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Inside this issue:
Where in NES am I?
2
News from NES 3
News from our Classrooms
4-8
Announcements 13-16
Important Dates & Contact Info
17
Upcoming Events & Flyers
18-20
PTA News 9-12
November 18, 2011 Volume 2, Issue 3
The N.E.S. Newt-paper Newbury Elementary School Newsletter
Dear NES Community,
I am writing this introduction to our third Newt Paper of the year thinking about how much has happened since August even though the time seems to have gone by so quickly. The Kindergarten classes care-fully track the number of days we have been in ses-sion, and they report that Friday was our 54th day of
school. As we head into Thanksgiving it is a great time for our stu-dents and families to take a breath, reflect on our students’ accom-plishments thus far, remind ourselves of what we are thankful for, and enjoy the time together as a family. I am continually amazed at the number of good deeds that happen every day at our school. The number of items and amount of time that have been donated to the food drive have been inspirational. Dozens of parents come in to volunteer in their chil-dren’s classrooms each week. Students arrive at the office each day with green cards from staff members stating that the student has been caught contributing to the NES community. The examples continue on and on and remind us all what a very special place NES is to be to learn, work, volunteer, and visit. I am certainly thankful to be a part of this amazing community, and I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at NES!
Michael Tracy
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Look at the picture to the left—Can you find where I am in NES? Keep your eyes open to spot me—and check the next newsletter for the an-swer!
Where in NES am I???
Here is our mys-tery picture from our last newslet-ter — did you find it? It is the butterfly on the memorial bench
First grade students show off their Sci-ence Sun hats!
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‘tis the season for sniffles and sneezes… We have had questions from many parents about school absences. See below for some of the most frequently asked questions! What is an excused absence? Excused absences include absences due to illness or injury with a doc-tor’s note, family bereavement, religious celebrations, or other cir-cumstances with prior permission from the principal. What happens if my child is absent? Teachers submit their attendance reports to the office by 9:00 A.M. Once students have been put into the computer system an automated phone call is made to the homes of any students not marked present. If you call in to let the office, know you will still get an auto-mated phone call, don't worry! So what’s the big deal with attendance anyway? Research that has been done about school attendance indicates that good school attendance has connections to academic achievement. High attendance rates are also considered indi-cators of effective schools.
Did you know? * MA state law sets a limit of 7 unexcused absences and 14 unexcused tardies/dismissals in a 6 month period for school-age children. * The MCAS AYP measurement considers attendance rates
What should I do if my child is going to be out of school? Let the classroom teacher and the office know if your child(ren) will be absent from school. Plan to collect the work when returning from the absence and support your child in making up any important missed work. We also encourage you to read every day with your child—especially on any missed school days!
Thank you to all NES students for par-ticipating in our first Mix-it-up day on October 18th. Students had a chance to sit at tables with new classmates and connect over lunch and some used silly conversation prompts. There were lots of interesting and funny conversations enjoyed.
News from our Classrooms
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The students in 5F and 5F-S have been working on master-ing their grammar for the past few weeks. In addition to their grammar, we have been trying our hand at writing sequentially. Our first attempt came with our “Monster Swap” where we wrote a paragraph describing how to create a Halloween monster. After swapping their written directions, we compared the drawings. We were thrilled to see many similar renditions of a simple creation since our writing was so clear. Now, we have broadened our attempts a little with our “How to…” project. Students
are going to be the teacher for the day and teach small groups how to create their pro-ject using their own sequential writing. In social studies, we’ve seen how the lives of people across many continents were im-proved under the leadership of rulers in China and Mali. These new advancements al-low further exploration, bringing Spanish conquistadors to the New World. In reading, we’ll experience the arrival of these Spanish explorers through the eyes of the people indigenous to the Americas.
Writing and Social Studies in 5F &5F-S
5Lucy & 5Dow recently finished up their Adaptation Unit for sci-ence. We began our adventure with a trip to the Little River marsh to find and identify organisms and later identify their adaptations. We put together an unbelievable mural that we had dispalyed in the fifth grade hall. This week we began our Energy of Living Things Unit by investigating owl pellets and reading White Owl, Barn Owl. We integrated ELA into science by writing a business letter to Mrs. Yeomans and persuasive essays related to sanitary septic overflows. We also welcomed a new member to our classroom, a tortoise the students named Squirt! He fits right in with adaptation and energy of living things units!
