Letter due date, teacher's emails

[std...@aol.com]

I hope you all enjoyed the fantastic weather over the weekend.

Please inform your teachers that the class letter will be picked up by your lead volunteer on Tuesday, Nov 9.  The idea is that each class works together to write one letter.  Many teachers are also having their student's write individual letters.  We don't need those, just the class letter.  Please get them to me by the next day, Wed Nov 10.  I will leave an envelope on my front door to place them into.  I will send out reminders as we get closer with more specifics for you all.

 

Also - as I am still waiting for the very busy  Kerri Dunne to provide me with 4th grade teacher emails, I am wondering if we can circumvent her and have someone from each school email me your teacher's emails.  I would like to send out a monthly email.  Does anyone want to volunteer to write the monthly email?

 

And finally - Beth has volunteered to write a blurb about our fall fundraiser concert, Nov. 21, to send out to your school's email list as well as to put into school newsletters.  Please follow through on this as it is a free way for us to market the event and hopefully get a lot of 4th graders and other aged kids there with their families.

 

 

Thanks

[Heather Smith]

Thanks Elizabeth.  I will forward the info. about the letters to the Hardy teachers:

Maggie Trivino
mtri...@arlington.k12.ma.us

and

Julie Harrington
jharr...@arlington.k12.ma.us

 

Cheers,
Heather

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[Evelyne Delori]

Hi, this is Evelyne - one of the Thompson School Teosinte volunteers.

Our volunteer group was wondering if last year you or volunteers at your school involved the specialists (art, music, gym or library) in your Teosinte programming. As we are thinking about reaching out to these teachers/staff we wanted to hear about what had worked (or not worked) before.

I would love to talk to/email volunteer from Stratton (as we share an art teacher and gym teacher) and Dallin (as we share a music teacher) so that we can coordinate on our outreach and programming.

Elizabeth and Beth - did the Bracket art, music and library teachers write up any lessons/projects/ideas that could be shared with specialist?

Hope you all had a relaxing weekend,

Evelyne

[Beth Soltzberg]

In response to Evelyne's question -- the art, music and library
teachers were part of the Brackett teachers' committee that designed the
Teosinte curriculum. The year that it was piloted at Brackett, art and
music were integral. The spring concert and art show were focused on
Latin America. The next year, I believe that the same program was held
at Peirce, which shares our art and music teacher.

While there was a lot of discussion about writing up the art, music and
library lesson plans, I'm not sure how far this got. The curriculum
guide doesn't include them. I think that the Brackett music teacher
(Gina Esile-Silva), the art teacher (Deborah Chisholm) and the librarian
(Judy Shoemacher) would be very happy to talk w/ you or your teachers
about their ideas and what they did. Hope this helps.

Beth