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Families,

With Random Acts of Kindness Week, Valentine’s Day, and a celebratory parade for our Kindergarten Readers, this week was full of CARING acts at Memorial School! We hope your homes benefited from unexpected acts of kindness this week, too!

We are wishing everyone a wonderful long weekend. We trust that our students will return on Wednesday feeling healthy and re-energized as we inch toward March. On March 8th and 9th, we will be welcoming families into the building for Parent/Teacher Conferences. We can’t wait to celebrate your students’ successes with you! Please look for a conference sign-up sheet to be sent by your learner’s teacher.

Thank you for your partnership!

Joey and Andre

Our Profile of a Graduate Principle this month is CARING. We are teaching, modeling and encouraging students to care for one another.

Memorial students and staff created a Caring Circle that stretched around the entire perimeter of the building. Students passed hearts of kindness to one another around the building.

Our Kindergarten students finished their Super Reader literacy unit and celebrated all the reading powers they have learned!

Memorial Models are chosen weekly by their teacher. These students have excelled all week in taking care of themselves, others, and things. The recipients will dine at a VIP table during lunch every Friday!

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.

Grade one students collected and created 162 Valentines, which were delivered to our local senior center as well as senior centers in neighboring towns! Thank you to everyone who took the time to support our senior citizens! Our Valentines brought smiles to many faces. What a wonderful way to spread kindness.

Hi Everyone! The past four weeks we continued with our ball skills units, still using our hands, moving into our beach ball volleyball section, a big favorite with the children. We focused on hand/eye coordination and various supportive skills, reaction time, and cooperative lessons. The children moved from individual work to partner opportunities and at the older grades, team skills and concepts. We have enough beach balls so that every child always has their own ball and is active and working at, or on something every minute of class. Also, nets are always adjusted to the appropriate height for your child.

BEACH BALL VOLLEYBALL SKILLS TAUGHT.

1- Two handed over the head (set) and underhand. (bump).

2- Volley work ( with and without nets)

2- Overhead and Underhand Serves.

3- Jump Serve (Grades 2 and 3).

4- Blocking and Spiking ( Grades 2 and 3)

5- Last week of the unit, modified games were played. ( Grades 2 and 3).

The children’s effort and improvement was Outstanding!

Coach Boscarino and Coach Ruel

Dear parents/guardians,

Please bring in a change of clothes as well as socks and shoes for your child to keep at school. Also, snowpants and snowboots are needed in order for them to play out in the snow. The nurse's office has very limited supply of spare clothing to donate. We would also appreciate any gently used donations of boys size 8 and up sweatpants/joggers and girls size 8 and up leggings.

Thank you for your assistance.

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

Memorial School Preschool Presents:

The 3rd Annual touch a Truck Event

March 26th

10-1pm

Memorial School Parking Lots

ADMISSION: Suggested Donation of $5.00 per family

to support pre-k experiences

Come and see and sit in a variety of trucks: tractors, fire trucks, plows, police, flatbeds, and more.

For more information or questions email: Sgibson@easthamptonct.org

East Hampton’s Memorial School PRE-K is looking for trucks or vehicles that you are willing to bring to TOUCH-a-TRUCK on Sunday March 26th from 10-1pm at Memorial School.

If you are interested please contact Stacey Gibson at sgibson@easthamptonct.org

We would love the support of the community for this event.

TOUCH-A-TRUCK will be for the whole community of East Hampton to have a hands-on interactive experience with a variety of vehicles parked in Memorial school’s parking lot.

Donations to attend support PreK experiences at Memorial school.

African American History Month

2/20- President's Day= No School

2/21- Winter Weekend Break= No School

2/24- Spirit Day- Wear Your Cheetah Gear & Cheetah Pride Assembly

2/27-3/3- Read Across America Week

2/27- Spirit Day- Wear A shirt With Words

2/28- Spirit Day- Crazy Socks Day

3/1-Spirit Day- Wear A Mismatch Outfit

3/2- Schoolwide Read -A-Thon Bring A Stuffed Animal To School

3/3- Spirit Day- Wear A College Or Favorite Place Shirt

3/3- Volunteer Appreication Day

3/8 & 3/9- Early Dismissal - Parent/Teacher Conferences

3/10- No School

3/20- PTO Meeting At Memorial School

3/21- World Down Syndrome Day

3/24- Early Dismissal Day

3/26- Touch A Truck community Event

3/31- Cheetah Pride Assembly

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, 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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