Science in 5L & 5D
News from our Classrooms
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During the first weeks of school students learned about the library, discovered great books to read, and learned how to access library resources. Kindergarten students have started checking out books and are exploring the picture book (fiction) and nonfiction areas of the library. Students in grades 1-3 discovered authors and genres from the Library’s Treasure Box; authors included David McPhail, Tomie de Paola, and Stephen Kellogg. Fourth, fifth and sixth graders helped solve a library mystery and learned about the mystery genre in October. Students also explored the almanac by using search strategies and keywords to locate information. The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award program is underway. Students in grades 4-6 may participate in the program by reading five of the titles from the MCBA list. A master list of the 2011-2012 nominees can be found on the Library’s webpage, and logs and lists are also available at the library for students. After reading five of the titles, students will be able to vote for their favorite book in February during a MCBA celebration. Details to come! Thank you to the many volunteers who keep the materials moving throughout the week at the library. Students are able to put their hands on titles that they are looking for in a timely manner through the efforts of our volunteers. The fall Book Fair was here this week and coordinated by Patty Olson and Tammy Cot-ter. Countless volunteers have made the Book Fair a great success. Months of planning and
preparation are needed to coordinate the large volume of materials and classes that pass through the Little Gym during the week of the Book Fair. Multiple copies of the MCBA titles were purchased at the start of the school year through funding from last year’s Scholastic Book Fair. Thank you to all who made this event happen and to the PTA for supporting the purchase of library materials throughout the school year
Library
What's That Portion?, focuses on understanding, comparing, and solving problems with fractions and percents. This unit is the first of two units in Grade 5 that develop ideas about representing the meaning of fractions, decimals, and fractions and the relationship among them. There will also be comparisons and equivalents of fractions, decimals, and percents. Lastly, will be the develop-ment of strategies for adding and subtracting fractions and decimals.
Math in 5D & 5L
News from our Classrooms
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We are enjoying our new computers in the lab, thank you taxpay-ers. We now have 40 computers between the library and the computer lab space, which rarely get a chance to rest. 5th and 6th graders are in and out of the space using the technology to keep up with their class pro-jects, and are respectfully using the space, while I continue to teach classes. The 4th grades, with the help of parent volunteers, are booking the extra computers to continue with their Online Math League, a chal-lenging math competition between schools. In class time the 5th and 6th grades are focusing on the skills needed for using Excel in class projects. The 5th grades are manipulating scores from the Boston Bruins website to find totals, mean, median and mode and create graphs to present and explain their data in Microsoft Word. The 6th grades are using Excel to record information about 12 mystery sites around the world, first solving the mysteries, using the internet, and now recording elevations and distances between the mystery cities. Fun!! 4th grade is learning the skills needed to work on an online Pirate Pad, which essentially is an online piece of paper that several children can write on at once and each child has a different color so they know who wrote what. It doesn’t always go smoothly, and we experience difficulties with losing connection if too many people are on at once. However, needing to work with a partner and using a format to work together is a valuable team building experience. Once they have edited their work to-gether, they will learn how to transfer their work onto a Power Point. The teams that work well to-gether in an online environment will see the benefits in the quality of their presentations. 3rd grade is making great progress on our network Type to Learn program. The program teaches the skills and will not allow progress to the next level until the first level is achieved. I feel like a coach finding ways to help children continue when they are frustrated, and we all feel the sweet smell of success when another level is achieved. 2nd grade has worked on many skills using Nat Geog to label all the continents and oceans, part of their social studies work. Currently, we are using a child’s version of Microsoft Word, Max Write, to write and insert pictures for the economics part of social studies understanding how our needs and wants relate to earning money. We are learning how those needs and wants are met by goods and services we buy. We are making great use of our school wide subscription to Brainpop which allows us to watch short kid friendly videos about difficult to understand subjects, such as eco-nomics. 1st grade has just finished working on graphing and are now working on writing and drawing math word problems using picture stamps from Kid Pix and typing on the keyboard. The graphing started with an online haunted Halloween walk where we collected data by using tally marks. Later we took the data and made both class graphs and individual graphs of all the ghosts we met on the walk. Finally, kindergarten is learning lots of manipulation of text, pictures, stamps and mouse, usu-ally in Kid Pix, while using the different topics they are learning in class such as shapes, numbers and let-ters. .A big thank you to the many parents who volunteer with computer classes, especially in the younger grades. I cannot express how much this helps every child to have a successful experience. Please feel free to come and see what is happening in the lab library area at any time.
