Connors School Scoop
June 2, 2023
Dear Connors Families,
We had such an exciting week with our Connors Field Day fun, STEAM TANK Finals presentations, CTY Meadowlands Field Trip, and rehearsals for the upcoming SPRING Elementary school concert!
CONNORS FIELD DAY
We had such an incredible time at our Connors FIELD DAY 2023! Connors Field Day was a day full of FUN and endless memories for students, staff and volunteers alike! The school spirit, positive energy and overall Field Day excitement carried through our entire day at the High School field. A sea of smiling faces rotated through our activity stations which all promoted teamwork, perseverance, and - of course - fun! The awesome inflatable obstacle course was a big hit too! The sun was shining and it was hot, so getting wet at a few of our stations certainly seemed to be a favorite activity. A yummy lunch from Chartwells was enjoyed by all before heading back to Connors where students and staff received refreshing ice pops from our PTO. We are truly SO grateful to all our Connors staff and PTO volunteers who not only made this day possible but also made it such a BIG SUCCESS! Until next year! A huge thank you to Michelle Mazurkiewicz our PTO lead for helping to Coordinate Field Day! I also wanted to thank all of our incredible Connors PTO volunteers! We could not have a successful Field Day without your help, time, hard work, and positive energy. We truly appreciate your participation! Enjoy all of the field day pictures below!
5TH GRADE NIGHT OUT is Tonight! JUNE 2 - RSVP NOW!
The 5TH GRADE NIGHT OUT is TONIGHT (Friday, June 2nd) from 6-7:30pm at Hoboken HS Gym hosted by the PTOs of Connors, Brandt and Wallace! 5th graders can still RSVP here to attend.
LAST PTO MEETING ON TUESDAY (6/6)
Please join us this Tuesday, June 6th at 8:30am for our last PTO meeting of the year at Connors (or join virtually here). We'd love to end our amazing year with a well-attended meeting where we can highlight what's happening in June, recap our year, and share ideas for next year as well.
BOOK DONATIONS
BOOKS: Donate your gently used elementary-age-appropriate books for teachers to refresh their classroom libraries, and the rest will be used to continuously stock the Connors Little Free Library. Drop off at PTO Meetings, at morning drop off, or with office / teacher. Too much to carry? Email Michelle at MichelleAprilMaz@gmail.com for pickup.
LUNCH
Please ensure that you check with your child regarding what they would like to eat when you place your child's lunch order on the lunch order form. Oftentimes, children may want to choose different items than what their parents order for them which causes many students to feel upset. Here is the link to the school lunch form Lunch Order Form 6/5-6/9 . Here is the detailed lunch and breakfast menu from Chartwells, which has all of the nutritional information. https://hoboken.nutrislice.com/menus-eula.
ATTENDANCE
If your child will be absent from school, please email connorsattendance@hoboken.k12.nj.us along w/ your child’s homeroom teacher with the following information:
Child’s Name
Reason for absence
Date of expected return
Any documentation for your child’s absence (i.e. doctor’s note, court note, etc.)
School begins at 8:15 am. Please ensure that your child arrives on time to school and enters the building with their homeroom class.
EARLY PICK-UP
If you are picking up your child early from school, please Email connorsattendance@hoboken.k12.nj.us along w/ your child’s homeroom teacher with the following information by 10:00 am.
Time that you will be picking up your child
Who will be picking up your child. Make sure that whoever is picking up your child is listed on your child’s approved pick-up list. Connors Parent/Student Information Form 2022-2023
Parents will not be able to sign children out between 2:30 and 3:00 PM. After 2:30 PM, you must wait until regular dismissal time.
IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES
June-Pride Month
June 2nd-5th Grade Night Out
June 5th- G2-G3 CTY Hoboken Spring Nature Scavenger Hunt
June 6th- PTO Meeting @ 8:30am @ Connors
June 6th- Spring Music Rehearsal at HHS Grades 3-5 @ 8:30am-11:15am
June 8th-Grade 5 Field Trip to NJ Sea Grant Consortium
June 9th-District Elementary School Concert @7:00 pm at HHS
June 9th-Last Day of PTL/Aftercare
June 9th-G4-G5 CTY Hoboken Spring Nature Scavenger Hunt
June 9th-Deloitte Impact Day
June 13th-14th-5th Grade Scavenger Hunt
June 14th-Rainbow Day
June 16th, June 20th-22nd-1:00 Dismissal
June 19th-School is Close in honor of Juneteenth Day
June 20th-Kindergarten Moving Up Ceremony 10:00 am
June 21st-5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony 10:00 am
June 22nd-Last Day of School
ADDITIONAL HELPFUL SITES
Hoboken Public School District Calendar 2022-2023
Connors Calendar of Events 2022-2023
T.G Connors School Directory 2022-2023
Who should I contact for assistance?
