This year we say a heartfelt  Goodbye to 8th grade teacher Mrs. Barbara Wilson;  1st grade teacher, Mrs. Caitlin O'Neal; 3rd grade teacher, 

Mrs. Raylene Rozzi; and 5th grade teacher, 

Miss Liz Mullan.  We will miss their smiles but we wish them good luck and God speed in their upcoming adventures.

PreK - Miss Sarah Conrad

Kindergarten - Mrs. Robin Baney and Ms. Krista Paul

First Grade - Mrs. Pat Coleman and Mrs. Cathe Fonzi

Second Grade - Ms. Emily Sheckles, Ms. Mary O'Connor, and Mrs. Kelly Pietuszka 

Third Grade - Mrs. Kyle Lee and Ms. Nora Cox

Fourth Grade - Ms. Megan Flaherty, Ms. Cat Hancock, and

Ms. Veronica Fernandez

Fifth Grade - Mrs. Malia Busekrus and Mrs. Stephanie Pacheco

Sixth Grade - Mrs. Nancy Meehan and Mrs. Jodie Morgan

Seventh Grade - Ms. Ina Loughlin and Ms. Jennifer Kusnierczyk

Eighth Grade - Mrs. Cynthia Larsen and Mrs. Dina Johnston

 

Art - Mrs. Deb Lockwood

Music - Ms. Andrea Carr

Computer - Mrs. Emily Stocker, Mrs. Laura Winstanley

Library - Mrs. Mary Anne O'Rourke

PE - Mrs. Brenda Bauer

Spanish - Mrs. Maureen Arroyo, Mrs. Carol Bonilla

It is highly recommended that parents purchase the Summer Math Skills Sharpener and Summer Language Arts Review books for their child.  Parents should order the grade level the child is currently in this year.  

To order a copy, please call this toll free number (800) 411-8286 or order online at   www.summerskills.com.  The nice thing about these books is that there are only 30 lessons (5 a week for six weeks) and they are each only about 15 -30 minutes.  The children could use the books during the breaks at the pool each day!  They are also good for waiting for appointments or siblings in activities.  There are answer keys and help sheets and facts practice for the math book.  Highly recommended as a tool to prevent that "summer slide" and to help prepare your child for next year!!!!

TIME TO PACK A LUNCH!  There are no hot lunches served in June!

Did you forget  to order a yearbook?

Want a wonderful reminder of your

student's 2016-2017 school year?

You are in luck!!!

 

There are a few extra yearbooks

which can still be purchased!

(yearbooks will be given out first come, first served)

Please send an e-mail and authorization to charge your FACTS account for $28 in order to purchase a yearbook to Mrs. Meehan at  [email protected] 

All students who have ordered yearbooks will receive them next week. 

 

Looking to get more out of the Sunday Readings?

Attention to all rising 3rd-grade parents.  The CYO is looking for boys' and girls' basketball coaches for next year.  If you are interested or have any question, please email Evan Tracey at  [email protected].

SkillBuilders, LLC McClean, has openings in their June 10 or July 8 Mindfulness & Movement classes. Class times are 11:15-noon for 7-9 year olds and 12:15-1pm for 10-12 year olds.  Children will learn how to deal with challenges that include stress anxiety, fear, depression, and ADHD, among other issues. At the end of the session, children will have built an awareness of emotions and coping skills to help them adapt to difficult or uncomfortable situations in daily life.  More information about this class can be found on  this flyer.  Want more information about SkillBuilders?  Please click  here to be directed to their site. 

AVOIDING SUMMER ACADEMIC LOSS

• Practice school skills in real life - If your second grader was learning to count money, make them the "family cashier" for the summer. Stop using your cards and carry cash, let them count the money to and from at each transaction.
• Play school - Little ones may willingly take turns being the teacher and the student. When they are the teacher ask them to explain a math skill they recently learned. When they are the student ask them to read aloud to the class.
• Take field trips - My family is lucky to live in the Washington DC area.  We have the Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo, Virginia battlefields and Baltimore Aquarium all within an hour drive. Within a day trip we can travel to Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Island and fantastic museums in Philadelphia. Take advantage of academically related field trips in your community.
• Take nature walks - There is so much to be learned in the world around us.  Summer is the perfect time to get them out in nature. A great book about this is Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Louv.
• Make writing fun - When you travel, encourage them to write post cards and keep a daily vacation journal. Provide other writing activities like invisible books, spirograph, stencils, mazes and Mad Libs.
• Challenge math in everyday ways - Talk about the math involved when you pump and pay for gas. For older children teach them to calculate miles per gallon since the last fill up. If you eat out, teach them to calculate the tip.  Take them bowling and teach them to keep score.
• Read aloud everyday - Reading aloud to children everyday is sited by the Department of Education as the single most important activity to build successful readers. Aim for 20 minutes a day and enjoy when it's longer. Read aloud to them through high school if they'll listen.
• If they are reading aloud - Encourage children to practice their own read aloud skills. This can be reading to a sibling, to the dog or even a stuffed animal.
• Encourage quiet reading time everyday - Again, aim for 20 minutes and appreciate when it lasts longer. Make this easy for them, bring books in the car or let them stay up later at night if they are reading. I get this is a lot of reading but it's worth it!
• Plan a book club - If they are at all interested, invite a few friends to read the same book with them. Then plan a party to celebrate.
• Investigate library activities - Public libraries in our area host many fun children's programs in the summer months. They also have a children's reading challenge that ends with earning a coupon book for area businesses. Check out your local library!
• Focus on vocabulary when you travel - There is new vocabulary available everywhere you travel. Discuss all the things you see with your children, provide definitions as you are able. There is beach vocabulary, zoo vocabulary, farm vocabulary, airport vocabulary...
• Puzzles, board games, cooking and crafts - Play provides learning opportunities such as puzzles for spatial reasoning, board games for social skills and often math skills, cooking and crafts for following directions, tending to details, often math and fine motor skills. Spend time this summer playing with your children.