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Important Dates:
April 4th-8th:
Spring Book Fair
Smart Balance Assessments
Grade 3-5
April 6th:
Early Release
April 7th:
Barnes and Noble Night
Rescheduled!
April 18th-22nd:
April Break
April 25th: No School
April 25th-29th:
Jump Rope for Heart
In this issue:
Look for the Good I-III
Live Oaks Doing Good IV
News You Can Use IV
Superintendent’s Awards V
Spelling Bee Finalists VI
April 1, 2016 Volume 2016, Issue 25
Live Oaks School
575 Merwin Avenue
Milford, CT 06460
(203) 783-3564
Rose Marzinotto Bonnie Etense
Principal Teacher Leader
What an inspiring couple of weeks! Last week we wrapped up our two week gratitude campaign here at Live Oaks! If you’ve visited our school recently, you proba-bly noticed that our gratitude wall quickly filled up and new walls were created all over the school.
Our Look for the Good Project was more than just practicing daily gratitude. “You Matter” cards were shared within our community and passed on as the card holder wished. Students also wrote a You Matter letter to an im-portant person in their life.
We celebrated with an all school assembly Monday afternoon. All of our staff wore YOU MATTER shirts and several students were selected to share a gratitude Post-It and receive t-shirts.
Have a story to share about how the Look for the Good Project impacted your student or family? Please email Mrs. Etense at [email protected]. We’d love
to hear from you! ♥
Live Oaks School
Connections
News You Can Use
Smarter Balance Assessments Began
SBA assessments began on Tuesday for students in grades 3-5.
Scheduled testing will be complete next week. Please continues to en-
courage your students to get plenty of rest, eat a healthy breakfast and
get to school on time.
Where in Live Oaks…? Each week, ONE random winner will be drawn from all correct entries. Enter to win by replying to the
email in which you received this newsletter or to: [email protected]
Your student’s name
Teacher’s name
Correctly identify the item
Answer “Where in Live Oaks?”
Identify this item and tell where in
LOS it is located!
Last Week’s Winner:
Cooper F. Mrs. Bagley’s Class Live Oaks Tree of students in 5th grade hallway next to media center
Spring Book Fair: Volunteers Still
Needed
The spring book fair will be held April 4th-April
8th. In order to make our book fair a success, we
need volunteers to help out! Please consider vol-
unteering your time. Sign Up HERE!
Superintendent’s Award Recipients Fifth Graders Joseph Gaetano and Venice Montanaro awarded the
2015-2016 Superintendent’s Award for Live Oaks School!
Dear Families,
It was a pleasure to award two fifth grade students with the Connecticut Super-intendent’s Award on Wednesday evening at Jonathan Law. These students represent all of our students at Live Oaks School by showing that hard work, determination, and
kindness pay off. Our grade 3-5 students are showing their perseverance and endurance during the SBA testing this week and next. I encourage them to do their best and I tell them that I believe in them. I truly know that positive reminders from an adult that cares
about them can make a big difference in their performance. You can help them from home by making sure that they have a good night’s sleep and a nutritious breakfast each morning before coming to school. Also, give them your words of encourage-
ment about their testing. Let them know that they should try their best and that they have been learning everything they need to know to take this test throughout their school experience.
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Mrs. M.
From the Principal’s Desk
5th Grade Spelling Bee Winners!
Pictured: Justin G, Violet W., Bee Master Marzinotto, Joey C., and Arianna F.
Finalists: Justin G and Arianna F. Runners Up: Violet W. and Joey C.
Good Apple Updates
We will resume Good Apple Updates next
week. We had a slight hiatus due to testing.
Live Oaks students are so close to earning
the 1000th Good Apple!
