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DATES TO REMEMBER
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Friday, October 3
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PTO Harvest Dinner Locavore Potluck
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6:00-8:00pm
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Tuesday, October 7
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School Council Meeting
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3:30-5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 7 - Wednesday, October 8
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5/6 Apple Store Fundraiser
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Wednesday, October 8
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Chess Club Begins
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1:00-2:15pm
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Thursday, October 9
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Drama Club Begins (K-4th graders)
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3:10-5:00pm
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Monday, October 13
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No School. Columbus Day
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Tuesday, Oct. 14 – Friday, Oct. 17
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Scholastic Book Fair
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Tues, Thurs, Fri. 8:30-3:15
Wed. 8:30-1, 5:30-7:30pm
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Thursday, October 16
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School Committee Meeting
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 17
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All School Assembly
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2:30-3:00pm
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Monday, November 10
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PTO Meeting, SES Conference Room
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7:30pm
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Principal’s Message:
October 3, 2014
Dear SES Community
Happy October to all of you! It has been a wonderful week at SES! Classrooms are filled with learning, discussions and activities. Picture day was a success and grades 5&6 were able to travel to an apple orchard.
We hope that all families attend our PTO sponsored Harvest Potluck Dinner on Friday evening. Bring your favorite dish to share! The event starts at 6:00 pm in the SES gym. There will be contra-dancing afterwards. We look forward to sharing a meal and cutting a rug with all of you.
All instrumental music lessons have started and the staff and students are enjoying the process! It is so wonderful to hear the music filling the hallways. Music can have such a profound influence on our lives, and we are lucky to have this opportunity in our school.
Looking ahead at SES, the “Apple Store” (apple as in the food, not the electronics) fundraiser for 5/6 will take place in the library on October 7th and 8th. All students are able to purchase tasty treats from the apples that 5/6 have collected on their apple orchard trip. Our SES book fair will happen Tuesday October 14 through Friday October 17th.
As always, please reach out to me whenever it is needed.
Jackie Mendonsa, Principal
***SCHOOL NEWS***
The Book Fair is Coming!
Our Scholastic Book Fair brings to school a wonderful selection of fun, engaging, and affordable books kids want to read. Giving kids access to good books and the opportunity to choose their own books motivates them to read more. The Book Fair provides funds for our library, too!
Book Fair Dates: Tuesday, October 15th to Friday, October 18th
Shopping Hours: School hours each day, plus Wed. evening
Family Event: Wednesday, October 16th from 5:30-7:30
***COMMUNITY NEWS***
*ATTENTION PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF 3RD- 6TH GRADE GIRLS!!
Bring a team of girls to learn how to build and program LEGO robots while participating in a research project!
Date: November 8, 2014
Location: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Holyoke
Age range for girl team members: 8 to 13
Coach Compensation: $125.00
We’re looking for several adult chaperones who can each bring a team of three girls to a special Girls Connect research event. Extremely popular in recent years, Girls Connect is an all-girl introduction to FIRST LEGO League. The girls will learn how to build and program LEGO robots to do real-world tasks, enjoy a friendly competition, and receive awards for their hard work.
During the special Girls Connect research event, researchers from the UMass Amherst College of Education will conduct a study of girls’ collaborative problem solving, as well as girls’ attitudes towards themselves when engaged in challenging activities. There will be video and audio taping of the teams. The research is aimed at better engaging girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related topics; this research study is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Teams should consist of girls who have not previously attended a Girls Connect event. In order to participate, parental consent and student assent for research participation must be provided.
Questions: Contact Kevin Keith, [email protected]
Want to know more about FLL or FIRST? Visit http://www.firstlegoleague.org
and www.usfirst.org
This event is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Renee Fall
Project Manager, Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE)
Co-PI, Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP)
School of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
140 Governor's Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
[email protected]
413.577.4431
CS fax: 413.545.1249
www.caite.info
www.ITforU.org
wwww.ECEPalliance.org
ATTACHMENTS:
Weekly Lunch Menu
PTO Harvest Dinner
Drama Club Info
Drama Club Registration
Chess Club Info
Chess Club Registration
Steam Seeds - Library Program
Ukulele Jam - Library Program
Movie Night - Library Program
Turkey Dinner - Library Benefit