[CabotCommunity] JabberLite for Tuesday, October 31st

[Jo Doherty]

JABBERLITE   TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006

 

This Jabberlite contains information about:

Next PTO Meeting

Blue Zone Plea - REAL concerns about our childrens safety at pickup - Do's &
Don't in the Blue Zone

Update on Cabot Space Crunch

Understanding Our Differences, Grade 4th  - 3 Volunteers needed for November
9th

Social Action's Unicef Collection & Rosie's Candy Drive

Cabot School Emergency Forms

Directory Update

Donor Angels Holiday Gift Drive

Lost And Found - now emptied at the end of the month so grab your stuff now
before it gets cleared!!

 

 

Upcoming Dates

A complete & updated calendar for all events for the year can be found at
www.cabotpto.org <http://www.cabotpto.org/>   

 


October 31, 2006

Wellness Day


October 31, 2006

Morning School Entry Procedures and Classroom Routines Meeting 8:35 - 9:10AM


October 31, 2006

Halloween UNICEF Collection


October 31, 2006

CASP Haunted House 4 - 5:15PM Gym


November 1, 2006

PTO Launch "Campaign for Cabot"


November 1 to Nov 2 

UNICEF Collection and PTO Rosie's Candy Drive


November 2, 2006

Making Peace with Autism 7:30 PM Education Center, 100 Walnut Street


November 7, 2006

Election Day and Bake Sale


November 7, 2006

Child Assault Prevention Meeting for parents at Horace Mann 7:00 - 8:30PM


November 7, 2006

PTO Meeting, 8:40 AM


November 9, 2006

Grade 5 Circus


November 9, 2006

Understanding our Differences Grade 4  1:00 - 2:45 PM


November 10, 2006

Veterans Day, NO SCHOOL


November 13, 2006

School Committee Meeting, 7:30pm 


November 14, 2006

Parent to Parent Series, Partnerships Between Parents/Guardians & Teachers


November 15, 2006

CASP Open Board Meeting, Time TBA, Gym


   

 

Next PTO Meeting

The minutes of the first two PTO meeting of the year are now posted online
at www.cabotpto.org <http://www.cabotpto.org/>   Take a 

few minutes to read up on what your PTO is doing to benefit your child's
experience at Cabot. 

Don't forget to join us at our next PTO meeting on Tuesday November 7th at
8:40am in the Library. 

 

BLUE ZONE PLEA

I don't know about you, but I'm very concerned about the safety of our
children at pick-up.. 

Take a moment to read this & let's prevent an accident from happening to one
of our children.

 

ALL OF US - and I mean us adults - need to take a moment to re-evaluate how
we drive and behave outside Cabot 

at drop-off and particularly at pick-up. We all could make excuses for why
we do things BUT please

 

-         DO NOT use or block in any of the neighbor driveways - that's just
courtesy & common sense;

-         Drive slowly down Parkview Street outside school - it is a SCHOOL
ZONE!

-         Do you know there is a crosswalk opposite the lobby entrance -
don't park on it!

-         During school hours Parkview is a ONE-WAY street!!!!!

-         Observe NO PARKING zones on Bridges Ave (behind school by the
faculty parking lots)

-         Don't use the Blue Zone as a parking space - cars are NOT TO BE
LEFT UNATTENDED!!!!

 

We are ALL part of the Cabot community - so let's model behaviors we want
our children to emulate. 

Do you have ideas as to how things can work better? Do you grumble about the
rules for the Blue Zone? Then help 

devise a better system. We NEED a team of parents who can brainstorm how to
make the streets safe around CABOT.

Interested? Contact Daphne Potter  dfpotter at rcn.com or your PTO Presidents.

 

 

CABOT SPACE CRUNCH UPDATE

At the recent public interactive forum the School Committee heard from
concerned parents, many from Cabot. 

The Cabot PTO strongly affirmed a desire to keep our students, faculty and
community intact and advocated for 

modular space as a short term solution. However, it is possible that Cabot
will not be given a modular building. 

