ePack #14

Dear Families:

Thank you very much for attending parent-teacher conferences today.  I hope you found your meetings informative.  I know our staff worked hard to prepare for these important conversations.  I hope you were able to pick up a Student Handbook receipt page on the table as you entered the building.  Please return that page with your signature as soon as possible.  If you did not grab a receipt, it is posted in today's ePack.

If you requested hard copies at the beginning of the year, you may have received your handbook and receipt today or you will get it tomorrow.

Friday, December 11th:  Please remember we have another early dismissal at 11:30 a.m. for Full Day Kindergarten - Grade 5 due to the second day of conferences.  If your child attends half-day morning kindergarten or half-day afternoon kindergarten, there is no school.  

Report Card Envelopes:  Kindly return the yellow report card envelopes to school with your signature.  Thanks!

Mrs. Picini's Grade 4 Classroom:  Mrs. Picini's classroom is become an integrated classroom in the very near future.  An integrated classroom is a classroom with a higher number of students on Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) than a "typical" classroom. Our integrated classrooms have one regular education teacher and one special education teacher.  I will be interviewing and hiring a special education teacher for this classroom once the December 16th job posting is over.  

Skype Morning Announcements:  We are at the beginning stages of doing our morning announcements via Skype.  We have trialed this with a few classrooms over the past few weeks and we had a few glitches.  I am meeting with the Technology Director, Lynn Wiegel, tomorrow to problem solve. Stay tuned!

5th Grade Field Trip:  Please remember that our 5th graders will be visiting the Boston Museum of Science on Wednesday, December 16th.  

Enrichment Programs:  Please note the updated enrichment program list prepared by Katie Ramm in today's ePack.  

Lunch Accounts:  Thanks to Cafeteria Manager, Meredith Fortier, for attending last night's PTO meeting to answer questions about the My School Bucks lunch program.  Please note the postings in today's ePack.  

That's all for now.  Let's hope for a Patriot win this weekend!  

Mr. Gaudette