Green Meadow Weekly Update

Principal, Karen Lindquist - klindquist@maynard.k12.ma.us

Assistant Principal, Kate Murray - kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Kathy Sullivan - ksullivan@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Nancy Dangelo - ndangelo@maynard.k12.ma.us

School Nurse, Maria Bourgeois - mbourgeois@maynard.k12.ma.us

Main Office Line - (978) 897-8246

Absentee Phone Line - (978)897-0310

9/25 - School Picture Day, information below

9/26 - Back to School Night for Parents and Caregivers, 6:00 - 7:30

9/26 - GM PTO Meeting, 7:30, Green Meadow Cafeteria - Please join us!

9/27 - Early Release Day, GM dismissal 11:45 AM, No PreK

9/27 - Black and Orange Day at Green Meadow!

10/18 - Early Release Day, GM dismissal 11:45 AM, No PreK

10/19 - PTO Pumpkin Palooza Family Event, more details to come

10/25 - Early Release Day, GM dismissal 11:45 AM, No PreK

10/25 - Parent Conferences, Teachers will share a schedule

10/31 - Green Meadow Autumn Walk, 8:45 AM

11/5 - Election Day, No School for Students, Staff PD day

11/8 - Green Meadow Veteran's Day Breakfast

4/8 - 4/9 - Grade 3 ELA MCAS testing

5/6 - 5/7 - Grade 3 Math MCAS testing

Green Meadow's School Picture Day is Wednesday, September 25!

Picture order forms will be coming home in backpack in Thursday, September 19, or families may order photos directly by visiting https://vando.imagequix.com/294339Z and entering the code: 94224FI.

The Green Meadow Back to School Night is scheduled for Thursday, September 26, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM. It is an opportunity for parents and caregivers to meet staff, learn about curriculum, visit with other community members, and attend our first PTO meeting.

Back to School Night Schedule

• This year it will be held on Thursday, September 26

• 6:00 - 6:30 - Grades PreK, K & 1

• 6:30 - 6:45 - Welcome by Karen Lindquist and Kate Murray

• 6:45 - 7:15 - Grades 2 & 3

• Representatives from SEPAC, the Maynard Building Committee, the GMS PTO, and others will be present that evening in the cafeteria.

• Specialists can be available in classrooms for parent/guardian visits.

September is Lice Prevention Month.

Head lice are a common occurrence among school-age children. Head lice are spread through direct contact with or sharing personal items with someone who already has them. Please remind your children how important it is not to share hats, combs, brushes, headbands, hair elastics, helmets etc….

With the knowledge that children have sleepovers, parties, and play dates, it’s recommended that you periodically check your child’s hair for any signs of head lice. It is best to do a head check in natural sunlight. Head lice are small, brown insects, no larger than the size of a sesame seed, that live and feed on the human scalp. Nits are tiny, whitish ovals that are firmly glued to the hair shaft usually close to the scalp. Often they are located at the nape of the neck, behind the ears and at the crown of the head, but they can be found anywhere on the head. Please review the CDC's guidance on treating your child for head lice

Per the CDC Guidelines, students should not be excluded from school for having lice. However, we ask that you please inform your school nurse if your child does have a confirmed case of lice so that additional measures can be taken to help ensure effective treatment.

For more information, please check out the following:

Controlling Head Lice & Reducing Stigma

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Best,

"Nurse Ria"

We had our Green Meadow Blast Party this week to celebrate the new school and learn about the process of breaking up the rock behind our school building to make way for the next phase of the construction. With the help of many staff members, we read the book, If I Built a School, by Chris VanDusen, and then learned about the job of being a blaster and how they keep things safe. Members of the construction crew participated, answering questions from the students about the process. The photo below features members of the construction crew and our Team Chair, Katie Chagnon.

The projected date for beginning the blasting is September 30. We will share information from Northern Construction outlining the process with families next week.

Click on the link to read the lastest school lunch menu options: https://www.fdmealplanner.com/

Calling All New Families - Check out our PTO website and join our email list to stay on top of news and events. We can't wait for you to get involved!

https://greenmeadowpto.membershiptoolkit.com/

The first PTO Meeting will be in-person at Green Meadow School, on September 26, immediately following the Back to School Night schedule.

ELPAC (English Learner Parent Advisory Council) Resources

SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) Resources

Multilingual Learner Resources

Please find the flyer attached that can be included in any school communications/parent/principal newsletters now through the end of September. Feel free to use any combination of the flyer with or without any of the text below.

Maynard’s 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment is now open! Take this survey to help inform future priorities.

The survey in English is available here: https://forms.office.com/g/cjJf6CzSRa

Responda a encuesta en español aquí: https://forms.office.com/g/1K6434KZUP

Responda a esta pesquisa em português aqui: https://forms.office.com/g/bpppMqj8wr

Pran sondaj sa an kreyòl ayisyen isit la: https://forms.office.com/g/BdpisqV91V

The Open Table Food Pantry (www.opentable.org; 33 Main St, Maynard) is open on Tuesdays, 3:30 - 6:30 PM and Thursdays, 1 - 4:30 PM and offers free bags of groceries 1x/week. Open Table also allows families to pick up frozen meals for family members weekly.

The Maynard Food Pantry (www.maynardfoodpantry.com; 82 Main St., Maynard) is open on Mondays from 10 AM - 12 noon 1-2x/month

The Maynard Food Pantry offers a weekly Backpack Program for all students in PreK-Grade 5 that aims to offer food assistance to families. Each backpack is filled with nutritious, non-perishable food at no cost. Forms were sent home to families in backpacks last week. If you need a form, they are available in the Green Meadow main office. You can also request one by emailing Kate Murray at kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us.

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