Notes from Eddy

Hello Eddy Families,

Read Across America Spirit Week was a huge success! Thank you for encouraging your students to participate and show their literacy school spirit! We saw great shirts on Friday, mystery readers on Tuesday from Nauset Regional High School, crazy hair and hats, amazing characters, and cozy pajamas! To continue our focus on literacy, we are holding our Scholastic Book Fair this week! Thank you to Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Lister for their hard work and energy to make this a reality! 50% of proceeds come back to Eddy Elementary School to help us purchase more books for our library. Students may purchase books this week as follows:

• Monday-Friday, 7:30-8:00am
• Monday-Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm
• Thursday, 2:00-6:00pm
• Friday, 11:30am-3:00pm
• During library class this week
  

Students may purchase items with cash or with an e-wallet, which can be set up here. Grown-ups may use cash, credit, or debit card to make a purchase. Additionally, if you would like to donate towards "Share The Fair," funds donated here will be used for students who are unable to purchase a book. No donation is too small. Thank you for your consideration!

We are excited to welcome Sustainable CAPE's Meet The Farmer Program to Eddy Elementary School this week! On Monday and Tuesday, a local farmer will meet with each class for 30 minutes in the cafeteria to:

1. plant their own seeds in a covered container to take home to grow;
2. meet and learn about growing food from a local farmer;
3. create and taste a nutritional smoothie using the day's featured crop: pea tendril smoothie.

This week is also Spring Conferences! You should have received an invitation directly from your student's classroom teacher withs signup information. I encourage you to attend, as this is another opportunity to keep the lines of communication open between home and school.

Finally, this Friday @ 9:45-10:45am is the Boosterthon Fun Run! If you have not yet registered your student, please do so at: https://mybooster.com/v3 and clicking the blue "I'm a parent/guardian" button. This is the PTO's biggest fundraiser each year, which helps fund field trips, enrichment, and student and teacher activities and events. If you do not want to register your student, you may donate here towards the PTO at the general fundraising page: https://give.mybooster.com/stony-brookeddy-elementary-1. Kindly share this link with family and friends! Like last year, if our two schools collectively raise $20,000, I will cut my hair as a mohawk (and this year, leave it for a few days 😁).

The fifth grade is hosting a Family Bingo Night on Wednesday, March 25 from 6-7pm at Eddy, and all are welcome to attend! We invite you to attend, and consider a donation at the door to help us raise funds for our fifth grade class trip.

This week, report cards go home on Wednesday, 3/18 and we have an early release on Friday, 3/20 @ 11am for conferences.

Finally, please make note of the the Brewster Elementary Schools FY27 Public Budget Hearing on Monday, 3/16 @ 6:30pm at Brewster Town Hall and online via Zoom.

Here's to a great week of learning at Eddy Elementary School!

Best,

Steve Guditus

Eddy Elementary Principal and Lead Learner

Mrs. Shevory's students pied All-Star Alyssa in the face on Friday for having the most donations on Friday morning! We will continue to have pep rallies at lunch each day with Boosterthon, and your student should have come home with a lanyard last week for kickoff. Don't forget that you can create a personalized fundraiser page for your student at http://mybooster.com, or share the general donation page here: https://give.mybooster.com/stony-brookeddy-elementary-1. The Fun Run is Friday @ 9:45-10:45 at Eddy, and all family members are invited to cheer on your student! If the weather forces us inside on Friday, we will have shortened grade-level runs in the gym, and I will update you with a new schedule if that is the case...otherwise, we will see you on Friday morning @ 9:45am on the Eddy soccer field! (The Stony Brook K-2 run is Friday 8:45-9:45am at Stony Brook.)

The fifth grade is hosting a Family Bingo Night on Wednesday, March 25 from 6-7pm! All are welcome to attend! At the door, we kindly invite you to consider a donation towards our Fifth Grade Class Trip to Boston. All are welcome - please share with others!

Start here: Eddy Elementary Book Fair homepage—available three weeks before your Fair begins—to set up an eWallet for each child for every Fair, then:

1. Sign in or create a new Scholastic account
2. Select “Create an eWallet”
3. Choose “I’m a parent…”
4. Add funds and/or invite family and friends to add money to your child’s eWallet

eWallet funds are available immediately and you can add additional money, create an eWallet for another child, and more, in the eWallet section of your Scholastic account.

Would you like to help out with Teacher Appreciation Week in May? This is a one-time volunteer opportunity if you are looking to help out on a small scale. If so, please email the PTO at BrewsterPTO@gmail.com. Thank you!

The FY27 Public Budget Hearing will occur tomorrow night, Monday, 3/16/26 at 6:30pm. At Thursday evening's Brewster School Committee meeting, the school committee made a motion to add two paraeducator positions back into the Eddy budget, bringing the FY27 budget proposal to a 4.58% increase, up from the prior 3.86% where it sat last week. All are invited to attend the Public Budget Hearing on the FY27 budget either at Brewster Town Hall or via Zoom here. This is an opportunity to provide any input you have on the budget to Brewster School Committee on Zoom or in person.

