"Reading Partners" program need volunteers
This year with the help of our Litereracy specialist, Phyllis Benjamin, the PTO is organizing Reading Partners for grades 1-3 this year. The following teachers have expressed interest in having partners in the classroom:
Grade 1: Heidi Lucas;Allison Forseter; and Matt Miller
Grade 2: Marc Lacatell
Grade 3: Abby Bargende; and Susan Yorio
The reading partner would come in once or twice a week for about a half hour block during the literacy block of the classroom they sign up for. Ms. Benjamin would be training the volunteers and provide a refresher. We will provide the each teacher's reading block schedule. It is expected that the parent will not be in their child's classroom.
Please contact us ASAP at auvpto@aol.com so that we can jump start this important program as soon as possible.
Citizens' Advisory Group meeting - October 6
Just a reminder about the special meeting with the Education Subcommittee of the Citizens' Advisory Group on
Monday, October 6th from 7:30 - 9 p.m. The meeting will take place at City Hall, Room 222. This room is up one
flight of stairs when you enter in the front door of City Hall. Please invite/remind your School Council members--they are welcome to join the meeting.
Here's some info from the CAG:
The Mayor, the Aldermen, and the School Committee appointed the Citizen Advisory Group and charged with us with (1) helping to define the choices facing the City with respect to municipal and educational services and their long-term funding requirements and (2) to help identify innovative ways of increasing short- and long-term
operational efficiency and effectiveness and developing new or enhanced sources of funding. While we will sharesome of our benchmarking findings and preliminary hypotheses, our primary goal for the evening is to listento parents' observations about the Newton Public Schools. The school subcommittee of the CAG has beenstudying special education, staff compensation, administration and financial practices, revenue streams, and educational factors such as teacher load and class size. Members of the committee are Ruthanne Fuller, Selina Pandolfi, Neil Silverston, Laura Thompson, and John D'Auria.
First Newton Sped PAC meeting of the 2008 school year - October 6
A Conversation with Stephen Shore, Monday, October 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm, 100 Walnut St., Room 210
Light refreshments and networking 7:15pm
Stephen Shore, Ed.D., is a 1980 graduate of Newton South High School. As a young child he was diagnosed with
"atypical development with strong autistic tendencies;" his elementary public school years were "a social and academic disaster." Today, Stephen is an internationally known lecturer and author, a music teacher and therapist for children on the autism spectrum, and has been happily married for 15 years. His books include the
autobiographical Beyond the Wall, as well as Understanding Autism for Dummies and Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum. Stephen will answer questions about his own remarkable journey, as well as about how parents and teachers can help children on the autism spectrum.
Sally Foster gift wrap sale extended to October 14
"Wrap Mobile" landed on Parkview on Community Supper Day and could not have been missed. Thanks to Kate Johnson and her team for their efforts who year-after-year will go to any length to inform you that the gift wrap sale is coming to an end. If you have not yet submitted your order form,you still have time because the gift wrap sale has been extended to Tuesday, October 14th. Please be sure to get all your orders in by that date! Thanks for participating in this important fundraiser for the Cabot PTO!
Cabot Directory
The Cabot Directory is almost ready to print! Our Cabot Directory team, Jenny Gamson, Marya Van't Hul, and Marc Svensson are working hard to get the information and send the directory to print! If you have not already filled out a directory form, or checked last year's entry in the directory for errors, please do so. We try as hard as possible to minimize errors, but we need your help. If you have any changes to your entry, please email Jenny at jenny@seckler.com.We have received
Dues form from over 250 families are in, and we are still waitng for about 80 famlies to send in thier request. Directory will be going to the printers in the third week of October. In past years, we have received many parents asking for second copy after the directories were printed. Please order your second copy now.This Directory is an invaluable resource for keeping in touch with other parents and arranging play dates. So please fill out and return the dues form.
If you are a returning family please do take a moment to check your entry in last years Directory & email CHANGES ONLY to Jenny at jenny@seckler.com
Cabot School Forms need to be returned
During the second week of school every family was given information which needed to be completed & returned to school. These forms were packaged in a booklet with a checklist on the cover instructing every family which forms were required to be returned.
While it is important for the School office to have all student records complete it is imperative for them to have the first 3 forms. Every student at Cabot needs these forms to ensure that family members will be notified during an evacuation or emergency situation at Cabot.
What do you need to do? Check your piles of papers to find these documents, complete & return them as soon as possible. If you are unsure whether you have returned these forms please check with your child's teacher.
