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Dear Families,

Next week we will be celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week! Our teachers work incredibly hard every day to nurture our young learners’ social, emotional, and academic growth. We are so proud to lead a school that is full of such caring, committed educators. Please join us in thanking our teachers for all they do. Let’s help them remember that they are our students’ heroes!

In addition to Teacher Appreciation Week, we are also pleased to share our spring Parent Feedback survey. We truly value your input, and strongly encourage you to complete the survey. Your experience matters to us! 21-22 Parent Feedback Survey

With appreciation for your partnership,

Joey & Andrea

Plants and Animal Senses

Students rotated amongst the six grade 1 classrooms where they completed different science lessons and explorations.

The Unified Sports teams from Memorial and Center will be joining together for a regional event at Glastonbury High School this coming Saturday morning.

Hi everybody, we hope you had a great vacation and are enjoying the spring temperatures and weather!

We are now wrapping up our Gymnastics Skills Unit in PE class, which covers the entire month of April. The children focused on clear expectations of both technical skills in gymnastics and all the safety rules that go along with this unit. They did a great job on both ends!

The first week of May we will be using the cargo climbing nets, then going back outside whenever we can to finish up the year with cooperative games and our track and field unit.

Here is a summary of how the gymnastics unit went:

PreK and K- We worked a lot on the mats and tumbling wedges with balances and movements using a wide variety of muscles. We also used the various balance boards, balance beams (including the last week where the children were able to try the high beam, with the coaches spotting!), and vaulting area with the spring boards.

Grade 1- We worked a lot on the mats and tumbling wedges with balances and movements using a wide variety of muscles. We also worked on cartwheels, round offs, and various forward rolls. We also used the various balance boards, balance beams (including the last two weeks where the children were able to try the high beam, with the coaches spotting!) where the children practiced four dismounts (along with many balances and movements on the beam), and the vaulting area with our spring boards.

Grade 2- We worked a lot on the mats and tumbling wedges with balances and movements using a wide variety of muscles. We also worked on cartwheels, round offs, and various forward and backward rolls. We also used the various balance boards, balance beams (including the high beam, with the coaches spotting) where the children practiced four dismounts (along with many balances and movements on the beam where routines were developed), and the vaulting area with our spring boards, where several various vaults were practiced.

Grade 3- We worked a lot on the mats and tumbling wedges with balances and movements using a wide variety of muscles. We worked on tripods and tip-ups as well. We also worked on cartwheels, round offs, and various forward and backward rolls. We also used the various balance boards, balance beams (including the high beam, with the coaches spotting) where the children practiced four dismounts (along with many balances and movements on the beam where routines were developed) and the children were also able to develop and show their routines to be scored, and the vaulting area with our spring boards, where several various vaults were practiced and challenges took place.

The children are very excited to climb the cargo nets next week! Children get a chance to go onto the cargo net, see how it feels, and then safely climb up to comfortable, and safe height, with the coaches spotting.

If you have already signed up to volunteer to help with Fun Day, thank you very much, we cannot do it without you! If you haven’t, but are thinking about it, please send in the volunteer sign up form, as we are still in need of more volunteers across each grade level. Thank you for any time you can volunteer. Below are the dates of our Fun Days (June 10th is a make up day):

PreK and K- Mon., June 6th

Gr. 1- Tues., June 7th

Gr. 2- Wed., June 8th

Gr. 3- Thurs., June 9th

This week we celebrated our Administrative Assistants that work incredibly hard to keep our building blossoming every day!

Dear Parent/guardians,

We are seeing an uptick in recent Covid cases and symptoms. If your child presents to the nurse's office with a complaint of the following symptoms, we will most likely be calling to have your child picked up from school and highly recommend testing even if there is no known exposure. Stay home when there are any signs of infectious illness and contact your healthcare provider for further guidance. These symptoms include:

-fever or chills

-cough

-shortness of breath or trouble breathing

-fatigue

-muscle or body aches

-diarrhea

-headache

-new loss of taste and/or smell

-sore throat

-congestion/runny nose

-nausea/vomiting

Please also note that students need to be fever and symptom free for at least 24 hours without use of medication before returning to school. Please consider sending in a doctor’s note if the symptoms are related to seasonal allergies, as May is a terrible month for allergy symptoms. We appreciate your assistance in keeping our school healthy and safe for our students and staff. We also have several Covid test kits remaining, so let us know if you need one!

Thank you,

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

5/2-5/6 National Teacher Appreciation Week

5/3- SBA Math Assessments Begin Grade 3

5/4- School Nurse Appreciation Day!

5/4- National ACES Day- All Children Exercising Simultaneously

5/9- BOE meeting, 6:30pm

5/11- Instrumental "Petting Zoo"- Grade 3 Students who wish to start a band instrument at Center School

5/13- Grade 3 Dance, 5:30pm

5/13- Cafeteria and Custodian Appreication

5/16- Grade 3 Band Parent Information Night

5/23- BOE meeting, 6:30pm

5/23-5/26- Writing Celebration

5/27- IT Appreication Day

5/30- No School- Memorial 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
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