Daisy Daily for the Week of January 28, 2019

Daisy Staff,

Hope that everyone enjoyed the weekend! As we start off a new week of school, here are a few notes:

• Thanks to all for your flexibility last Friday, when we hosted the actors from "Grumbling Griffins" with us for the day to conduct practice workshops with our students, culminating in a school-wide performance of "The Myth of Persephone" at the end of the day.  I so appreciate everyone's involvement in this and can't thank Joe Biegaj enough for all the artwork that he completed with students in advance of that day.  Thanks to our Daisy PTO for sponsoring this cultural arts event!

• Please remember that Monday, Jan. 28, will be a "D" Day and then Tuesday, Jan. 29, will be an "A" Day.  Please note that each rotation day is marked on our Staff Google calendar.
• Please welcome Stephanie Merriman, who will join us tomorrow/Monday as a long-term substitute in Teri Paulsen's kindergarten classroom through the end of the school year. Here's a photo of Stephanie with her family...

• We are so grateful to Nancy Guindon, who substituted in kindergarten for the past few weeks.  She will return to working with students in grades K, 1 and 2 with Taylor Price.

• There will be a PTO Meeting after school on Tuesday, Jan. 29, from 3:15-4:15 pm.
• On Wednesday, Jan. 30, we have a School-based PLC from 3:15-4:15 pm in our library.  Beth Brunet of LEARN will join us to discuss EL teaching strategies.
• Our 100th Day of School is scheduled to be Monday, Feb. 4.  We will hold our culminating event for "One School, One Book" on that day.  Details of the scheduled events of the day will be released soon.  (We will skip the letter rotation for that day.)  Thanks so much to Cathy Dowler for planning this exciting event!

• Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place on Feb. 5 and 7, with early dismissal at 1 pm.  We will not hold a Faculty Meeting on Wed., Feb. 6, so that teachers may schedule conferences on that day.
• February Vacation Week will take place Feb. 18-22.  The school office will remain open during that week, except for Monday, Feb. 18, which is a holiday for Presidents' Day.

• "Light on Westbrook" Photographic Art Show at Oxford Academy will take place on Sat., March 23, 6-8 pm,  to benefit the Summer Meals Program at Daisy.  Please mark your calendars and plan to join in this fun, worthwhile event!

As always, please check our Daisy Staff Calendar for all the details of upcoming events at:

DAISY STAFF GOOGLE CALENDAR

Please also let me know about events to add to this calendar for the good of all.

Please let me know if you can help with the following:

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT VOLUNTEER INTO CLASSROOMS:

Marti White, of Oxford Academy,  has visited Daisy with a student from Oxford who is very interested in working with our students while using his Spanish, which is a second language for him.  He is most interested in working with EL students whose native language is Spanish and/or assisting in our Spanish classes.  He is available to come to Daisy at the following times and would be supervised by Marti White:

• Tuesdays from 10:30 am to 12 Noon

• Fridays from 9:05 to 10:00 am

Please let me know if any staff members would like to give Oxford student Bailin Pollard an opportunity to work with our students.

Thanks and let's make it a great week!

Ruth