North Scituate Elementary School

Welcome back and Happy New Year to all our North Scituate Families. During this holiday break, I hope everyone was able to refresh, rest, and be ready to start the new year strong.

We are well into the second trimester and approaching the mid-year benchmarking period. During this time, students will complete testing in both math and reading to assess their progress from the beginning of the year. AimsWeb Plus will continue to be used to assess students in grades K-5. As we know, this is only one way teachers assess student progress over the course of the year.

A friendly reminder, conferences will be held from 3:30pm-5:00pm on Tuesday, January 9th and from 6:00-7:30pm on Thursday, January 11th. If you have questions about your conference time or need to schedule an appointment, please contact Ms. Foster at jennifer.foster@scituateschoolsri.net or 647-4110.

Kaitlin M. Soccio, Principal

Kaitlin.Soccio@ScituateSchoolsRI.net

• Food items are discouraged from being sent into school due to multiple severe food allergies. Any food items brought into school must be approved by Mrs. McCann one full week prior. You can email Mrs. McCann at Colleen.McCann@scituateschoolsri.net.

• As a reminder, if your child is going to be absent please send a note, call the Front Office or email our new Secretary at jennifer.foster@scituateschoolsri.net.
  

• If you have a change in dismissal for your child, please alert the Front Office before 2:00pm, if possible. This allows us time to inform the teacher and student of the change.
  

• Please date notes that are sent to school with students. If you are writing a note about dismissal, please write the full name of the person picking up your child.
• Clearly mark water bottles, lunch boxes, etc. with student's name.

As the cooler temperatures arrive, it is important that your child is dressed appropriately for school. Students will be going outside for recess with temperatures 28 degrees or above. Please ensure your children are dressed for these conditions, and have a sweatshirt or jacket in their backpacks.

SHS Chorus visited us for High Five Friday before Winter Break. After high fives, the Chorus led our students in grades 3-5 for a few Disney Sing Alongs. Thank you for a fun filled morning! Huge thank you to Sgt. Parenti, Ms. Norton, and First Student for making this possible.

Monday: Christmas Spirit or Character Day

Tuesday: Holiday Headwear

Wednesday: Pajama Day

Thursday: Holiday Attire

Friday: New Year's Eve Attire

Huge thank to you our Student Council for organizing this festive week for our school!

We ended the day on Friday with our school Chorus performing Holiday songs for us! Well done everyone!

Huge THANK YOU to the Scituate Police Department for organizing a successful Stuff a Cruiser Event. Thank you to the Scituate Community for supporting this event which provides toys/games for our Adopt a Family program at North Scituate. It's wonderful to be part of a giving and supportive community.

Huge thank you to our PTO and volunteers for making our annual Christmas in the Village event a success. Our school organizes a Bake Sale, Raffles, Duck Game, and crafts (reindeer food and snow) for children. It was great to see our families come to this event as well as former North Scituate Students who volunteered to run the craft stations. Team effort to make this event possible! This event raised over $1200 for our school.

Students can receive these awards given by a faculty or staff member for EXEMPLARY behavior in the following categories: Growth Mindset, Problem Solving, Managing Emotions, Effort, Kindness, and Goal Setting. These categories align with our Social Emotional Curriculum- Second Step.

1st graders have been learning all about shared traits during our science lessons through hands-on matching activities and interactive read alouds.

Local author, Jill Austin, visited our second graders to share her fantastic winter/Christmas books; "What Does Santa Want For Christmas?" and "Every Snowflake Wants To Be A Snowball".

Students in Mrs. DiLuglio's class created Holiday Poems for their families based on their own holiday memories/experiences. Students wrote, edited, typed, and decorated their poem to give to their families this holiday season.

Christmas Multiplication BINGO in Ms. Sloan's class with Mrs. Scucces calling the facts!

Students in grade 4 worked in teams to construct a reindeer out of a balloon and we raced them! They loved this fun teamwork activity!

Fifth graders used their knowledge from our Animal Adaptations Unit to create several different food chains with their classmates!

Classrooms were encouraged to decorate their classroom doors with their grade level partner. Two of the rules were that students must help and must have a holiday theme. Mrs. Soccio was the judge. She had such a hard decision that she selected 4 of her favorite doors- Kindergarten & 1st grade doors. Thank you to all of the classrooms that participated in this fun contest!

During intervention, students worked on Christmas Tree fact families, addition/subtraction reindeer games, and counting money!

To wrap up 2023, students in PE played holiday games. To start 2024, students in grades 3-5 will be doing a basketball unit and students in grades k-2 will do a scooter unit.

Check out our school nurse's page for updates, information, and more. Please call 647-4110 or email Colleen.McCann@ScituateSchoolsRI.net with any questions or concerns.

December was a busy and fun month at North Scituate. THANK YOU to all our parent volunteers for making our Book Fair, Christmas in the Village, decorating ornaments, Holiday Shop, and munchkins possible for all students. I can't thank you all enough for volunteering your time!

Our Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success with sales over $6,000.00. Thank you to our families for purchasing books and supporting literacy!

If you have any questions, please email Lynn Francazio at northscituatepto@gmail.com.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 17th @ 7:30pm

• 01/01: No School- New Year's Day
• 01/02: Welcome back and Happy 2024!
• 01/02: School Committee Meeting at 7:00pm
• 01/03: Mastery Martial Arts Assembly
• 01/04: School Improvement Team Meeting @ 3:20
• 01/09 & 11: Parent Teacher Conferences
• 01/15: No School- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• 01/15: Chelos Restaurant Night

Email: kaitlin.soccio@scituateschoolri.net
Website: https://nses.scituateschoolsri.net/
Location: 46 Institute Lane, Scituate, RI, USA
Phone: 401-647-4110
Twitter: @NScituateSchool