Technology
News from our Classrooms
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For math, students from 5-F and 5-FS have just finished their unit on num-ber theory, multiplication, and division. For the past week we have been working on one and two-step word problems using all four operations to try to bring some of the math skills they have mastered into real world ap-plications. We have been amazed at how drawing a picture or examining the words in a problem can help clarify problem solving strategies. In science, we have just finished our unit on the adaptation of living things. Students created a new species complete with its own unique adaptations and drew it within its environment. The
thought and artistic design behind these creature creations was quite as-tounding. Now, students will be looking at how living things are connected through the flow of energy through different ecosystems. In reading, 5-F has been working on “Give a Gift” projects for Maniac Magee. Each stu-dent wrote about the personality traits of one character in the book, then illustrated and wrote about what the perfect gift for that character would be. Students really let their creativity shine with this project by coming up with wonderful, fitting gifts for different characters.
Math & Science for 5F and 5F-S, Reading in 5F
NES students had a great time during the annual Halloween Parade!
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By, Anne Jerome, OT Preschool- The emphasis here should be not on writing but on activities that build hand strength, require the use of both hands together, and require dexterity. Pro-vide playdough, ball toss (use large, soft balls, bean bags, or even pillows to start), stringing beads and pasta, stirring and pouring, digging in dirt and sand, helper chores that require carrying bags and boxes, games that require imitation and hand use (such as the song Open Shut Them), sign language, spray bottles, painting at an easel, and finger painting. Kindergarten- Continue activities described above but also incorporate writing implements that are short but not too narrow (here at school we break pencils and crayons in half, triangular pencils and crayons are great for beginners), tape work to wall or use an easel –writing on a vertical surface en-courages good hand position. Make letter practice fun- have your child write a letter on your back and guess what it is, write in the sand with fingers and sticks, form letters in the air with pointer fin-ger, make letters out of sticks, pasta, blocks, playdoh. Cutting and gluing projects are great for chil-dren at this age. Provide all sorts of writing implements to keep it fun and have plenty of scrap paper for drawing and coloring. First Grade- Continue using the suggestions above and incorporate more paper and pencil tasks. Printable mazes, dot to dot, and complete the picture worksheets can all be found by googling them on line. Graph paper is a great way to work on sizing. Provide lots of opportunities for coloring, cut-ting, and free drawing. Second Grade – Add more challenging mazes, etc. From this grade on, printing is smaller. Have your child practice making straight and diagonal lines staying within the lines of notebook paper or practice writing letters and numbers in smaller graph paper. Highlight the area to be written in with a yellow marker and challenge your child to stay within the yellow. Third Grade- In general it is very hard to change handwriting or pencil grip beyond this age. How-ever, children can work on refining their letters, usually this is a matter of working more slowly and
more carefully. Cursive and typing are introduced now. Visit Mrs. Raycroft’s teacher page for typing games each day. As they start cursive, have children draw long loops, waves, and zig-zags on paper. There is a lot of discussion these days about cursive writing and some schools are dropping it, but some children actually find it easier and faster to use this method and everyone needs a good cursive signature!
Grades 4-6 –Continue cursive and typing practice as well as frequent opportunities to use hands in ways other than clicking a mouse! For all ages- Keep it short and sweet!! For printing, typing, and cursive writing research shows that 10 minutes a day most days is all that is needed and is better than a long session once or twice a week. This is true of any suggestion above for children who struggle with fine motor skills. They will not seek out things that are difficult, so again, provide short but frequent opportunities. Put down the mouse!! Explore activities that require hand skills such as knot tying, cooking, sewing, knitting or crochet, gift wrapping, origami, sculpting, wood carving, crafts, model making, sports, building with scrap materials, playing “office” with staplers, paper clips, en-velopes and tapes, etc.
