[CabotCommunity] JabberLite from Cabot PTO

[Jo Doherty]

JABBERLITE   FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST 

 

It seems incredible but the school year is nearly upon us!! We hope that you
all have enjoyed a good summer & we are looking forward to another great
year at Cabot. Once school starts we will be sending out emails every
Tuesday so keep a look out for them. In combination with the Cabot PTO
website at www.cabotpto.org <http://www.cabotpto.org/>  it's a great way to
keep informed about life at Cabot. 

 

Check out these upcoming Dates

A complete listing for the year will be included in your Welcome Packet -
see below. And remember it's updated throughout the year online!


September 5, 2006

Welcome Picnic for New Families, 5:30 PM (rain date 9/6/06)


September 7, 2006

First Day for Students Grade 1-5 & Kindergarten "A" students


September 7, 2006

PTO Coffee for New Parents, 8:30 AM outside Kindergarten wing


September 8, 2006

First Day for Kindergarten "B" students


September 8, 2006

PTO Coffee for New Parents, 8:30 AM outside Kindergarten wing


September 11, 2006

Parent to Parent Series, K Parents, 8:35AM - 9:30AM


September 13, 2006

First All School Assembly, 11:30 AM


September 14, 2006

PTO 1st Annual Meeting & Welcome, 8:35AM - 9:30AM


September 18, 2006

Parent to Parent Series, 1st Grade, 8:35AM - 9:30AM


September 19, 2006

PTO Gift Wrap Sale Begins (thru 10/10)


September 19, 2006

Cabot Community Supper, 5 PM Cabot Field (Rain date 9/20)


September 26, 2006

Cabot Back To School Night, 6 PM

 

Keep in Touch

Our webmaster Mie-Yun Lee has been hard at work updating our website & email
distribution system. If your email address was on our distribution system at
the end of the last school year it will have been transferred. Otherwise if
you are a new family to Cabot & need to register or if your email changes or
you want to add another email to our distribution system, please go to
http://cabotpto.org/mailman/listinfo/cabotcommunity_cabotpto.org . You will
be guided through the steps & will receive a confirmation email to indicate
you have been successfully added to the Cabot PTO email distribution list.
In the event you have any questions please contact our webmaster, Mie-Yun
Lee at mylcabot at gmail.com

Family Picture Day - Appointments available NOW

Do you have a family photo taken for the holidays? This year we are offering
an opportunity to have your family portrait taken by Coffee Pond (they take
our student photos). You should have already received emails about this
event. If you are interested ACT NOW as we share the 3 days offered in
October with 7 other schools so dates will go fast. The appointment book
opens September 1st. For further information look for our previous emails
(last one sent August 29th) or contact our parent volunteer coordinator,
Sharon Dwyer at 617 641 2342 or  <mailto:jsordwyer at rcn.com>
jsordwyer at rcn.com 

This is a new fundraising event introduced at Cabot this year - all funds
generated will benefit the outdoor Cabot Community Park which all students
at Cabot will use for recreational & educational purposes. Help support this
initiative & worthy cause!

Great news for the Library!

Its official - Lani Gerson is back at the Cabot Library full-time!!! Yeah!!
We are very appreciative of the efforts made last year by both Lani & Lisa
Vancan in keeping the library running smoothly while effectively job
sharing. We say goodbye to Lisa Vancan with much appreciation for all her
hard work last year!

Back to School Shopping

Still have back to school shopping to do? No worries! Do it on-line via the
Cabot PTO website www.cabotpto.org <http://www.cabotpto.org/>   How many of
you shop at these stores?  Target, Lands End, Pottery Barn, Old Navy,
Wal-mart, Staples, Office Max, Office Depot, Home Depot, Gap, JC Penny, Best
Buy, Barnes & Noble, Boden, Lillian Vernon, Dell, Eddie Bauer, Restoration
Hardware & many, many more..

By shopping online at these stores via the www.CabotPTO.org
<http://www.cabotpto.org/>  website you can earn money for Cabot School?
Just click on the Shopping icon you are away. IT IS VERY SIMPLE & it doesn't
cost you any extra!

 

Keep your eyes peeled for the Welcome Packet

Aah, its that time of year when you will be inundated with paper. As usual
the PTO sends home a Welcome Packet on the first few days of school in your
child's backpack. It contains lots of important information so keep your
eyes peeled for it & open it! Several items require your immediate attention
& action! This year we have changed some things around - just to keep you on
your toes! So read carefully...

