Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, February 15th
NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day
Happy Birthday Agnes Niewinski 🙂

Tuesday, February 16th
E-Learning Day (due to inclement weather)

Wednesday, February 17th
All Staff/Students REMOTE
Happy Birthday Jackie Hood 🙂
Happy Birthday Mike Deany 🙂
Board of Education Meeting @ 7pm

Thursday, February 18th

Friday, February 19th
End of Trimester 1
IEP Progress Reports Due

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, February 8th

Tuesday, February 9th

Wednesday, February 10th
*All staff work remotely*
CPT Meetings

Thursday, February 11th
Happy Birthday Lindsay Imyak 🙂

Friday, February 12th
NO SCHOOL – Lincoln’s Birthday

(02/14) Happy Birthday Kaitlin Hillner 🙂

(02/15) NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day
Happy Birthday Agnes Niewinski 🙂

Monday, February 1st
Send Home Supply Bags to Group A students (2nd/3rd)

Tuesday, February 2nd

Wednesday, February 3rd
All staff work remotely
CPT Meetings

Thursday, February 4th
100th Day of School!
Happy Birthday Anne Weinthaler 🙂

Friday, February 5th
Happy Birthday Jenna Bartello 🙂

(02/06) Happy Birthday Heather (Longo) Absolon 🙂
(02/07) Happy iBirthday Izabella Rybinski 🙂

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, January 25th

Tuesday, January 26th
Happy Birthday Brian Key

Wednesday, January 27th
1/2 Day of School
*Everyone works remotely*
Supply Pick-Up (11-12pm)

Thursday, January 28th

Friday, January 29th

Think of how much your students miss you when they haven’t seen you over a long 3-day weekend? Or after a week-long break?

For some of our Kubbies, they haven’t step foot in our beautiful school, or seen their beloved teachers in over 300 days! Let’s do everything we can to make tomorrow, and every day we we have, as a chance to welcome our Kubbies, show them how loved and missed they are, and express our excitement to have them back in the building for face-to-face learning!

Let’s do this! Let’s remember our WHY and make hybrid learning successful for everyone!
We can do this!

Know that Donna and I are here to support you! We are a text, phone call or email away. Thanks in advance to EVERYONE for helping make hybrid successful and smooth! We truly appreciate your willingness to lend a helping hand!!!!

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, January 18th
Happy Birthday Cheri Grimaldi 🙂
NO SCHOOL – MLK Jr.

Tuesday, January 19th
Hybrid (In-Person) Learning Begins
Aimsweb Benchmarking (During RR times)

Wednesday, January 20th
CPT Meetings
ALL Staff Work Remotely

Thursday, January 21st

Friday, January 22nd
Happy Birthday Michelle Morgan

I saw the above post from Jen Jones on social media and would like to share her caption below, as it resonates after last week’s events in our country and I could not have said it any better:

“If you’re a teacher that hasn’t talked about the recent events in our country with your students, if you have carried on your lesson plans or class as business as usual, talked about oral things, done normal things, and have searched or are still searching for ‘the right thing to say’ consider these simple words that @mish1231 said to her students:

I’M FEELING A LITTLE SAD. I’M NOT SLEEPING VERY WELL. I’M WORRIED ABOUT THE THINGS I’VE SEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY.

Then stop and wait for nods, and watch the flood gates open.

When we as teachers just open that space for them to talk and tell us how they’re feeling, we validate for ourselves and our students that our mixed-up and confusing feelings matter. And sends the message, something we always want our students to know, because we always want our students to know that our class is a safe place to talk about things we hear, read and see happening around us.

It’s a crazy time, it’s a crazy time to be a teacher, there are so many things that we never thought we would ever have to teach about that we’re having to teach about. We are learning along with our students how to address that and do the right thing for them.

On my page, I try to bring to you what you need, when you need it, and in hard times like these, bringing you picture books and honest words that help us with these conversations, resources and strategies I’ve shared on my story to help guide us all, to see the light over dark, the good over evil, the joy over pain and to realize that teachers and students are experiencing worry, anxiety, sadness, and during a global pandemic, that it’s okay to feel those feelings and that it’s okay to talk about it.

Children are so extremely smart, sensitive, trusting, and more capable than they often get credit for. They can do great things, have complex feelings, and make significant contributions to the families and communities in which they belong. By creating, and allowing and giving them safe places and opening in our days with them to talk, share, learn, grow and begin this greatness together is one of the most important ways that we as teachers can have the greatest positive influence on our students because we are ALL influencers — especially to the 20 something little ones learning from us everyday. While children are the future….the real change agents for a better world, teachers, play a huge role in shaping how far they go.