Connors Family Manual, FAQ's Connors Elementary School 2022-2023.
2022-2023 District Assessment Calendar and Information to Parents
All the best,
Juliana Addi, Connors School Principal
CONNORS Field Day 2023
G4-5 Meadowlands Environment Center Field Trip
This week students in grades 4 and 5 from our CTY Verbal courses last semester FINALLY got to enjoy their rescheduled field trip at the Meadowlands Environment Center! “Environment Through the Artists’ Eyes” gave students the opportunity to create sketches and renderings of what they observed in nature at the Meadowlands Environment Center. Later on in the day, they created a personal work of art to portray the environment through their own eyes. They had the opportunity to create a masterpiece based on the above-mentioned sketches and selected their media of choice. All masterpieces and artist statements were presented and shared in a gallery display at the end of the day as a post assessment and culminating activity. Students did a fabulous job with their artwork!
Path Poster Contest Ceremony
Yesterday June 1st, Port Authority and PATH hosted Hoboken Public School District's students and families in a spectacular event held at the PATH terminal. Our Top 25, Top 3, and Grand Prize WInning students all gathered, along with their families, to celebrate being chosen out of over 500 pieces of art! The Top 25 summer themed artworks were proudly displayed and served as a colorful backdrop for the energetic performance by Brand Chorus, directed by Mr. Panfile. Their joyous voices and artwork certainly caught the attention of the entire terminal!
The Top 25 winners were each given a certificate by Clarelle DeGraffe, Director/General Manager, PATH. The Top 3 winners were also given a certificate and had their grand posters presented to the entire audience who was left to wonder, "Who is the Grand Prize Winner?"
Hoboken Public Schools is honored to be partnered with the Port Authority and the PATH Summer Poster Contest. Now, the Path trains will shine bright all summer long - even while underground. We look forward to 2024 where we will participate in the next annual partnership with Port Authority/PATH Summer Poster Contest Event.
We are thrilled to celebrate our Connors students who made the Top 25 Winners:
Reese Katzman - Connors, grade 2
Nolan Goldberg - Connors, grade 1
Maya Newfield - Connors, grade 4
Nicholas Pickerel - Connors, grade 4
Kamora Beals - Connors, grade 4
Serena Bufano - Connors, grade 3
STEAM Tank Finals Virtual Presentations
Big round of applause to the two groups that got to virtually present their presentations and talk about their inventions at the STEAM Tank finals this Friday in front of the panel of judges! We are very proud of our Koalas’s work for the STEAM Tank Challenge. It was an amazing experience. Way To Go Koalas!
SPONGEBOB MOVIE NIGHT
SPRING CONCERT
2022-2023 Elementary Spring Concert: The wait is over!
We proudly announce our 2023 Spring Elementary Concert featuring the Band, Strings, and Chorus of grades 3-5. Our spectacular showcase will take place on Friday, June 9 in the Hoboken High School Auditorium. Doors open at 6:15 PM and we have a 7:00 PM showtime. We cannot wait to sing and dance with you!
Please see the following communication regarding ticket sales and ticket purchase limits. Tickets will be sold exclusively at the door, not through BookTix, and we must limit sales to 3 tickets per family. However, any child 5 and under may sit on your lap and be charged admission, but not made to use a ticket. 2023 Elementary Spring Concert: Ticket Sale Update
If there are any questions, please contact:
Supervisor Jessica Fasolino
5th GRADE DANCE
The 5TH GRADE NIGHT OUT is TONIGHT (Friday, June 2nd) from 6-7:30pm at Hoboken HS Gym hosted by the PTOs of Connors, Brandt and Wallace! 5th graders can still RSVP here to attend.
Rainbow Day
Connors Class Learning Activities
Kindergarten
Ms. Fleischer, Ms. Watson, Mrs. Schain, Ms. Bartolotti, Mrs. White, Ms. Romanowski and Mr. Donovan
ELA: Although this week was short, it didn't stop Kindergarteners from having a BLAST! In ELA this week, the phonics focus was long u magic e. Our sight words of the week were who and good. We read the story, What's the Big Idea, Molly? and made predictions and sequenced the beginning, middle, and end. Kindergarteners are becoming expert sequencers! Keep up the great work!
We ended the week with FIELD DAY! Field Day was so much fun! We LOVED the Balloon Toss, Be a Bucketfiller (more water may have ended up on the students than in the buckets!); we challenged ourselves at Hula Hoop Hullabaloo and had the best time racing our friends on the Inflatable. Kindergarteners had the best day ever, and we loved seeing so many smiles throughout the day!