Supporting Writing at Home
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PTA News
Calling All Artists! New this year: The NES PTA will participate in the National PTA Reflections Artistic Competi-tion. Designed to enhance a quality arts education, the PTA®Reflections ProgramSM provides opportunities for students to express themselves artistically based on a common theme and to receive positive recognition for their artistic efforts. The 2011-2012 Reflections Program theme is "Diversity Means..." All students at NES are encouraged to create and submit original works of art in one of six ar-eas: dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and the visual arts (which includes art forms such as drawing, painting, print making, and col-lage). Winning entries advance to the state PTA level and top state award–winning entries ad-
vance to the national level of judging. The deadline will be early December. Look for more information to fol-low soon. For questions or to assist with this program, please contact Sally Milliken ([email protected]) or Anne Walsh ([email protected]) or check out the National PTA Reflections Program at http://www.ptareflections.org/cs/about_reflections.
PTA is live on BigTent! A couple of weeks ago, all PTA members (who provided an email ad-dress) were sent an invitation to join the PTA community on Big-Tent! We are happy to report that response has been good, and the online community is thriving and proving to be a great way to en-hance communications within the NES PTA community. In the past most PTA communications were one-way, PTA sends out email or ConnectEd messages to announce an event, request volunteers or to solicit support towards fundrais-ing goals. BigTent gives PTA members the opportunity to interact more closely with each other and PTA leadership. In the past few weeks NES PTA members have solicited advice and feedback about the Halloween parade, Cub Scouts and the Box Tops program. It is our hope that by fostering increased interactions between members, it will lead to a greater sense of community, increased membership and a larger base of volunteers who are interested in getting involved with events, fundraising and leadership for years to come. If you have any questions about BigTent, please feel free to contact Erica Jacobsen at [email protected]. If you are not currently a PTA member but wish to be, contact Renée Toth at [email protected].
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PTA News
NES PTA is now participating in the Labels for Education program! The LEF program awards points that can be used towards supplies or new materials for our classrooms. Our LEF co-ordinator is Heather Archibald-Dynok ([email protected]). Please save the UPC codes from participating products and send them in with your Box Tops. For a complete list of participating products, see www.labelsforeducation.com Some of the eligible products are:
Campbell’s Soup, Post Cereals, V-8 Juices (bottle cap), Pep-peridge Farm bread products, Goldfish crackers, Spaghetti-O’s, Dannon Danimals, Glad wraps, bags, and containers, Emerald Nuts, Pop Secret, BIC pens, labels, etc., Swanson Broth, Pace Salsa, Prego Sauce, Wolfgang Puck sauces, and soups.
Have an idea for a great speaker? Is there a topic you think others would benefit from learning about, or do you recall a great parenting or education talk you have at-tended in the past? The PTA hopes to start a series of speakers for the school community and would love your recommendations. Please send ideas for topics or specific speakers to Renée Toth at [email protected]
Thank you to everyone who supported this year’s Genevieve’s fundraiser. Together we raised over $6,900.00 for the PTA. Congratulations to 5th grader Sadie Stiles in Mrs. Fremont-Smith’s class for being the lucky winner of the 4 passes and an overnight stay at CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort. Con-gratulations to Mrs. MacKinney’s kindergarten class for winning the ice cream party. This class had the highest percentage of participation for this fundraiser. The orders are scheduled to arrive on Monday, No-vember 21st and will be distributed to classrooms and sent home with students.
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PTA News
PTA Volunteer Corner A Big Thank You: We want to take this opportunity to thank all of the parent and teacher volun-teers for helping us make this year’s Old-Fashioned Halloween Party a success. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Upcoming Volunteer Needs: Many thanks to all our outstanding volunteers at NES. With your help, we have been able to do great things. There are some new volunteer opportunities coming up.
