Special Guest in PE Classes at Cutler, November 15th, 16th and 19th

Color Me Yoga founder and Wenham resident, Marsha Therese Danzig, will be at Cutler for three days of instruction and practice! As part of our year-long poetry theme, Marsha has created a special program for our students integrating poetry with her mindful movement based workshops for children. All grades will enjoy this program during their scheduled gym class.

Marsha is a pioneer in the field of rest and relaxation for children, receiving one of the first children's yoga certifications in the country. Her personal belief is that all children everywhere deserve to learn life affirming skills that help them maintain their joy and realize their full potential. On behalf of Cultural Enrichment program and The Friends of Cutler, we excited to have Marsha Danzig come to Cutler!

We will be the super seventeen!

We are so excited to welcome Sinclair Gordon and her family to Cutler School.  Sinclair will be joining our learning community on Tuesday.

Please R.S.V.P...A.S.A.P!!!

 This year, the school is inviting families to join their students for lunch in the cafeteria.  Our date is scheduled for Thursday, November 15th from 11:45 to 12:15.  Please return the form I shared with you at conferences or let me know via an email if you will be joining us and if you will be purchasing hot lunch.  If you are not able to join us, please let me know and I will arrange for your child to invite a special Cutler teacher as his/her guest.  Also, I would like to invite you to extend your visit and join us in the classroom from 12:15 to 1:00 to play math games, read books and enjoy your child's book making efforts.

Coin Drive for the American Red Cross-Storm Relief Fund

As a caring school community, we are participating in a coin drive for the American Red Cross.  Please send in coins with your child to add to our class donation jar or bring your coins to lunch this Thursday and add them hen. Thank you for joining us in this important community service project.

Kids And Company-Together For Safety

Last Thursday, we had a very full safety lesson that I hope you will take some time to review and discuss with your children. The lesson began with a discussion of feelings The children brainstormed happy and sad feelings such as content, comfortable, confused, worried and perplexed. Then we talked about okay touches and not okay touches and how those make you feel and remembering the strategy of NO-GO-TELL a trusted adult when our warning bells go off and we are feeling uncomfortable. This then led to a segment on private body parts (with proper terminology) for both the boys and girls. The last part of the lesson reviewed the difference between a swell secret(surprise) and a tell secret. Please let me know if you have any questions about the lesson. We shared with the children how important these topics were and how they were topics to be discussed at home and at school with trusted adults.

I Highly Recommend .........

  The school staff had the opportunity to work with Dr. Englander during our inservice day on Friday, November 9th.  She was a very engaging speaker. I hope some of you will be able to attend on Tuesday evening.

Dr. Elizabeth Englander, a nationally recognized researcher and expert in the areas of bullying, cyberbullying, and childhood causes of violence and aggression, is the founder of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University. Dr. Englander will speak at Hamilton- Wenham Regional High School on Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00PM. The Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District is sponsoring this event as part of its district-wide anti-bullying initiative. The event is free and open to parents, community members, or anyone interested in the topic.

Here is the link to her website:

http://elizabethenglander.com/

Our 3rd Grade Buddies

We were all excited to meet our 3rd grade buddies. This is a wonderful school wide program that builds community across grade levels.  We met with our buddies and shared our poetry journals and illustrated some seasonal pomes.  Last Friday, our buddies interviewed us and are writing a paragraph about how we are alike and different.

Sofija and Vivienne

Emmy, Lisette and Allison

Gianna and Jessie

Nate and Kevin

Paige and Jane

Sophia and Brynn

Jackson and Luke

Nicole and Peace

T-Shirts Needed

Please send in a labeled white t-shirt by Thursday, November 15th for a fun project.  The t-shirts may be long or short sleeve and your choice of size.  The students will be making leaf prints on the shirts using fabric paint. Please let me know if you have any questions about this request.

HELP WANTED!!-T-Shirt Printing

 On Thursday morning, November 15th, the children will be creating leaf print t-shirts. We will be working on the project from 8:30 to 10:30. Please let me know if you are available to come in that morning and help with this project.

Halloween

  We had a wonderful time sharing our costumes with our school community and families.  Here are some great photos from our day!!

KIDS AND COMPANY

Today, we had Kids And Company-Together For Safety and Mrs.McIlvaine reviewed the safety strategy of Check First! The students discussed why it is important to check first and who they should check with before changing a plan, activity or location. Please review some scenarios with your child and practice which safety strategy you would use and why! Also, please continue to review phone numbers and addresses.

Check First- We Learned this during Kids And Company Too

Chorus

CHECK FIRST, CHECK FIRST

It’s safer and smarter by far, by far

CHECK FIRST, CHECK FIRST

We need to know where you are.

Before we answer the door,

Before we run out to play,

Before we help someone older,

We check to make sure it’s O.K.

Chorus

Before we go for a ride,

Before we go a new way,

Before we make some new plans,

We check to make sure it’s O.K.

Chorus

Cutler Giving Tree

Cutler Giving Tree

At the request of Sophie Bellenis, Cutler School Alumnus, and orphanage volunteer, this coming November and December, the Cutler Giving Tree will be collecting shoes and boots for the children at the Rift Valley Children’s Village in Arusha, Tanzania.

The rainy season has started, and they are in desperate need of footwear.  The youngest children have already been supplied with shoes from generous donations, so what they really, really need are the following sizes:

Children’s sizes 12 and up

Adults sizes 1 – 10

The children need shoes and boots for coverage and warmth, but also to protect them from the various and many parasites that attack the soft skin of their feet and cause disease and infection.

We thank you in advance for your generous donations.  Please clean out closets with the children of the RVCV in mind! Once the donations have arrived at the village, Sophie will be sending us photographs and thanks from the children and we will, in turn, make sure that they are made available to you.