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DATES TO REMEMBER
Monday, December 24 – Tuesday, January 1
NO SCHOOL. Winter Break
Friday, January 11
All School Assembly, 2:30-3:00
Friday, January 11
PTO Soup and Games Night, 5:00pm
Hello SES Moose!
Happy Winter Solstice! The shortest day of the year happens to be our last day before winter break. The school has been a-buzz with activity this week. We had a fabulous Family Folk Dance on Tuesday hosted by our music teacher, Hannah Berube.
The preschoolers also performed some wintery songs for their families on Tuesday. On Wednesday the Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade held a craft day, moving between their classrooms to make popsicle stick snowflakes, doily snow people, straws and sparkles snowflakes.
The 5th grade presented skits, poems and rap songs to their 1st grade buddies on Thursday. Throughout the week Olivia DiDonna and friends organized a Red Panda Fundraiser, making crafts and coloring books and selling them to donate to the World Wildlife Foundation. They raised about $370 for this cause!! And today we are wrapping up for the year - cleaning out cubbies and keeping classrooms busy and quiet (or trying!).
From all of us at SES, we hope that you have a wonderful break filled with family and fun and that 2019 is your best year yet!
***SCHOOL NEWS***
Hi Families,
Our students have been busy making magnificent artwork in the art studio! I have created a blog showcasing the work the students are making. Please go visit and check out their beautiful art! You can go to the school website and click on the Specials menu.
Or you can visit https://sesartstudio.wordpress.com
I will be updating the site periodically with current work.
Enjoy!
Beth
Congratulations to 6th grader, Morgan Martel-Santiago, for winning 2 complimentary tickets to a UMass hockey game for his amazing drawing of a Minuteman! Way to go , Mo!
***PTO NEWS***
Soup and Games Night is Coming!!
The PTO will be hosting our second annual Soup and Games Night on Thursday, January 11, 2019 in the SES gym from 5:30 to 7:30pm. This is a FREE COMMUNITY EVENT. Please look out for a flyer and for an email from your PTO class reps about this. We will be asking for families to sign up in sign up genius to bring soup, bread or dessert and their favorite board games to enjoy in community. Links and more information is forthcoming. Please contact Elizabeth Pangburn [email protected]or Kara Knott [email protected] with any questions.
***MOOSE INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK***
AMELIA FROM 1st GRADE!
JCB: What is your favorite thing about school?
AP: Math, we are doing subtraction.
JCB: What do you like to do outside on the playground?
AP: I normally just sing.
JCB: What do you sing?
AP: I make up songs.
JCB: What would you like to be when you grow up?
AP: A dancer. I take dance lessons now, every Wednesday.
JCB: What is your favorite food?
AP: Sushi. I go to Osaka’s.
JCB: What are you reading right now?
AP: I’m reading Ramona Forever. I’ve read it once before but that was a long, long time ago.
JCB: What is your favorite thing to do at home?
AP: Sing.
JCB: What kind of songs do you like to sing?
AP: I mostly just sing about what’s going on.
JCB: If you could be any animal, what animal would you be and why?
AP: Tiger. I just like how they look.
***MOOSE ON THE MOVE NEWS***
This year we have run and walked 1167 miles total! That is like running from Shutesbury to St. Louis, Missouri! The next session of Moose on the Move will begin on January 3rd. We hope that the winter blahs don’t discourage students from running/walking with us in January and February. See the Moose on the Move flyer attached!
