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Here are some key highlights: Artifact Sharing: Last Friday, students shared personal artifacts with their class, celebrating each other’s unique backgrounds and experiences. Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week: The school kicked off the week by recognizing its dedicated teachers. It’s a wonderful way to show gratitude for their hard work and impact on students’ lives. Thank you to our community and students for making this week special! We greatly appreciate your ongoing support. Spring Book Fair: Students had fun exploring new books at the spring book fair, thanks to the support of the MPES PTO and community volunteers. NYS Mathematics Exam: Third and fourth graders tackled the NYS Mathematics exam, demonstrating their hard work and preparation. Kindergarten Post Office Trip: On Wednesday, kindergarten students enjoyed a walking field trip to the post office, gaining hands-on insight into the mail process. Incoming Kindergarten Screening: MPES began screening incoming kindergarten students on Thursday and Friday. Please encourage anyone with new kindergarteners to register for September. Canoe Trip Training: Today, fourth grade families, students, and staff prepared for their upcoming canoe trip—a fun and educational adventure. It was a week filled with diverse and engaging activities, bringing students, staff, and families together in meaningful ways. Wednesday, May 15 -School store will be open during all lunch periods. If you would like to volunteer, please reach out to the PTO or visit their website. Wednesday, May 15 -Incoming K Orientation at 6:00 PM at MPES. Friday, May 24 & Monday, May 27 -School will be closed for Memorial Day Weekend. Fun Fact : Do you know what Passport Day is? On May 16 our entire third grade will participate in sharing information about various countries around the world. Stay tuned for more information! As we approach the end of the school year, we will begin to prepare for class placement for the 2024-2025 school year. Classroom teachers will complete the process with the building principal in late May/early June. This is a thorough and collaborative process. We use various sets of data to help create balanced classrooms so all students can thrive academically, socially and emotionally. Before the placement process begins, I invite you to share any information regarding your child that will help inform the process by Monday, May 20, 2024. Please click this optional form for the class placement form. Have you tried School Dismissal Manager yet? If not, you still have time to sign up. We will continue to use the app next year so you should practice using it before September. Through the online dismissal management system, you can: Report student absences and late arrivals. Schedule early pick-ups from school. Make transportation changes as late as 2:15 on the current day. You should have received an email to set up your child’s SDM account. The email from SDM will contain important instructions and your personal login credentials. If you didn’t receive the email, please do the following: Click on the link: Login to SDM Orientation (schooldismissalmanager.com) Then select forgot username and type in your email. If you need support, you can also call the main office during school hours. Thank you for your ongoing support, Jenn Darling Monday, May 13 is day 6 in our specials cycle Latest MPES Headlines Recognizing Musical Talent At its May 7 meeting, the Carmel Board of Education recognized music students throughout the district who were selected for the All County and Honors ensembles. The Carmel Central School District Music Department has so much to be proud of each year. This year, we had over 50 students perform in Area All State,” said Music Department Chair Meghan Cabral. We also had students perform with New York State School Music Association’s All State festival and the New York State Band Directors’ Association honor bands. Our George Fischer Middle School students stood out at the Putnam County Music Educators’ Association all county festivals, too. This year we had over 70 students accepted! Each year we also have students earn Excellent and Outstanding ratings at the NYSSMA solo festival.” Carmel Schools have been recognized as one of the best communities for music education by the National Association of Music Merchants’ (NaMM) for seven years running. Read more District News Read All About It: Earth Day News Earth Day may be celebrated just one day a year but the fourth graders in Janine Avitabile’s reading class at Matthew Paterson Elementary School find ways to reduce, reuse and recycle all year long. For Earth Day they made magazine covers – on a digital platform, not wasteful paperto show how small acts can have a big impact on the planet. Layla made a magazine cover called Saving the Earth” which featured a story about her magic cup. Whenever we are going to water the plants, we grab the magic cup,” she said. We use the same cup every time, so we don’t have to throw it out or wash it.” Alessia, who is known for creating projects for her room, said her mission was making art out of plastic bottles. Addison made a special Stop the Littering” issue of her magazine. The magazine noted that Addison’s mission is picking up litter at a local park. Read more Matthew Paterson Elementary School News An Art Lesson That’s Catnip for Students Art Teacher Alex Lombardo’s project for Matthew Paterson Elementary School fourth graders was catnip to the students. The assignment called for students to create portraits of cats posing as humans and dressed up in fancy clothes. It was in the style of d igital artist Galina Bugaevskaya, who reimagines traditional portraits, but with cats dressed up as royalty. I guide the students in how to draw the cats in human pose,” Lombardo said. They are welcome to change their clothes and accessorize the cat.” The students in Katherine Allen’s fourth grade class could not have been more excited to add to the artist’s Cat Universe. Read more and see more photos Matthew Paterson Elementary School News Reading the Words Around Us The second grade teachers at Matthew Paterson Elementary School decided that one way to teach reading would be to work with the words all around us. What could be more fun than to have students read the words and phrases that decorate each other’s T-shirts? On T-shirt Day the lesson in Catherine DeGloria’s class was on phonemes – the sounds of speech. While there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, there are 44 phonemes, which include the sounds made by ph,” oo,” qu” and many other pairings. We are learning phonemes and we’re going to be reading words by pieces – or phonemes,” DeGloria said. We are going to take a look at the words on our...