Here are the relevant FY27 Budget documents that will be discussed at Monday evening's meeting at 6:30pm:

• FY 27 Budget Presentation - Slides
• FY 27 Eddy Budget
• FY 27 Stony Budget

Wear green on Tuesday, March 17 for our Wear Green Spirit Day!

Congratulations to our three Eddy R.E.A.D.Y. award winners this past week! Congratulations to Will, Finn, and Mac for demonstrating our school's core values of Respect, Empathy, Accountability, Determination, and Your Best! We are proud of all our students who earned green cards this past week!

Eddy Elementary MCAS dates for this spring (April and May) can be found here: 2026 MCAS Dates. All students take two ELA sessions and two math sessions, and fifth graders also take two STE (science, technology, and engineering) sessions. Sessions are untimed and students have until the end of the day to complete the MCAS session if needed. Students who miss a session of MCAS will make it up on the designated makeup days. Typically, most students finish in about a 2.5 hour time span, during which we break for a stretch break, bathroom break, and snack.

MCAS gives our teachers and school one additional way to understand how students are developing important academic skills. They are just one part of the many ways we learn about student progress, alongside classroom work, projects, and teacher observations. Our goal is for testing to feel like a typical day of school, where students are encouraged to take their time, think carefully, and show what they know. Families can help by keeping routines consistent during testing days, ensuring children get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, and arrive at school feeling calm and ready for the day. As always, our focus is on supporting every student's growth and love of learning.

The Nauset Regional School District's Farm to School Program is always exploring innovative and creative ways to support student access to fresh, local foods, hands-on nutrition education, outdoor learning spaces like school gardens, field trip opportunities, and more. We’re excited to share that Nauset Farm to School has been selected as a partner in the Stop & Shop Community Bag Program for March 2026!

Throughout the month of March, the NPSD Farm to School Program will receive a $1 donation for every reusable Community Bag purchased at the Stop & Shop located at 24 Route 6A in Orleans, MA. Community participation helps support Farm to School initiatives across the district.

To learn more about the Nauset Regional School District's Farm to School Program, please visit the NRSD Farm to School webpage. Thank you for your continued support!

Report cards will be coming home on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 in your student's backpack. Please reach out directly to your student's teacher if you have questions or concerns. Conferences are scheduled for the next two days, the afternoon/evening of Thursday, March 19, 2026 and afternoon of Friday, March 20, 2026. Your student's teacher will contact you directly regarding the conference schedule.

For those parents/caregivers whose students have an IEP: Given the missed week due to snow, we are going to use the following timeline for Term 2 special education progress notes for all students on an IEP:

• Staff will be collecting data through March 13 and then complete progress notes by March 20.
• Special Education progress notes will be mailed home by March 27. This timeline will allow for data collection beyond just the week after 2 weeks away from school (vacation and the blizzard).

See below. If you know any Brewster resident whose child will be 5 by August 31, 2026, please pass this flyer along to them and let them know they can register their child for Kindergarten using the directions below. Families may call Stony Brook at 508-896-4545 x0 with any questions about Kindergarten registration. Thank you for your help!

Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod is building two new homes in Brewster- 1 two-bedroom home, and 1 three-bedroom home. Applications are due March 31, 2026, and are available at Town Hall in the Planning Department or at Brewster Ladies Library. The creation of these homes is supported by Brewster Community Preservation Act and Affordable Housing Trust funding.

Online fillable applications can be found here: Habitat for Humanity’s Homeownership Application.

There will also be two local in person workshops on:

• Tuesday, February 24th, 4:45 – 6:30 PM: Brewster Ladies Library, 1882 Main Street
• Saturday, March 14th, 10:30 AM – 12 PM: Brewster Ladies Library, 1882 Main Street

For more information on income eligibility, pricing, and the application process, please see the attached flyers and go to: https://habitatcapecod.org/to-apply-for-a-home/ or contact Habitat for Humanity at 508-362-3559 x121.

If you have any questions about Brewster community housing, feel free to contact me.

Warm regards,

Jenny

Jennifer Shaw

Housing Program Assistant

Town of Brewster

2198 Main Street, Brewster, MA 02631

508-896-3701 ext. 1172

• Monday, March 16: Brewster School Committee Budget Public Hearing @ 6:30pm (Zoom link here)
• Monday-Friday, March 16-March 20: Scholastic Book Fair
• Tuesday, March 17: Wear Green Spirit Day!
• Thursday, March 19: Afternoon/Evening Conferences
• Friday, March 20: Boosterthon Fun Run, 9:45-10:45am, Eddy Soccer Field
• Friday, March 20: Early Release @ 11am with Conferences in Afternoon
• Wednesday, March 25: Eddy Family BINGO Night @ 6-7pm