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Dear Families,

Andrea and I are wishing you a wonderful holiday season. We hope the break from routines is filled with things that bring you joy. We are looking forward to welcoming your students back to school in 2022. Happy New Year! May it be filled with good health.

Best,

Joey & Andrea

Memorial Models are chosen weekly by their teacher and have excelled all week in taking care of themselves, others, and things.

The children continue to thrive on many new and exciting activities. They work hard with our classroom expectations of improving their fitness, flexibility and upper body strength. All of our classes include stretching, exercises, and body strength activities followed by jogging for 4-7 minutes depending on their grade. This month our skill component was basketball.

The Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st graders worked on catching, passing, dribbling and shooting using a basketball or rubber ball. During shooting practice, baskets are lowered to a height children are able to reach while still using correct technique .All skill work is age appropriate.

Second and third graders also completed a basketball unit with skills and activities increased in difficulty depending on their age. Proper technique of dribbling, passing and shooting were taught. The basic rules, safety practices and procedures were also explained. Skills performed were

DRIBBLING - Both stationary and moving - right hand, left hand and crossovers.

PASSING - Chest, bounce and overhead passes.

SHOOTING - Proper technique and introduction of shooting games including Make it take it, Around the World and Horse.

We are very impressed with the children’s improvement and attitude. They should feel very PROUD OF THEMSELVES!!

Coach Boscarino and Coach Ruel

The arrival of wintertime brings so much inspiration to our little artists! Happy Holidays to you and yours, and may your winter break be rejuvenating, restful, and filled with love!!

Below you will find the classroom expectations for art classes during the month of December:

Prek-K

Evergreen tree stencils to make a “Winter Wonderland”: learning about ZIG ZAG lines

Pop out Evergreen paper sculptures: learning about bending paper to make it 3D

Abstract Line Paintings: learning about the qualities of Abstract Art

Snowflake making: learning about folding paper and cutting to create symmetrical designs

Grade 1

Weaving: making real world connections with art, observing actual woven string, creating a loom, and weaving paper strips. Pattern (over, under, over, under).

Family Portraits: Learning how to draw a human form without sticks/spaghetti noodles. Observing realistic shapes for our arms and legs. Exploring the word “family” and recognizing that there are many different types of families. Learning to use art to reflect things that are important to us.

Grade 2

Final preparations for their original collaborative plays (performances will be the week we return to school after winter break, inspired by “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. If your child is interested in wearing something as a “costume” to enhance their mask and performance, feel free to send it into school in their backpacks, they can put their costumes/outfits on before their performances. I will be video recording these performances to share out afterwards. We are so excited to culminate this sculpture/interdisciplinary unit with a final performance!

Grade 3

Watercolor painting a scarecrow landscape: learning about foreground, middle ground, and background. Learning about scale, space, and depth.

Building a paper origami box: learning about precision folding and following sequential directions

Snowflake making: learning about a new way to fold and cut a snowflake to turn out like a dendrite snowflake (the prettiest and most patterned snowflakes that fall from the sky).

GREAT NEWS! 10 art classes have already begun painting their “kindness rocks”!!! Over break if you haven’t sent a rock in with your child, please look for a PALM SIZED rock (no bigger) to send into school after break.Thank you!

Art to remember was a huge success! Thank you so very much to all of the families who have purchased from our art fundraiser, we earn 30% of the profits for our schools art program!! It is crucial in supplying materials to our art program! Memorial School and I are so grateful for your support!

Congratulations to our Artists of the Month for October and November:

After many years serving the Memorial School Community, Ms. Nancy is sailing off into retirement. Soon, she will be enjoying the Florida sunshine. Best Wishes!! We love you! ❤

Parents/guardians,

*Please bring in an extra set of seasonally appropriate clothing for your child to keep at school. The occasional accident happens and if your child has their own clothing we know that it will fit them and that they will be comfortable.

*With the colder weather here, please make sure your child also has a coat, gloves and a hat labeled with their names. The nurse's office has very limited clothing to spare in case a change or spare is needed.

*We also ask that you bring a labeled water bottle for your child and they can fill it up throughout the day in the water filling stations as needed.

*Preschool students are required to show proof of vaccination against the flu by December 31st. If you have not done so already, please provide documentation of immunization to the school as soon as possible. We appreciate your assistance,

Nurse Katie and Miss Michelle

Winter may have just begun, but it is never to early to register for Little League!

East Hampton Little League will be moving to a new website as of January 1, 2022. You can follow the link below or find the link in the attached instructions. Although registration will not open until Jan 1st, we would love for you to create an account so that we can contact you via email with registration reminders and what not.

If you or somebody you know can't afford registration fees or equipment please reach out to me at ehllpres@gmail.com, we have resources to help. If a child is not playing baseball or softball this year it won't be because they couldn't afford it.

Happy Holidays from your friends at the EHLL!

https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/default.aspx?portalid=53644

12/24 -1/2/22- Winter Break

1/1- New Year's Day

1/2 -Welcome back to School

1/17- Martin Luther King Day ( No School)

• The Connecticut General Assembly gave the Governor authority to extend Executive Orders through February 15, 2022. Executive Order No. 9, Section 1, and Executive Order No. 13A, provides the authority to require masks in schools, childcare facilities, and certain higher-risk settings, as well as providing municipal authority to require universal masking in certain settings.
• If a student is quarantined, asynchronous assignments will be provided and communicated by your student's teacher.
• Volunteers and guest speakers are welcomed in the building. All volunteers and guest speakers who enter classrooms, hallways, or other areas where children are located will be required to be vaccinated or submit testing results upon entering the school.

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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