If this happens the School Committee will have some significant and
difficult choices to make. The Cabot PTO has 

constructed a survey to capture our community's views which will enable us
to provide guidance to the 

Newton School Committee and help them make more informed decisions about the
solutions they will ultimately 

recommend. The survey will go on-line later this week & you will have a week
in which to complete the survey.

Keep an eye out for the flyer coming home this week with all the details.

Our voices count - make your voice heard!!

 

UNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES, 4TH GRADE

 This program will be running a segment on Thursday, November 9th from 1pm
to 2:45pm on "Understanding Our Differences". 

To be able to run this segment 3 volunteers parents are needed from each 4th
grade to run various work stations: 

(1) writing looking through a mirror (2) a memory game (3) listening and
following instructions while noise is occurring. 

If you could help out please contact Rick Reilly 617 332 3006 by Friday
November 3rd. This is an opportunity for you 

to be involved with the school in a meaningful way. The more participation,
the better the learning experience will be for your 

child and all the children in the 4th grade classes.

 

SOCIAL ACTION'S UNICEF COLLECTION BOXES & Rosie's Candy Drive

Remember to take your Unicef collection boxes with you trick or treating on
Halloween night. Please exchange any coins 

collected to a check payable to "UNICEF" which will be collected when the
school doors open on November 1st & 2nd. 

At the same time Social Action will be once again collecting donated
Halloween candy for delivery to Rosie's Place, so bring 

Along part of your collected stash from trick or treating!! 

 

Cabot School EMERGENCY Forms

Thanks very much to all the room parents who have been of tremendous help in
gathering all the School forms which needed 

to be returned. Everybody's patience has been much appreciated & we know
that we are all working towards having all the 

A4 yellow emergency contact forms returned. Remember it is these forms the
office uses in an emergency situation to contact YOU!

Our thanks goes to Joanne Gatnik, a Cabot Kindergarten parent, who has
volunteered to brainstorm a more efficient & 

streamlined process for next year with the help of Alice Cunningham in the
office.

If you haven't returned your emergency form for each of your children please
do so ASAP.

 

CABOT PTO DIRECTORY

 By this time next week you should be the proud recipient of this year's
edition of the Cabot Directory. A huge thank you goes to 

Jenny Gamson, a Cabot 4th & 2nd grade parent who has diligently been
entering this information and compiling the Directory. And a 

special thank you to Rick Reilly, Cabot parent volunteer, who this year has
been responsible for our advertising sales. There will be a 

LIMITED number of extra copies available, so if you want a directory & did
not yet join the PTO please fill out your PTO Dues form 

& leave it in the PTO mailbox in the office. Extra forms are available
online at http://www.cabotpto.org <http://www.cabotpto.org/>  under 

Jabberwock/News  Welcome Packet - Dues & Volunteer Form (Word doc).

 

DONOR ANGELS HOLIDAY GIFT DRIVE 

Cabot will again this year participate in the Community Service Gift Drive
for the Second Step program. This is an opportunity for 

you & your family to send a gift to a deserving child for the holidays.
Fliers will be coming home in your child's backpacks within the 

next week with a return form if you would like to participate and the amount
you would like to donate for a gift. Once the forms have 

been processed you will receive a confirmation of your participation
identifying the specified gift you will need to buy and return to 

Cabot on the date identified on the flier. Thanks in advance for
participating.  This program was a great success last year.  

The families of the Second Step were very appreciative and happy with the
help they received.  

If you have any questions please contact Rose Flynn roda at gis.net 

 

LOST AND FOUND

We have been telling you for the past month that the lost and found bin in
the front lobby will from now on be emptied at the end of 

each month. This is largely due to the incredible number of items now
finding their way into Lost & Found, & the schools inability to 

store these items or have the time to track down their owners. So be aware
you had better come quick to find Johnny's sweatshirt or Jane's

fleece before the whole lot gets carted away to a good home!!

 

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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