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Families,

Please let it be over!!! Our parking lots can’t handle another flake! This week’s wild weather has resulted in the need for a flexible spirit, and MANY rescheduled meetings and events. Thank you for your continued patience as we work to catch up, and ensure the safety of our school community. We are looking forward to welcoming all of you into the building next week for Parent/Teacher conferences. Don’t forget to stop by the Scholastic Book Fair while you’re here!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Joey & Andrea

Monday, March 2nd, is School Volunteer Appreciation Day! Thank you to the many community volunteers who show up and make a difference at Memorial School every day! We appreciate you!

In recognition of the amazing Winter Olympics, our fantastic athletes put their best efforts into their own Olympic Games.

Meet Brielle.

Her teacher is Mrs. Hennessey.

She is special because she cheers for the hawks.

One of her favorite things is her dog.

She wanted to be on cheetah council to help with the school.

She loves her teachers at the school.

3/2 School Volunteer Appreciation Day

3/2 Scholastic Book Fair Begins

3/2 Read Across America Day

3/4&3/5 Early Release For Parent Teacher Conferences

3/6 Student School Day

3/9 Board of ED

3/16 PTO at Memorial

3/23 Board of ED

3/27 Early Dismissal Professional Learning

3/28 Touch a Truck

PE Newsletter, February 2026

Hi everybody!

The first couple weeks of February we finished up our beachball volleyball skills unit, a big favorite with the students!

We always begin class with our usual fitness component and our warmups with stretching and exercises. We were busy having some fun with the beachballs, practicing our skills and cooperative skills with activities with a partner(s). Then after a couple weeks we moved to the nets (adjusted appropriately to the grade of our classes). Our older grades also did modified games with the option to also do the "serving club" as one of our assessments.

Towards the middle of February we transitioned to one of our "stations unit" and will continue with that unit for about two weeks, taking us up the beginning of March.

Some of the stations we offered were:

• Pickleball skills

• Ice cream/snow cones

• Tic tac toe targets (with bean bags)

• "Click it" hand held eye- hand coordination equipment

• Spinning plates

• Basketball shooting

• Long and short jump ropes

• Hula hoops

• Rock climbing wall

• Jumping sticks

• Stacking cups

• Volleyball play at the net

After our stations unit, our younger grades will try their skill at modified shuffleboard skills games and a hockey shooting area (thanks to our Gold Medal winning women's and men's Olympic Hockey Teams!), as well as other new stations as space allows.

Our older grades will move into our badminton skills and games/shuffleboard/fitness lab equipment rotations for 3 weeks.

The gym is always a busy place, it will be extra busy with a lot of coordination and cooperation on the students part for everything to take place at once like a "well oiled machine", but the classes always do a great job and really like this unit!

Just fyi, the students are starting to ask "when is gymnastics?". Gymnastics is our longest unit, and probably our "fan favorite" among the students. Our gymnastics unit begins when the students return back from April vacation and runs for 6 weeks with the last week our cargo net climbing portion.

A blast from the past for our parents who went to elementary school here at Memorial School: do any of you remember doing the rope climbing unit and Indiana Jones Obstacle Course we used to do many, many years ago? We still have a lot of "ex-student/present parents" ask about those two units when we see them at open house and parent conferences, hard to forget them, the "good old days"!

Have a great March and hopefully no more snow storms and days off!

Coach Ruel

Coach Boscarino

March 2-6 is National School Breakfast Week! Begin your Quest with a healthy breakfast. Students who eat breakfast are able to maintain focus and perform better in school than those who skip this important meal. We look forward to seeing you in the Cafeteria!

When considering the number of absences your student has accrued, keep in mind that a student must be present for 195 minutes in order for the day to count! When bringing your student in late, or signing them out early if they have not been in school for a 195 minutes the day will be recorded as an absence.

Memorial School Attendance email:

memorial_attendance@easthamptonct.org * there is an _ between memorial and attendance!

Please Review This Important Information Below.

Students, parents, and community members have access to an anonymous tip line on the front page of the school district website to report self-concerns, mental health concerns of a friend, or concerns of violence. Simply click here or view on the website: https://www.easthamptonps.org/.

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