Here is a kindergarten field day video slideshow
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xzlV9LR7es5qtyYbtn5e-OgqsnjjX8au/view?usp=sharing
Social Studies: This week students learned about Jewish American Heritage Month. Students listened to a read aloud called “The Only One Club” while also learning about different holidays celebrated within this culture. Students also learned about Memorial Day by completing a Memorial Day book.
Math: We worked hard in this short week! Our connors Koala's worked on solving word problems by creating addition and subtraction sentences. Each student was given butterflies and a net. Students were asked to create an addition and subtraction sentence using the materials provided. They did a fantastic job!
1st Grade
Ms. Sheridan, Ms. Klag, Ms. Vayda, Ms. White and Ms. Stinson
ELA: This week in ELA we continued with Unit 6 week 3. In phonics we focused on rhyming words with silent letters and cause and effect events in a story. Students completed their first opinion writing piece. They completed the writing process and did an amazing job writing strong reasons to support their opinions. We started our second opinion writing topic. For this one, students are writing the best place to get food in Hoboken. We can't wait to send them home for you to read!
Math: First graders continued learning all about 3D shapes. We were able to name the shape, and the number of edges, faces and vertices each shape has by creating a 3D sand castles and completing an exit ticket that tells how many of each it has. Students will continue learning about 3D shapes by building different structures and learning that 2 solid figures put together can make a new one! Great job first graders!
Social Studies: This week we continued discussing chapter 7 in Young Citizens. This chapter is called, “How Are Other People the Same and Different from Me?” We reviewed the seven continents. We played a little trivia game asking questions like, “What are the 7 continents?” Or “What continent do we live on?” The children had so much fun with this and they did a great job. Then we learned about what a globe is. We learned that a globe is a model of the world. We looked at some globes in the classroom. I would ask them to point out certain continents and oceans. We discussed what a Cartographer is and what they do. The children enjoyed analyzing maps and globes. We can’t wait to learn more next week!
2nd Grade
Ms. Garcia, Ms. Rinaldi, Ms. Pokorny, Ms. Criqui and Ms. Romanowski
ELA: This week our shining students worked on finding out the central idea and relevant details of the story "The Life of a Dollar Bill". The essential question was "how do we use money?" Students used bar graphs to help them support the details from the story. The phonics skill for the week was open and closed syllables. The vocabulary strategy was context clues. In writing, students started to work on expository writing. They had the choice to research an influential person or research an animal. They worked on their pre-writes and researched on GetEpic. They are going to be starting their drafts next week!
Math: This week in math students began unit 7, which introduced fundamentals of multiplication. We investigated different numbers and determined if they could be split into partners, with none leftover. We also determined if they could be split into two equal teams, with none leftover. Based on our findings, we came up with characteristics of even and odd numbers. Students will continue to develop these concepts into the building blocks of multiplication over the coming week.
Social Studies: This week in social studies we started Chapter 5 titled "What does it take to make a state?". We were able to use our desk maps to help us locate specific locations. We were introduced to a raised relief map, which we love using because of the texture in it. We learned how to locate natural features on a map by using the map key. We were also able to analyze how natural features influence where people live in the United States, as well as our own state of New Jersey. We ended the week by being able to point out our state's capital, as well as a bordering state, ocean, river, and mountain range. We are so excited to continue learning next week!
Field Day: We had such a blast on Thursday at Field Day! We played goofy games and ran through the inflatable course. We had very competitive rounds of tug o' war and enjoyed the colorful parachute. We also had a 3-legged race and a sack race with our classes. Since the weather was nice and hot, it was so great to be able to cool off with some water games, such as filling the bucket and tossing water balloons. Beach ball bonanza and hula hoop hullabaloo were also crowd favorites. Thanks to all of the parent volunteers who helped make this amazing day a huge success!
3rd Grade
Ms. Januse, Ms. Hall, Ms. Schmidt, Ms.Criqui, Ms. Layson, Ms. Goodwin, Ms. White
and Ms. Stinson
ELA: The third graders had a busy week this week with Spring Concert Rehearsal and Field Day! They also continued to read The BFG by Roald Dahl, and are excited to be making progress on our final core novel! Students worked specifically on sequencing and retelling events in this story, as well as predicting possible problems. They also identified the main idea and supporting details of each chapter read this week.
Social Studies: This week students explored New Jersey's economy and industries. Students learned about the goods industries, service industries, agricultural industries that run the economy of our state. Students analyzed different factors of daily life that are influenced by the economy, as well as how natural and human features influence the economy.
Magical Moments/Third Grade Thrills: Third graders were THRILLED to spend the day at the turf participating in field day! Thank you to all the parent volunteers that made the day full of fun!
