S.M.A.R.T. Students!

The year is off to a fantastic start already. We are happy to see that many of our Mosaic kiddos have already connected with old friends from ABS and we've already seen new connections start to happen. Much of the first six weeks of school is devoted to making these kinds of connections as we implement techniques from the Responsive Classroom curriculum and discuss and model what it looks like to be S.M.A.R.T. (Safe, Mindful, Accepting, Respectful, and Truthful) in our school.

We have been learning about each other, the new building, and the expectations that make up our learning community through interactive team building games and activities over the past few days. We have also started to make observations about how we learn math and will begin to review strategies for addition and subtraction next week. In literacy, we have been sharing our favorite books as a way to learn about who we are as readers. Living a literate life makes strong, thoughtful readers and writers!

Many of our read aloud selections have themes that are focused around being Safe, Mindful, Accepting, Respectful, and Truthful. Our students have been making connections between the characters and themselves as members of Mosaic and WCS.

We have received several questions around who to contact in the event of a schedule change for your child. If you have a change that you know about in advance please email Sally Dattilio at sdattilio@cssu.org and cc your child's teacher on the message. You can also send in a note and we will be sure that the change gets communicated.

If for some reason you need to make a last minute change please call Amy Benoit in the front office. She will communicate the change to us. Please do not leave a voicemail message on our phone extensions. We can't guarantee that we will listen to those before the end of the school day.

We will answer more questions about communication, homework, themes, and volunteer opportunities at our Curriculum Night on September 11th at 6:00. We hope that you will be able to join us. If you are not able to come, the presentation will be posted on the blog for you to access.