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DATES TO REMEMBER
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Sunday, November 1
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Daylight Savings Time Ends – Fall Back 1 Hour
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Tuesday, November 3
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Parent/Guardian Conferences – 1:00 Dismissal, 12:30 Dismissal for Grace’s PreK Class
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Tuesday, November 3
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PTO Meeting - 7:30, Conference Room
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Wednesday, November 4
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Parent/Guardian Conferences
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Friday, November 6
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SES Winter Clothing Swap, 8:30am – 4:00pm, SES Gym
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Tuesday, November 10
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School Picture Day
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Tuesday, November 10
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School Council Meeting – 3:30 – 5:00pm
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Wednesday, November 11
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NO SCHOOL – Veterans’ Day
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Friday, November 13
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All School Assembly – 2:30 – 3:00pm
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October 30, 2015
Dear Mooooooooooooooose (to be read/spoken in a ghost-like way),
The end of October is upon us! I’m wishing you all a weekend filled with laughter, fun and trick-or-treating. This week we celebrated our 2nd annual Vocabulary Costume Day! There were great, robust, juicy words that students illustrated through costume. In next week’s Roadtown, we will include some great photos of the event!
We have some great news to share! Shutesbury Elementary School applied for and was awarded another Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS grant for our Artist-in-Residence program! We are thrilled with this funding and are delighted to announce the artists that we will be working with. In November and December, all classrooms will have the opportunity to work with the sister team of Ashley and Caddy Carlisle. Ashley and Caddy are the founders/owners/teachers of the Center Dance Studio in Amherst. Ashley and Caddy specialize in dance. Specifically, they focus on dancing as a means of storytelling. All classrooms will receive 5 sessions with the artists. The school will then create an all-school performance featuring their work. This performance will take place on Wednesday, December 16th at 7:00 pm. For more information about the artists, please visit their website at http://thecenterdance.com/. We are so happy about this partnership and experience for our students.
It was wonderful to have families in the building at conferences this week. This is a reminder that conferences continue into next week, and that on Tuesday November 3rd students will have a 1:00 dismissal. Looking ahead, there will be no school on November 11th due to Veteran’s Day.
​Have a spooktacular weekend!
Jackie Mendonsa
Principal
Moose Interview of the Week!
Khalil from 3rd Grade!
JM: What do you love about SES?
KWM: Well, I have a lot of friends. There’s fun stuff at school like PE and Art and Assembly. I also like math and science.
JM: What do you want to be when you grow up?
KWM: That’s a hard question, but I think I want to be a policeman because I want to help people.
JM: What are you enjoying about 3rd grade?
KWM: I am enjoying writing our personal narratives. I like it because it is writing about true stories about you.
JM: If you could eat any kind of food for the rest of your life what would it be?
KWM: I would pick a burrito. I would like lettuce, tomatoes, salsa, beans, rice, sour cream and cheese in it.
***SCHOOL NEWS***
*Picture Day is Tuesday, November 10! Order portraits now at mylifetouch.com using Picture Day ID OB015190Q0.
***COMMUNITY NEWS***
Not School Sponsored
*Hampshire YPC stands for young peoples chorus. Hampshire YPC is having an apple pie fundraiser, earning money for buses to drive kids to concerts. Each apple pie costs $15. If you order a pie, you can pick it up at small ones farm, 416 bay road, south amherst. You can order a two crust apple pie, or an apple crumb pie. Pies should go directly into the freezer, and they should NOT be thawed before baking. If you want to order a pie, call Sarah Brau or her mom, Molly Moss at 413-253-6717.
Pie pick up times:
Saturday, November 21, 9:00-4:00
Sunday, November 22, 9:00-4:00
Monday, November 23, 9:00-4:00
Tuesday, November 24, 9:00-4:00
*News from the M.N. Spear Memorial Library Join us for one of these programs coming up next week!
Wednesday, November 4th , 3 pm, at Town Hall
Soil is a Home – A Science Program for three to six year old children and their families.
Helen Ann from the Hitchcock Center will guide participants as they explore soil and earth worms. We will learn what soil is made of and who lives in soil? We will dissect some soil to learn about its ingredients. We will carefully observe the great soil makers, earthworms! - and discover how they sense their world.
Friday, November 6th
6 pm, dinner
7 pm, concert
Shutesbury Athletic Club
Lasagna Dinner and Concert with Brian Bender and Friends
and Friends of the Library Annual Meeting
Join the Friends of the Library for a family friendly dinner and concert.
Funded, in part, by a grant from the Shutesbury Cultural Council,
a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Saturday, November 7th
10:30 am - 12:00 pm, at Town Hall
DIY Creation Station!
Sticky Fingers - Duct Tape!
Hand made crafts for kids ages nine and up. Facilitated by Rory Valentine.
Registration required, 259-1213.
Funded by the Friends of the M.N. Spear Memorial Library.
Saturday, November 7th
6:30 pm, at Town Hall
Movie Night! ~Inside Out~
Monthly family movie night. Suggested donation, $1 per person. Soda, popcorn and baked goods for sale, $1 each.
Visit our website, https://sites.google.com/site/mnspearmemoriallibrary/home for a list of upcoming programs.
LIKE us on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/ShutesburyLibrary/
ATTACHMENTS:
Weekly Lunch Menu
Halloween Safety Flyer
SES Winter Clothing Swap
Halloweenfest - LSSE