Pierce School Weekly Newsletter

If you haven't scheduled a conference with your student's classroom teacher, please reach out to the teacher directly. You can schedule either an in-person conference, or a virtually conference, whichever is better for your schedule, we can accomodate either with Google Meet.

Kindergarten - Ms. D'Agostino - mdagostino@conval.edu

First Grade - Mrs. Stockhaus - mstockhaus@conval.edu

Second Grade - Mrs. Powell - apowell@conval.edu

Third Grade - Ms. Sutton - jsutton@conval.edu

Fourth Grade - Mrs. Germain - vgermain@conval.edu

If you would like any additional teachers present at your family/teacher conference, we will try to accomodate that as well, just make a request about who you would like present. Some additions are Mrs. Pope to represent Title I, Mr. Russell to represent Special Education, Mrs. Bradshaw to represent Special Education, or Ms. Hansen-Proulx to represent Administration. We hope you are able to discuss your student's progress so far this year, strengths in school, and areas for growth. Have a great conference!

We are excited to announce that demolition on our old playground will begin this Monday, 11/4! We ask that families please do not park in our school parking lot this week, since we will be using the parking lot for construction, and a giant dumpster will be present during the construction of our new playground! We hope for the playground construction to be finished by the end of the week!

During this time, students will have indoor Walking Club in the mornings, and alternative recess during the day, but will not be permitted on the playground to keep students safe during the construction phase. We also ask that the community refrain from using the playground areas during this time for your own safety. We are so excited to be able to use the new playground, and our hope is that it only takes a week.

We will share pictures and updates as time goes on! Thank you for all of your support to get us to this point, it is going to be incredible for all of the kids!

Monday, 11/4 - Playground Construction Begins (No Parking in School Parking Lot, please)

Monday, 11/4 - Picture Retake Day, Students K-4 - 8:30 - 11:30

Tuesday, 11/5 - Teacher/Family Conference Day - No School for Students (Conference times scheduled with each teacher)

Friday, 11/8 - Cornucopia Cooking Club for 3rd & 4th Graders - 3:30 to 4:30 Begins (Registration Required)

Coming Up:

Monday, 11/11 - Veteran's Day, No School

Tuesday, 11/12 - Art to Remember Order Deadline - See below for more information

Wednesday, 11/13 - PTO Meeting - 6:00 - 7:00 PM - All are welcome!

Friday, 11/15 - 4th Grader Walking Field Trip to GEP Library - 2:15 PM to 3:00 PM

One more week before this wonderful club opens at Pierce School! This club is a great opportunity for 3rd and 4th graders to learn more cooking tricks and tips with the Cornucopia Program after school! Register for a week, or for the entire program. We hope each student who is interested will register, please reach out if you are interested or need a partial scholarship, we can help!

Congratulations to our Golden Spoon luncheon winners for the week ending on 11.1.24! Every week, students who demonstrate expectated behaviors in the lunchroom from Monday to Thursday are invited to a special lunch on the stage and receive a golden spoon as the invitation, for doing the right thing at lunch through the week.

Expected behaviors in the lunchroom:

• Raise a quiet hand to get up or get something
• Keep a low level voice, not yelling
  
• When a teacher says, "Show 5", students stop talking, focus attention on the teacher, and put a high five in the air to show they are listening to directions
• Sit at the table to eat lunch and have a safe body at the table

These are the expected behaviors that will earn students a golden spoon invitation to a decorated table on the stage on Fridays. A different teacher will sign up to host the luncheon each Friday. We hope all students will attend the Golden Spoon Luncheon!

Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. There are over 60 products and many are less than $20. These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school.

Click on the link below and enter the online order code shown on your child's order form or to search for your child's artwork. Then, have fun shopping!

https://arttoremember.com/school/ZBW6SA

Order deadline: November 12th

If you are interested in having a table at the Craft Fair this year, please reach out to either Tanisha Lowell or Alisha Hansen-Proulx and we can get you on the list as a vendor. It's a great fundraiser for our school, with lots of traffic coming through, and a food court!

This year, we are hoping this will also serve as our Ribbon Cutting Event for the new Pierce School Playground being installed, too! Everyone is welcome, come get some holiday festivus!