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Dear Families,

We began our first week of November with a cozy start! Students enjoyed coming to school Monday in their pajamas! On Tuesday, staff strengthened their skills during a day of professional learning. This month during announcements we are discussing gratitude and how students can use their imagination. Enjoy your weekend. The time change will bring an extra hour of rest for all of us!

Best,

Joey and Andrea

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

At Memorial School students are working on using their imagination! This month, we are encouraging children to think outside the box, create, wonder and explore. Imagination is defined as the process of forming a mental picture of something that is not present. Here are a few ideas of how you can foster your child's imagination at home:

• explore new ideas
• practice problem solving
• plan and test ideas
• learn through trial and error
• take risks
• learn to accept failure and try again

Linked is an article from Parenting Magazine with, 10 Ways to Fire Your Child's imagination

https://www.parenting.com/activities/kids/10-easy-ways-to-fire-your-childs-imagination-21354373/

Hi Cheetah families!

It has been a busy month in the Memorial School library! Students have been practicing their library skills each week and are becoming more independent library users. We have a book fair coming up at the end of November, more information to follow.

See below for grade level classroom expectations.

● PreK students are enjoying a variety of read-alouds and songs with the themes of friendship and gratitude. We have been having fun with a new round of rhymes, including a student favorite, “popcorn”.

● Kindergarten is working on discussing the relationship between illustrations and text. We have read “Go Away Big Green Monster” and “The Story of Fish and Snail” to aid in this discussion.

● First grade is finishing their introduction to Digital Citizenship. We have talked about what the internet is and what kinds of things we can do with the internet. The message of these lessons has been that using the internet is a big responsibility and we need adult supervision when using it. Next we will begin some activities with the theme of gratitude and connection centered around Peter Reynold’s book, Our Table.

● Second grade is in the middle of their unit on digital citizenship. They are learning about the types of information that are safe to put online versus what is unsafe. We have learned that we should never share our username/passwords, birthday, school, or address online. Most classes are working their way through Google’s game, Interland, and are really enjoying it. All classes will also be finishing up the 2022 Nutmeg Nominee, Mega Bat, this month.

● Third grade is finishing their unit on digital citizenship. They have reviewed the types of information that is safe to put online versus what is unsafe. They have discussed how to create a safe and strong username. We are now beginning our coding unit, using a new program called Code Monkey. All classes will also be finishing up the 2022 Nutmeg Nominee, Mega Bat, this month.

For more information and updates, make sure to check out the library website at https://sites.google.com/site/centermemoriallibrary/.

Questions, contact Mrs. Flannery at rflannery@easthamptonct.org.

Mrs. Flannery and Mrs. Hill

As caregivers, when your student is presenting with symptoms, it can be difficult to know when to keep them home. If your student is presenting with any of the symptoms below, please err on the side of caution and keep your child home from school:

Fever of 100.4 or higher (fever free for at least 24 hours without medication)

Chills

Sore throat

Coughing, shortness of breath, trouble breathing

Diarrhea

Vomiting

Rash

Eye infection

Distracting pain

Loss of taste or smell

Any close contact with an individual positive with Covid (if your child is tested, please remain home until you receive the results and also provide a copy of the results to school)

If you are not sure about any illness symptoms, it is best to consult your doctor. We appreciate your assistance in keeping our students and staff safe and healthy as we continue to navigate these difficult times. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns! Thank you!

Thank you to Mrs. Flannery for organizing this amazing event, and Belltown motors for generously covering the shipping costs! Memorial School collected 100 pounds of candy that will be shipped out this afternoon to our troops! Thank you to all the students and families that kindly donated candy! We are going to have some very Happy Troops!

Daylight Savings This Weekend - Don't forget to change your clocks!

11/11- Veteran's Day - No School

11/24- Early Release

11/25 & 11/26- Thanksgiving Break

11/29- Scholastic Book Fair!

• This week, 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
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ehmemorialschool