I am incredibly proud of all teachers right now….you are doing amazing things, teaching virtually and six feet apart and relentlessly cultivating classroom community, having hard conversations, dealing with tough topics, and your students are so incredibly blessed to be in your class!”

**Please know that our SLT will be meeting this week and compiling resources that may be helpful so our schoolhouse can have a bank of common resources we can use during SELs.

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, January 11th
WELCOME BACK!
Staff Back in Building – Hybrid Schedule

Tuesday, January 12th
Faculty Meeting @ 2:45pm

Wednesday, January 13th
*All Staff Work Remotely*
CPT Meetings

Thursday, January 14th
SLT Meeting @ 2:45pm

Friday, January 15th
Happy Birthday Ami Freeman 🙂

(01/17) Hapy Birthday Cheri Grimaldi 🙂

01/18 – NO SCHOOL (MLK Jr. Day)
01/19 – K-8 Students Return for Hybrid

Happy New Year and Welcome Back! I hope you enjoyed a restful, relaxing break–time to disconnect from work thoughts, time to enjoy family and friends and to just enjoy time to relax. I’m hopeful this time disconnecting has been just what you needed!

I know our students will be SO EXCITED to “see” you all on Wednesday morning on Zoom!

Here’s our 3-day week at a glance:

Monday, January 4th
Winter Break

Tuesday, January 5th
Winter Break

Wednesday, January 6th
E-Learning Resumes
Happy Birthday Mayra Tellez

Thursday, January 7th

Friday, January 8th

Check out this 2021 Kindness Calendar below (click the image for the file):

2 more days left before Winter Break! You can do it! You’ve taught virtually, in-person, and virtually again — you deserve this break more than most people know! We survived a semester of pandemic teaching. It was not easy. It was exhausting, trying, and frustrating; but we continued to do what we do best — showing up for our Kubbies and giving our best for our students and families. THANK YOU. I hope you know how much we appreciate you. You deserve all the love and appreciation in the world! Now try to look at this graphic below and NOT sing-along…..I dare you!

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, December 21st
*Festive Days continue! WINTER WONDERLAND (Dress in all white or like a snowman)

Tuesday, December 22nd
COZY UP & READ: Wear your pajamas and enjoy a fun-filled day before Winter Break!

*When you end your Zoom call on Tuesday, hold your head up high! You’re walking away from a semester like no other. You recreated learning opportunities & engaged in a type of teaching that didn’t exist to us 6 months ago! We are SO proud of you! Have a wonderful, safe, Winter Break making new memories with those you love! Here’s to 2021!

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, December 14th

Tuesday, December 15th

Wednesday, December 16th
Happy Birthday Sue O’Connell 🙂
CPT Meetings
Board of Education Meeting @ 7pm

Thursday, December 17th

Friday, December 18th
Happy Birthday Kim Sendelbach 🙂

Ideas/Blog Posts Worth Checking Out:

Finding Balance in Today’s Classroom via Eric Sheninger

12 Learning Strategies and their EdTech Tools via Tech Notes

5 Ways You Can Use Flipgrid’s New Mic Only Feature

19 Honest Holiday Cards for Teacher via WE ARE TEACHERS

Tips Tricks and Tech Tidbits – Part 8 via Tech Notes

Thank you for all you continue to do to connect with your students via Zoom. Despite its challenges and the things that are out of our control, we continue to be amazed by the engaging learning experiences you are planning and implementing! Thank you for welcoming us into your “Zoom classrooms” — we always enjoy seeing you and our Kennedy Kubbies. These next couple of weeks can be a motivating time of the year. Be sure to take time to weave in fun, exciting learning opportunities for your students!

Although we are tired and looking forward to a much-needed break ourselves, thank you for keeping an eye on your students who may be acting out, or tuning-out more than usual. We give them structure and routine. We give them a break. We give them encouragement. Donna and I are a text away and are happy to join a breakout room to help support any Kubbies who may need some extra love or encouragement. For some, this may not be their favorite time of the year. Please let Donna & I know if there are things we can do to support any learning activities in the coming week(s), and as always, please invite us (and Dr. B) to join in the fun!

But I can assure you…… YOU are a constant in their life, and what you do everyday MATTERS. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication…..especially this year. We are THANKFUL for each one of you and look forward to being together again as a school community in the new year.

Here’s our week at a glance:

Monday, December 7th
Happy Birthday Dr. B! 🙂

Tuesday, December 8th
Happy Birthday Cindy DeRose 🙂

Wednesday, December 9th
CPT

Thursday, December 10th

Friday, December 11th
5 by Friday! Continue making those positive connections with families!
D81 Disney Sing-Along Deadline

(Happy Wedding Weekend, Heather Longo)