 

Kick off the new school year with Cabot's annual Community Supper

The Community Supper needs you! We are looking for one or two people to help
coordinate the clean-up effort on Sept 19th.  We will recruit volunteers to
assist you so you won't be alone.  Clean-up starts around 7 pm and ends
around 8:30 pm.  Please contact Sue Covitz at  <mailto:suecovitz at rcn.com>
suecovitz at rcn.com if interested.

 

Message from Cabot Principal, Dr. Marilynne Quarcoo

Welcome, Welcome!

Yes, the doors at Cabot School are just about to open! In a matter of days,
we will greet our new and returning students. From all the activity in the
building this past week, I can confidently say that the excitement is
building here! Tuesday is the first official day for faculty and staff. We
spend a great deal of time in meetings. We meet with Superintendent Young
and learn about the district's major initiatives and then we start our work
to build a professional collaborative community. This year, we welcome more
than 20 new personnel to the school. While I would like to list all their
names, let me introduce you to just a few.

We welcome Ms. Patty Fiorenza to grade 5. Ms. Fiorenza comes to us from
Countryside School where she has worked for the past four years in grade 4.
Ms. Fiorenza has already gotten herself comfortable at the school and is
sure to bring a wealth of knowledge, skills, and compassion to her work. Mr.
Amaya Rashad Adams is the newest grade 4 teacher on the team. Mr. Adams
recently taught grade 4 in a suburban district in Virginia. He was a much
sought after candidate in our district but Cabot School's reputation and
warm welcoming faculty lured him to 229 Cabot Street. Mr. Adams brings his
experiences as a conscientious, principled and well-trained teacher to our
community. Finally, we welcome Ms. Elizabeth Stahl to grade 2. Ms. Stahl has
been in and out of school most of the summer. She hails most recently from
the Cambridge Friends School where she taught first grade. Ms. Stahl has
impressed us with her depth of insight regarding young learners and her
knowledge about the variety of ways in which they learn. Her classroom
started with bare bones and she continues to create a sound structure to
support the excitement that comes when guiding the growth and development of
children.

In the next letter, I will highlight our new specialists and all the support
staff that make up Team Cabot!

 

As we open the doors next Thursday, you will note a few changes, if you are
a returning family! Given the 30 or so additional students and the
additional classes at grades 2 and 5, we are getting pretty full. The narrow
hallways are now the residence for essential school equipment including our
copying machines and audio-visual equipment. You may not be aware that with
the loss of a full size teacher's workroom and lunch room, loads of
equipments has been downsized, surplused and relocated to more public
spaces. The faculty and I are concerned, as teachers need a place to do
their work. We are struggling with how to keep the building accessible yet
relatively clear and safe so their work can happen. In the first few weeks
of school, we will begin to assess our entry and dismissal guidelines and
makes adjustments to support some reasonableness regarding these procedures
for the community.

 

A school should offer a vibrant environment that honors all members of the
community. Arriving at a balance between meeting the needs of teachers to do
their work, the needs of students to feel at ease to navigate a familiar
environment and be independent, and the needs of the community to feel
welcomed will be one of our major efforts this first month. In that light,
we start by asking parents to leave all strollers and other such items
outside. Please secure these items in traffic free areas near our entrances.
Bikes and other wheeled equipment. Scooters, roller blades, heelies, etc
have not been permitted at school for sometime due to outside congestion.
Your adherence to these requests will go a long way in making our days go
well.

 

To keep this first letter upbeat, I invite you to come out on Tuesday for
the Welcoming Family Picnic or to just stop by the office to say hello and
welcome back! The days of summer at first seem so many but as time proceeds,
the fond thoughts of life in the Cabot community come to mind and I start to
look forward to days filled with children and adults engaged in a
partnership that in my opinion is the best partnership in the world! Your
child is a special and unique human being and our pleasure is found in doing
our best work on their behalf! 

 

I look forward to giving each of you hardy and warm welcome!

See you real soon.

Sincerely,

 

Dr. Marilynne Smith Quarcoo

Principal

 

 

Compiled for you by the Cabot PTO

 

Jo Doherty

Cabot PTO Co-President

11 Leonard Avenue,

West Newton, MA 02465

617-332-1530

jcdoherty11 at comcast.net

 

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