Daisy Daily for the Week of February 11, 2019

Our students enjoyed so many wonderful activities

on Kindness Day!!!

Daisy Staff,

Thanks to all for such a great week last week!  We had a terrific Kindness Day on Monday; followed by lots of Parent/Teacher Conferences; and topped off with the Sweetheart Dance on Friday.  Thanks to all for your flexibility and for the hard work that you put into all of this, always for the good of our students!

Many thanks to all who added your talents to our "One School, One Book" Kindness Day with huge kudos to Cathy Dowler for coordinating it all!  Job well done, folks, with so much love for such a great cause!!!  : )

• Grade-Level, Leadership and Special Area Team Meetings will take place as scheduled on our calendar.
• Westbrook Board of Education Meeting is scheduled for Tues. evening, 7 pm, in the library at Westbrook High School.  This meeting with feature the budget workshop.
• A Joint Department-Based PLC Meeting will take place on Wed., from 3:15-4:15 pm, location TBA.  We will work together on EL Strategy #1.
• Our Toy Collection for Yale New Haven Childrens Hospital will come to a conclusion on Thursday, Feb. 14th.
• Third- and Fourth-Graders will participate in SBAC Interim Assessments this week, as scheduled on our Staff Calendar.
• 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 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

Scenes from the "Sweetheart Dance".....