DAISY DAILY FOR WEEK OF MARCH 27

Daisy Staff,

Wow; have our students been busy this weekend!
(And I bet you have been, too!)

On Friday evening, about 50 students participated in the Mother/Son PTO Event at City Climb in New Haven.  This was the first time that an event of this type has been made available for families and it was met with rave reviews by students and parents alike.

On Saturday, four of our fourth-graders participated in the Regional Invention Convention at Quinnipiac University, and as a result of this competition, three of the four students will go on to the finals, to held at UCONN. Additionally, the artwork of five of our third- and fourth-graders was featured at the CAEA Youth Art Celebration in Farmington on the same day.  We will highlight our students' successes on Kids News as well as a Good News Assembly this week.

There were hundreds of student inventors at Quinnipiac on Saturday,

including four students from Daisy.

Joe Biegaj selected artwork from five of our students to display at the annual CT Art Educators Youth Art Exhibit in Farmington.

All of this followed a very successful Family Math Night on Thursday evening at Daisy.  Many thanks to Lesley Harrington for facilitating such a wonderful event for our families with sincere appreciation to staff members who also contributed to the wide success of this evening's event.

Our families so enjoyed learning new Math games from their children at Family Math Night!

Thanks to Lesley Harrington for creating this fabulous event and to Lori Blair from the PTO who helped supply pizza that evening.

So, ready for the week ahead?

As always, please consult the link to our Daisy Staff Calendar, but here are a few highlights:

• "Tech Tuesday" will be held after school on Tuesday.
• We're inviting our parents, as well as interested staff members, to the WMS PTO Meeting at 7 pm on Tuesday evening at WMS.  Pat Ciccone will present highlights of our District Budget at that meeting and all are welcome to attend.
• We will have a "Good News" Assembly this Wed., March 29, at 2 pm in the Gym.  We will recognize our students (as mentioned above), as well as Daisy's recognition as being named a School of Distinction by the State of Connecticut.
• This is NO Wednesday Staff Meeting after school this week, as per our schedule set at the beginning of the year.
• Our visitors from China will arrive on Saturday, April 1, and will stay with host families in Westbrook until Tuesday, April 4.  We will hold a school-wide assembly to greet them on Monday, April 3, at 9 am in the gym.  Eleven students and five teachers from China will be visiting our schools on Monday and Tuesday of next week and we can plan on seeing them here at Daisy on Monday morning and Tuesday morning.
• As you know, April vacation will be from April 10 through April 14.  Our school offices will be open April 10-13, with April 14 being a holiday (Good Friday).

Please consult the link below for important events for the weeks ahead:

DAISY STAFF CALENDAR LINK

As always, please let me know anything that needs to be added to our calendar for the good of all.

Let's make it a great week!

Ruth