Moretown School Update May 24, 2019

Mandala making in PreK 

School News:

Wow! last week was busy!  Moretown school goes to the Arts! Here are some highlights:

Celebrating Paris Day!

enjoying some sweet treats in the french cafe.

Pont des Arts, love locks.

Spring Concert feels

Art show awesomeness!

Art appreciation.

MECA: 
Hi Everyone,

We are so excited to announce that we are having our MECA Childcare Open House on Tuesday, June 4th at the Moretown School in our MECA Classroom at the Moretown Elementary School, Room 16. Our door will be open from 5:30p-6:30p for folks to come on by and meet our staff, play, and ask any MECA childcare related questions. We hope to see you all here! 

If this upcoming year is not your child's first year of preschool here at Moretown please feel free to come by, share your wisdom with newcomers and meet new friends!

School Board

Subject:  Next Week is Last Week of HUUSD Vision Conversations!

We would like to thank all who have participated in the community conversations we have had so far, and invite all others to join us next week at one of the final sessions!

THE NEXT AND LAST EVENTS ARE:

• Tuesday, May 28, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Moretown Elementary School
• Wednesday, May 29, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Crossett Brook Middle School

We have been pleased to work closely with the community in these positive and engaging conversations designed to help us formulate the new vision for our district. We have gotten great feedback about them from participants, as well.

Please come and bring a friend! We would love an RSVP but it is not required!! [link to RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSVP_CommunityConversations]

As always, thank you for engaging with us about education in our district.

Sincerely,

The HUUSD School Board

Moretown School Update May 17, 2019

Post-SBAC Apples to Apples

School News:

• Hopscotch in Ms. Heather's classroom:
  
  
  
  

• Preschoolers from Ms. Jenny's class shared their books with their buddies in Mrs. Puffer's class!

Creating, writing, sharing... More community, Moretown.

Bataille Bulletin

• color tag in the gym.  PE classes got outside this week too!!!

All that Jazz

• The Spring Concert is this Wednesday May 22, at 6:00!  See you then!

Monster Mash:

 Book Fair is Here!

The Spring theme is:

The Moretown Elementary DINO-MITE Book Fair: Stomp, Chomp, and Read!

The Fall Book Fair will be held on:

Day	Date	Time
Thursday	May 16th	7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Friday	May 17th	7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Monday	May 20th	CLOSED
Tuesday	May 21st	CLOSED
Wednesday	May 22nd	7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday	May 23rd	7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Friday	May 24th	7:30 am - 12:00 pm

I hope you are having a great week,

David

Bonjour

• Paris Day 2019- Monday May 20.... stay tuned for pics!

I Heart Art

• District wide art show opens next Friday May 24 at Lareau Farm.

Community News

School Board

SUBJECT: May HUUSD meetings: Community Participation Sought!

Dear HUUSD school communities,

Instead of our usual “board meeting recap” for this week, we want to let you know of the many ways to stay informed and engaged as the board moves forward with district plan and bond work, as well as development of a new vision statement for the district.

1 - Keep track of where we are in our process on the “District Plan/Bond Project” page of the HUUSD website.

2 - Read the report prepared by HUUSD Director of Finance, Michelle Baker, on Projected Cost Per Equalized Pupil and Homestead Tax Rates, found online here. Hard copies of this report will be available at all HUUSD Town Offices by May 17.

3 - Watch the May 15 or May 22 meeting videos which include the level service projections presentation by the Director of Finance (noted in #2 above), available through Mad River Television./)

4 - Attend our May 22 meeting at 6:00 in the Harwood Library. The first 90 minutes will be a public forum for community members to hear about the district’s level service projections (noted in #2 above) and share their impressions and questions in small group discussions with board members.  

5 - Email the full board with thoughts and questions at cen-huusdboard@wwsu.org

6 - Subscribe to receive email updates directly by clicking on the News Subscriptions link found at wwsu.org or by clicking here.

7 - Please also join one of our Visioning Community Conversations. Next week, we’ll hold two conversations on Tuesday, May 21: 9:00 - 10:30 am at the Waitsfield Town Office and from 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Warren Elementary School.  Community members are invited to come to any conversation that can fit in their schedule, regardless of their town of residence. RSVPs requested, but not required.

