Some of the take aways from last week's Anxious Generation Parent Book Discussion Group include the importance of working to build responsibility, independence, resiliency, and confidence in our children. Try not to do for your child what they can and should be doing for themselves. Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child. This can be done with some simple changes - help your child set an alarm to wake up and get ready for school, let them pack their own bags for school, check out Letgrow.com for ideas and sign up for the Independence Kit for ideas.
We had planned to have a Community Meeting on Monday, November 18th, but the new bleachers are being installed in the gym so we won't be able to accommodate the community. Our next meeting will be on December 16th at 2:30pm.
I have some staffing updates to share with the community. Mrs. Pegurri, building aide, took a full time teaching position in Brockton. We wish her all the best in her new role! We are currently hiring a new building aide. If you or someone you know might be interested in this position, please apply on the Norwell Schools website. Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Julie Badger to Cole School as a new special education aide. Exciting news to share - Mrs. Rinkus, grade 4 teacher, is expecting her first baby this coming April.
We are always looking for substitutes for teachers, aides, and nurses. Substituting offers flexible scheduling, allowing one to work on available days and at selected levels or schools. We even have half day spots to fill! If you or someone you know is interested, please apply at the Norwell Schools website.
Having an opportunity to get outside for physical education class, kindergarteners and first graders practiced their soccer skills at four different stations. They included dribbling around cones, kicking a soccer ball at a net defended by a goalie, 3 step hard kick at a pin and passing and trapping with a partner. Grades 3-5 started their soccer unit playing multiple games outside.
Kindergarten worked on 5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate. They learned how to sponge paint pumpkins and glue on a gate.
Third Grade Learned how to draw a fall tree with a tire swing and fence. They combined oil pastels, paper, paint and drawing all in the same project.
Fourth Grade learned how to draw a pumpkin from a birds eye view. They learned how to place the paint by how the sunlight hits the pumpkin.
November
November 25 - Puppet Show enrichment for kindergarten (Thank you, PTO!)
November 26 - Plimoth Patuxet Visitors to Grade 3 enrichment (Thank you, PTO!)
November 27 - Early Release 12:20pm
November 28 - NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Day
November 29 - NO SCHOOL
Upcoming Dates
December 7 - PTO Winter Fair 9-12pm
