The Eagle's Nest

Hello Walsh Families,

Please assure that your child wears a mask to school each day. We have many students arriving at school without a mask.

Thank you for your continued support of your children. We wish you and your families a blessed and safe Thanksgiving!

Chris Smith, Principal

Jeff Moore, Associate Principal

Saturday, November 6

• Fall Back - Set clocks back 1 hour before you go to bed!

Friday, November 19

• Walsh School Picture Day

Monday, November 22

• No Student Attendance - Virtual Parent/Teacher Conferences - 1:00 - 7:00 PM

Tuesday, November 23

• No Student Attendance - Teacher Institute Day

Wednesday, November 24 - Friday, November 26

• No Student Attendance - Thanksgiving Holiday

Parent Teacher conferences will be held on Monday, November 22 from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Conferences will either be virtual on Zoom or via phone.

If you have not set up a time to meet with your child's teacher, please contact them. It is important that you meet to discuss how your child is doing in school and ways you can support them at home.

Students of the Month for the month of October were recognized by their teachers for "Trustworthiness". Congratulations!

Throughout the month of November students will focus on their grade level social emotional learning priority standards and “I can” statements. The priority standards are focused on POSITIVE interactions, STRENGTHS, and understanding how others FEEL!

Positive Things to Say to Your Child

1. You are important.

2. You make me proud.

3. You are loved.

I’m Mrs. Marroquin. I’m the K - 4 Steam teacher. I’d like to spotlight the kindergarteners this week.

We have been learning about weather, the seasons, and the sun heating up the planet. We are also working on engineering and building things in class as well. The kindergarteners had to design and create a structure that would keep their "monster" out of sun, and cooler, so that it can have fun playing with the other monster friends. They did fabulous trying to follow their design plan and put that into their creation. They created them all on their own with tape, scissors, and paper. They learned that they needed to try their best and keep improving when it didn't work out the way they wanted it. I had a blast watching them in this process. I am very proud of their hard work. I'm sharing some examples of their work.

I also wanted to share some pictures from Mrs. Retzke's class. We had so much fun "coding" BeeBots, which are little bee robots, to move around the steam lab. I had so much fun watching them laugh and have fun, while learning how they work at the same. time. I know they will ask to use these again, and I will be prepared to add to their excitement with the BeeBots! I wonder what I'll have in store for them next week. So exciting!

Students in Mrs. Schuster's kindergarten class have been working on counting to 100. Congratulations to these 5 students for counting their way into the "100 Club"!

Ms. Mann's Kindergarten Class and Mrs. Neboska's 4th grade class are buddies! They combine classes every other week and do a special activity. They just finished making "Buddy Scarecrows"!

Miss Schneider and Mrs. Cafcules' third grade classroom transformed into boot camp for a day! Students worked hard throughout the day completing different reading and word study drills. In the afternoon, they had multiplication boot camp as a review for their math test! They worked hard and played hard; as a reward for their hard work, they earned some free time!

Walsh School is so fortunate to have an amazing new art teacher this year, Ms. Ardith Zucker. Ms. Zucker will be at Walsh until the middle of January. At that time, we will switch and have music.

Please look at the slideshow below of the AMAZING projects that Ms. Zucker has been doing over the past few months!

Students WILL be charged fees for damage/loss of technology items.

Fees are:

• Device Sleeve/cover - $10
• Charger - $25
• Touch Screen - $115
• Device - $250/new device; $200/2 years old; $150/3 years old; $100/4 years old (new devices are provided to 1st and 5th grades every year

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E-mail: parenthelpline@sd104.us

Phone: 708-458-0141

Email: chsmith@sd104.us
Website: https://www.sd104.us/
Location: 5640 South 75th Avenue, Summit, IL, USA
Phone: 708-458-7165
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