1. Genevieve’s Gift Wrap Distribution We need 4 volunteers to help sort and distribute all of the orders on Monday, November 21st between 9-12. The delivery will be arriving that morning. We want to make sure that folks interested have a flexible schedule just in case the delivery is delayed. 2. 2011 Holidays From Around the World Christmas Party on December 4th (10-2) We need about 30 volunteers to help us run this year’s holiday event. Volunteer activities include:
§ Staffing the check-in table and bazaar § Selling raffle tickets and merchandising items § Helping with the country stations and lunch § Running Santa’s picture station: cutting photos and line control § Setup and cleanup
Please contact Belen Wieler-Hawes, NES PTA Volunteer Chair at [email protected] or at 978.504.9250 to discuss or sign up for any of these upcoming events.
As always, thanks for your help and support. We couldn't do it without you!
Mark your calendars! The next PTA meeting is Thursday, December 8 at 7 P.M. in the school library. All are welcome. Free childcare for kids in kinder-garten and older is available in the Kids Club room during the meeting. Spots are limited and should be reserved by the Dec. 7 at Noon by emailing [email protected]
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PTA News
Congratulations to Alden Giedraitis (6th grade). Alden’s drawing was chosen for the cover of the (2011-2012) yearbook.
ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK: Forms will be going home: DECEMBER 2nd.
New This Year: ORDER ON LINE. *** take advantage of the early bird special*** Effective December 2- December 23, 2011
Calling all pictures! Anyone with pictures (Halloween, Class events, etc.) please submit on CD’s (Place in the PTA mailbox in the Main Office) Mark the CD: “Yearbook, Event”
Yearbook News
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are happy to report that despite the impending storm, people came to our Recycling Day fundraiser on October 29 and we made nearly $900 toward the cost of a dishwasher for the cafete-ria. Thank you so much to Kelly and Dave Woodsum and Dennis from Universal Shredding and G. Mello Disposal for the donation of the shredder services, as well as Hans and Alexa Strauss, Jeff Willis of the Ipswich Bottle Shop, Sandy Hermann and her niece, master cookie sellers. Without these people donating their time, companies, and talent, this would not have been possi-ble. Thank you to everyone else who came to drop off their returnables and shreddable items. If there is enough interest, we may do another Recycle Day in the spring. There were two high-
lights of the morning, one was when the Lowry family brought $150 worth of shredding and another was when an individual who lives across the street donated $100... well, he was actually buying one of Sandy's cookies and said keep the change from the $100. She makes a heck of a cookie! Two other individual donations came in this month. Thank you to the Blanchard Family for their donation of $150 and the Walsh family for their $50. We appreciate your families supporting our dishwasher fundraising efforts!
We continue to collect new and gently-used sporting goods and will hold a sale at one of the up-coming PTA events, as long as we have enough to sell. If you would like to donate items, please place them in the box at the entrance of the school or contact Tammy Cotter ([email protected]) or Sally Milliken ([email protected]). Thank you! Lastly, we are excited to announce that the Recycling Committee was recently awarded MassRe-cycle’s 2011 Bronze award in the K-12 School category. The award was given out at a ceremony on Tuesday, November 15th, America Recycles Day, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexing-ton. Every year MassRecycle recognizes a select group of individuals, businesses, municipalities and organizations for their leadership and innovation in promoting recycling and waste reduction by presenting them with the ‘Green Binnie’ Recycling Award. Winners are selected through a peer review process and receive their award at a gala award ceremony. Newbury Town Recycling Coordinator, Ron Toleos, aka "Mr. Recycle", nominated us for the award. We are amazed at the progress that the school has made around recycling and are proud to represent NES and the Re-cycling Committee at this event. A huge thank you to everyone at NES, the staff, the teachers, and the students, who work hard every day to make the NES recycling program such a successful one.