ELA: The third graders had a busy week this week with Spring Concert Rehearsal and Field Day! They also continued to read The BFG by Roald Dahl, and are excited to be making progress on our final core novel! Students worked specifically on sequencing and retelling events in this story, as well as predicting possible problems. They also identified the main idea and supporting details of each chapter read this week.
4TH GRADE
Ms. Schulz, Mrs. Rodriguez, Ms. Goodwin, Ms. Layson and Mr. Donovan
5th Grade
Ms. Ortiz, Ms. Schultes, Ms. Rodriguez, Ms. Layson and Ms. Hirniak
ELA: This week fifth graders continued listening to and discussing our core novel. Students are looking forward to see what happens next! In addition, we have been working on our fifth grade speeches. Each day students are focusing on a new paragraph and two students from each class will be chosen to read their speech at graduation!
Math: The 5th grade is working on a culminating Math project. Students were given a project where they will be creating a taco truck business. They will have to create menus with prices, take customer orders and calculate the cost of each order, and then students will build a 3D model of the inside and outside of their Taco Truck that will include a full kitchen on the inside. This project incorporates decimal, adding and subtracting, multiplying, area and perimeter, research, and organizing skills. This is a real world project that also reviews many of the Math skills we have learned this year.
Social Studies: For Social Studies, students have been excited to share their plans for summer vacation. We thought it was a great idea to give them a real world project where they are given a budget and have to plan a vacation around their given budget. Students have to choose a location, plan hotels and excursions, find flights and times, and research. It is incredible to watch students manage their budgets and discuss their dreams with one another.
Science: This week in 5th grade science, students put their robots to the test! While conducting 3 different rounds of tests, students were seeing if their robots were able to finish the obstacle course successfully. In order to complete the obstacle course, students needed to control their robot to move 2 different colorful cubes from one end to the other, while avoiding the "orange zones", in under 3 minutes. Students worked as a team to guide their robot driver through the obstacle course, and to the finish line!
Mini PGP
GK
Summer - Summer Bucket List
With the Summer season around the corner, students are exploring and learning about the summer season. After the group discussions, video watching, and reading aloud, students brainstormed the activities that they like to do during summer and/or activities they look forward to doing. The brainstorming list has been compiled and now students are wrapping up their work on the exciting Summer Bucket List Project!
G1
Summer - Summer Bucket List
With the Summer season around the corner, students are exploring and learning about the summer season. After the group discussions and read alouds, students will be working on the interactive Summer Bucket Project where they will be completing tasks and writing stories. Time to get ready for Summer!
G2
Passport To The World - Europe
The Geographers in Second Grade are about to travel to a continent of Europe. Throughout their trip students will be exploring Europe through the read aloud, Get Epic!, pictures and educational videos to better capture the European culture, traditions, lifestyle, and history. As a culminating activity, students will put together a Book About Europe by creating a lap book. Students have begun working enthusiastically to complete the project!
G3
STEAM Tank Finals
Big round of applause to the two groups that got to virtually present their presentations and talk about their inventions at the STEAM Tank finals this Friday in front of the panel of judges! We are very proud of our Koalas’s work for the STEAM Tank Challenge. It was an amazing experience. Way To Go Koalas!
Marketing
Future Marketers in Third Grade are using their STEAM Tank presentations and prototypes to create an advertising poster, script, and a video for their product/invention. Creative work is on the way!
G4
Global Pen Pals
The Global Pals in Fourth Grade continue working on their projects and holding communications with the Global Pen Plans! Global Pen Pals in an online program where they get to connect with students from around the world and learn about different cultures, life styles, traditions and more. Let the fun edventure continues!
Music with Mr. Azzarto
Hi Connors Families,
This is it! We are ready for the big show.
This short week was full of rehearsals at the high school, band rehearsals in the music room, ukulele band rehearsals, and plenty of singing. We were so busy that I forgot to take a lot of pictures. Every second counted as we prepared for the big show. Connors band, choir, and the only ukulele band in the district work very hard to make the show sound the best we can. The students sound amazing and are definitely ready to bring the roof down. I hope to see you all on Friday, June 9th!
Art with Ms. Capalbo
Passport to Learning
- In Nature Makers, students made lily pads!
- In Architects, students completed the tallest tower project.
- Students in Dinosaur Discovery had so much fun this week!
- This week in Reading Academy, students continued to work on their Fast Forword accounts and continued to practice individual skills. Other students finished their DogMan book! They were so excited to finish it, and now they have picked a book from the Bad Guys series.
Thomas G. Connors Elementary School
Email: juliana.addi@hoboken.k12.nj.us
Website: http://www.hoboken.k12.nj.us
Location: 201 Monroe Street, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Phone: 201-356-3684