Elm Street News
The "That's No Moon" Edition
PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) Updates
Each month, we look to celebrate our students who exhibit expected positive behavior with a Grade Level Incentive. This last month the incentive was a dance party in the hallways.
In April , the students will be able to look forward to earning the next grade level incentive which is on Monday, April 29th. The students will doing a material building activity.
PBIS Store:
The students traded in their earned ‘Cat Cash at the PBIS store on March 26th. They had a blast shopping at the store and are already discussing the prizes they want to get at the next store in June. Please remind them to continue to display Wildcat expected behavior to earn their ‘Cat Cash!!!
Staff Recognition:
The PBIS Tier 1 team discusses ways to recognize staff in the building. There are many recognition dates coming up and we just wanted to share them.
April 24th- Administrative Professional Day (Secretaries in the main office)
May 1st- Principal Appreciation Day (Mr. Fredette and Mr. Guerin)
May 3rd- Cafeteria Workers Day (All cafeteria workers)
May 6th- School Nurse Appreciation Day (Nurse Michelle and Nurse Amy)
May 6th-10th- Teacher Appreciation Week
Thank you!
Character Education
Canned Food Drive
Attendance Superstars
A positive attendance program has been developed and implemented by a couple of our Title 1 tutors, Margy Bissonnette and Stephanie Cross. Their goal is to recognize classrooms and individual students for daily attendance and improving attendance. Due to their efforts and the positive culture, we have seen steady improvement the last few months!
Remember - students can't learn if they're not here. Every time they miss a lesson, they are set back and it makes it more difficult to get caught up.
MCAS prep and Character Ed
3rd grade ELA MCAS starts tomorrow! They will test on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
4th grade ELA MCAS starts next week (April 9 & 10)
We've attached the PP presentation Ms. Tawczynski and Ms. Tata prepared for Grade 3 & 4 students.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - Make sure your student is ON TIME for MCAS days - 9:00am at the latest. Classrooms must be in their testing locations by 9:25am.
Paws-itive Office referrals
Plates - Worcester County food bank
This photo is of Congresswoman Trahan with the paper plates done by students in Mr. Flaherty's room and Mrs. LaChance's room during art class.
They did a great job and she was very moved by the messages.
Oliver Twist
Supper Program
EL Buddies Program
Bren Bataclan
This year's theme was inclusion and welcoming!
Sweetheart and Me Dance + VIP and Me Night
Sweetheart and Me Dance (Elm Street girls and their Date - Thursday, April 11th 4:30-7:00pm - Lifetouch Photographer will be here - The dance is $5.00 (date is free) - this may have been unclear on the tickets)
VIP and Me Event (Elm Street boys and their Date- Thursday, April 25th 4:30-6:00pm - Lifetouch Photographer will be here - The event is $5.00 (date is free) - this may have been unclear on the tickets)
Moral Imperative and Guiding Principles
At Elm Street, we believe that social-emotional learning and support in school is the key to academic success and creating a community of lifelong learners. All students can achieve at high levels, but first must feel and believe that they CAN despite cognitive, social, and/or emotional needs. Teachers must move past the "roadblock mentality," and present their issues as speed bumps - they slow us down to get over and past them, but we don't stop. Once students feel they are able to make mistakes, learn and grow from these mistakes and develop a healthy sense of self in a safe supportive environment, a highly rigorous curriculum can be faced and presented as a challenge to push thinking and develop deeper critical thinking skills for the 21st century global community.
We are guided by certain principles that move us to act and remind us on a daily basis of why we do this work. We also set out to develop these principles in our students:
Compassion - An empathetic ear is a rational response to an irrational world
Connection - We all need to feel connected - otherwise we are isolated and lost
Trust - You must believe in yourself and others best intentions
Love - Binds us together
Equity - Everyone needs to get what they need to be successful
Engagement - We must engage if we wish others to
High Expectations - Everyone and every student can achieve at a high level
Perseverance - Everything is difficult until it's easy