Recycling Committee News
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Newbury Town Library is hosting programs throughout the holidays that will be most appreciated by older elementary school, middle and high school students, and, of course, adults! Information about a pro-gram for the little guys, that will include a visit from Santa, will be announced soon. Birds of Prey at the Library: The Saturday before Thanksgiving, November 19th at 11 A.M. Jim Parks from Wingmasters presents Native American Artifacts and Birds of Prey. Jim, who may be familiar to NES students for his owl presenta-tions, is a wildlife rehabilitator. He brings some of the birds in his care to the programs. It is an extraordinary experience. He is a terrific presenter with a re-markable gift for caring for the birds, but he is also informative and considerate of his human audience. This particular program is a great fit for the Thanksgiving holiday. Irish Holiday Music: Friday night, December 9th at 7:30 P.M. we will have a return performance from some Irish musicians who will perform holiday music. Eoin McQuinn, noted for his bodhran (Irish hand drum) skills and All Ireland Champion Fiddler, Brendan Bulger, will be back. In their return to the library they will be joined by a concertina player who will “call a dance” for willing and able dancing couples. A holiday perform-ance packed with some education about Irish music and a lot of laughs. New Hours at the Library: The Newbury Town Library is open Wednesday and Thursday from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M., Friday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.. and Saturday from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. The library will be open until 5 P.M. on the day before Thanksgiving and will be open regular hours on Friday and Saturday afterwards.
What’s on the shelves? The children’s room is well stocked with Massachusetts Chil-dren’s Book Awards and books from the sixth grade reading list. Thanks to sixth grade volunteers! Speaking of sixth grade – students Claire Zywiak, Jamie Townes, Katie MacDonald and Taylor Penniman have been volunteering at the li-brary. Thanks to Nancy Nicholson and the grade six team for recruiting them and special thanks to their parents for providing transportation to get them to us. They have been a great help and we really appreciate their efforts.
Newly released movies! In addition to an excellent collection of books, including a large selection of win-ter holiday titles, the library has a great selection of movies. Cars 2, Winnie the Pooh, and soon the last installment of Harry Potter are available for loan on DVD. Lots of classic Muppet movies are on the shelf to prepare viewers for this month’s new Muppet movie release. Ask library staff how to request these movies in advance so that you will be one of the first to take them home. Story Hour: There are still a few openings in the Story Hour programs for children ages 2 to 3 and ages 4 through Kindergarten. Call the library at 978-465-0539 or stop by to see us with any ques-tions about Story Hour or any of these programs. Newbury Town Library Zero Lunt Street. Byfield www.newburylibrary.org
Newbury Town Library
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Thank you to the NES students, families and staff for the out-standing support for our 2nd Annual Turkey Drive. Through the efforts of everyone, volunteers beautifully decorated 100 Thanksgiving dinner boxes of which 75 were donated to the Pettingill House and 25 to the Newbury Council on Ag-ing. The dinner boxes were filled with corn, boxed and fresh potatoes, peas, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, carrots, cake mix and frosting. A total of $624.00 was raised to purchase a turkey for each decorated box.
See you all in the spring for our annual 5,000 Can Challenge Food Drive. Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Charlie LaBella, Student School Council Advisor Michelle Walsh, Together We Gather Coordinator
Thank you NES Community
What a great Walk to School Day on Friday November 18th! We hope that you will join us for the following Walk to School dates.
♦ December 23rd Friday ♦ January 20th Friday ♦ February 17th Friday; Healthy Heart theme ♦ March 23rd Friday ♦ April 27th Friday; Celebrate Earth Day ♦ May 25th Friday
If you would like to participate, please join NES parent Liz Zukowski at the Newbury Upper Green at 8 A.M. If you would like to help Liz in this effort, you can contact her at [email protected]. Please remember all children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
Walk to School Days
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Grade 6 Parents/Guardians are looking for a volunteer from New-bury to help coordinate the end of year Meet and Greet at the Mid-dle School. If you are interested in volunteering for this opportunity, please con-tact Principal, Dr. Michael Tracy at [email protected]
Grade 6 Meet & Greet
There are a limited number of spaces available in the 2012 NES Ski & Snowboard program at Ski Bradford. Enrollment forms are available in the office or from Lisa Proctor at [email protected]. Don't miss out on this great after school activity!
Ski Program
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Do you have an old ipod touch or iphone that you could donate to NES? We are using apps to differentiate across the subject areas! The device needs to be functioning. We have extra power cords, but would take donations of covers as well. Please drop off donations in the office or in room 142. If you have a question, please feel free to email me at [email protected]. Thanks! Mrs. Williams
Technology Donations
You should receive your child's school pictures Monday, November 21st. If you are in-terested in a re-take, the information is below: NES school picture re-takes will be on November 30, 2011 from 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Please have your child bring the original photo back on the day of the re-takes.
