEMORIAL CHEETAH! And, at the end of the grade 3 assembly, Mrs. DeGross bravely allowed Mrs Bauer & Mrs. Montovani to cut off her braids. She'll be donating her hair to an organization that supports children with hair loss.

Thank you to the Wadsworth Chapter of DAR for their thoughtful donation of the book, 21 Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld, in honor of Memorial Day. We are excited to add this wonderful book to our library’s collection!

Grade 3 students are MOVIN’ ON UP! Soon they will be Center School students. We are so proud of them, and can't wait to recognize their transition to 4th grade. Please plan to join us for a brief ceremony at the following times:

Tuesday, June 14th:

• Evans at 9:00
• Frost at 9:45
• Haydu at 2:00

Wednesday, June 15th:

• Hennessey at 9:00
• Rossi at 9:45

Each ceremony will be held in the cafetorium, and will last approximately 30 minutes. Following the ceremony, there will be time for pictures in our front lobby. Bring your cameras! We can't wait to see you.

Hi Cheetah families!

May 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 bugs, animals, and summer.

• Kindergarten is continuing their work around coding. We are learning to create basic sequences by using our new beebots. Students also enjoyed listening to Snail Crossing, Cinco de Mouso, and Chicks and Salsa, and No More Naps.

• First grade students continue to build their coding skills by using the beebots, our coding robots. We are also having fun with lego challenges, and listening to fractured fairy tales.

• Second graders are having fun with lego challenges and are listening to Wayside School is Falling down or one of the Weird School books.

• 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

Grade 3 Families,

We are excited to announce that grade 3 students will be visiting Center School on Friday, June 3rd! In order to maximize the time that our students are able to spend there, students will go straight to Center School that day. If your student rides the school bus, they will be getting off the bus at Center School that morning, as opposed to Memorial School. Center School staff members will board the bus upon arrival to greet the students and guide them into the school. If you typically transport your child to school, we ask that you drop your student off in the Center School circle between 8:25-8:40. The grade 3 teachers will meet the students at Center School. Lunch will be provided by the Center School cafeteria staff. Or, if you prefer, you may send a lunch with your child. Once everyone arrives, our students will adhere to the following schedule:

8:45-9:20 Introductions and Teacher Panel Q&A
9:20-9:30 Transition to Classrooms
9:30-10:50 Visit 4 classrooms for 20 minutes in each room
10:50-11:10 Lunch in the Center School Cafeteria
11:15-11:25 Recess
11:30 Board Buses to Return to Memorial School

5/30- No School- Memorial Day

6/2 - Integrated Preschool Graduation

6/3 - Grade 3 Students Visit Center School

6/6 - Kindergarten Fun Day

6/7 - Grade 1 Fun Day

6/8 - Grade 2 Fun Day

6/9 - Grade 3 Fun Day

6/10 - Kindergarten Shows

6/14- Moving Up Ceremony

6/15 - Moving Up Ceremony

6/16 - Last Day of School- Half Day

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