School Picture Retakes
Newbury Elementary Triton Regional School
District 63 Hanover Street Newbury 01951
Phone: (978) 465-5353
Fax: (978) 463-3070
E-mail: [email protected]
PTA Officers President - Ellen Hazo [email protected] Co-Vice President - Elaina Sayles [email protected] Co-Vice President - Emily Abt [email protected] Secretary - Renee Toth [email protected] Treasurer - Hilary Lind [email protected] School Committee
Mrs. Dina Sullivan - Chair, Newbury Mrs. Deborah Choate - Vice Chair, Salisbury Mrs. Suzanne Densmore - Secretary, Newbury Mr. Lane Bourn - Rowley Mr. Paul Lees - Rowley Mrs. Linda Litcofsky - Salisbury Mrs. Mary Murphy - Rowley Mrs. Jane Purinton - Salisbury Mrs. Robin Williams - Newbury
November 11/23—HALF DAY 11/24 & 11/25—NO SCHOOL 11/30—Picture Retakes 11/30—Report Cards go home
December 12/1—HALF DAY, Parent Confer-
ences 12/2—HALF DAY, Parent Confer-
ences 12/4—PTA Holidays Around the
World, 10 A.M.—2 P.M. 12/6—Winter Concert, 7 P.M. 12/9—TWS Performance, 7 P.M. 12/10-11—TWS Performances 12/14—TWS Open House, 6:30
P.M. 12/14—School Committee, 7 P.M.
Upcoming Events
We’re on the Web! http://newbury.trsd.net
School Community
The NES Newt-paper is published by Heather Leonard on a monthly basis. If you would like to submit something to be included in the NES Newt-paper, please email your information to [email protected] by the Tuesday before the newsletter is published.
Newbury Elementary School Fifteenth Annual
Clothing Collection
November 28 – December 2, 2011 Coordinated by NES students and the Senior Center
Your generous donations over the years have helped many programs and families in the area. The programs we contribute to greatly appre-ciate receiving items that are clean and in good condition with no holes or stains. It would be a great help if you would bag and label each of the following categories separately:
* Children’s fall and winter clothes (short sleeve shirts okay) * Children’s winter jackets, hats, scarves, mittens, boots * Men’s clothes, jackets, hats, scarves, gloves * Women’s winter clothes, jackets, hats, scarves, gloves
Donations may be left in the lobby.
Parent conference days on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 may be a convenient time to drop off donations.
Thank you for your generosity and support!
Please call Kathleen de Stadler at 978-465-5353 with any questions.
Theater Workshop Simon Holden, a 10 year old boy has been elected to be the President of the United States of America. He is just a regular kid and knows nothing about politics or economics. He is faced with the problems of politics and the perks of Presidency. How could this happen?? Theater Workshop presents, AMERICAN DREAM, a new play at Newbury Elementary School. Written and directed by Stacey April Fix this is a play that unfolds in a boy's mind during a dream. A story that takes place in a dimension that is as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. A jour-ney into the dimension of imagination! "The illusion on stage is created with a modern design accented with video projections and special effects that make this show unique and compel-ling for the audience," says Marin Emery, Stage Manager. "It will be hard to choose your favorite scene because there are so many great dances and characters in this play," says Miles Tardy, the boy who plays Simon Holden. AMERICAN DREAM features 76 NES students ranging from 2nd-6th grade, and also includes an NES teacher, Bonnie Langendorfer. For the first time joining the production is a Theater Workshop parent, Jared Tardy. Middle School and High School interns for the show and provide sound, lighting, and set changes. "Triton Sophomore Rachael Hall has choreographed an all cast finale dance that is spectacular" says Fix. Don't miss an evening's performance of American Dream. The show is a great break from the tumult of the holidays. It will leave you feeling optimistic and dazzled by what is achieved on stage. Performances are December 9th at 7pm, Dec. 10th at 3:00 and 7:00pm, Dec.11 at 1pm. Tickets $10.00, on sale Nov 21st. For information on ticket sales contact Lauren Carr [email protected]