8 - Moving forward there will be additional opportunities for engagement and input as we work to develop a PreK through 12 district plan that will get us to a bond vote for Town Meeting Day 2020. Please refer to the timeline on PreK-12/Bond webpage, meeting agendas and board packets for information on upcoming work. As always these will be posted within 48 hours of our meetings, which are generally held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. Please refer to the HUUSD events calendar found on the main page of the district website to confirm meetings or determine when others might be held.

Thank you for your continued engagement and support.

The HUUSD board of directors

Moretown School Update May 10, 2019

School News:

Bus Evacuation- 5th/6th graders showing us how it is done.

It was a rainy week, but that didn't stop us.  Preschool braved the wet and had a great ECO!

• Please take a few minutes to complete the Climate Survey:
•  Moretown Elementary School — Parent Survey Link

http://www.schoolclimate.net?l=e&t=p&v=4&c=1194114

• A group of families will be meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at 1:45ish behind Moretown school to plant some beautiful fruit trees.  Come join them make these wonderful additions to the school grounds.  

• A special thank you to John Hooganboom and the Waterbury Rotary for a donation of a lovely plum tree to celebrate Arbor Day.  It will be an awesome addition to the garden work and fruit trees going in this weekend!

• SBAC testing starts on Monday for grades 3-6.  Linked is the letter sent to families for your reference.

Monster Mash

• This week in library we read the book Hug Time by Patrick McDonnell. It is a lovely book and the kids really seemed to enjoy it. One of the messages in the story was about how we can each make the world a better place. After we finished reading the kids were asked what was one thing could they do to make the world a better place. Here is what they came up with…
  
  
  
  
  
  Ms. Jenny’s Classes
  
  
  Have a swimming party for friends.
  The cat is hugging the world.
  Hug the world.
  Hug the beach Hug my brother.
  Hug a scribble in a fishtank.
  Make a flower.
  Giving the Earth a hug.
  Holding someone's hand.
  Picking up trash on greenup day.
  Putting bottles and cans into the recycling.
  Ride a unicorn.
  Petting a whale.
  Make more princesses.
  Help clean up the Earth.
  Caring about the Earth.
  Loving the Earth.
  Being a superhero and saving the world.
  Help seeds grow.
  Being a superhero and making no cyclones in Kansas.
  Help vacuum and with house chores.
  
  
  
  Ms. VonTrapp’s Class
  
  
  Plant a flower.
  Hug my dog Goose.
  Hug Mama.
  I can give everyone a special button.
  Hug my daddy and play with my friends.
  Hug Mommy and Daddy.
  Hug.
  Hug Dada
  Teach kids to care.
  Plant flowers.
  Hug my mommy and daddy and David
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• The end of the school year can be a hectic time in the library. Final overdue notices to students and staff will be sent out the last week of May.  Students and staff are asked to return all materials.  Library materials are not to be checked out two weeks from the projected last day of school. Student may continue to use the library materials in the library during this time. 

Bonjour

• Back by popular demand is Paris Day.  Coming to Moretown School Monday May 20, 2019

PTO

• The PTO is still collecting Box Tops for Education.  Send them in, or drop them off.  They add up fast!

Community News

Please note that the opportunities/events listed below are not specifically endorsed or screened by school staff. As always, families should use their own standards and review processes to determine appropriate activities.

The Valley Players Present HARVEY  a hilarious three-act comedy, May 31-June 16, Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.Tickets are $16 for evening shows and $12 for the matinee.

Free Parent Workshop: Helping Your Kids to Be all That They Can Be June 6th, 6-8pm, Crossett Brook Middle School Cafeteria. Come join us for a night of parenting support and laughter with Charlie Appelstein as we learn positive strength-based approaches to growing our children to be the best that they can be.  We will look at many topics including the decoding of problem behavior, mindset changing, self-esteem building, helping inflexible/explosive children, humor at home, limit setting, logical consequences and so much more. Please RSVP to Moie Moulton LaRock atmmoulton@huusd.org .  Walk ins are also welcome.  Free childcare will be provided at Moretown School.  Childcare space is limited and slots will be first come first serve so please let Moie know if you would like to reserve a spot.

Art Show, Social and Fundraiser for Waitsfield Children's Center   May 16, at The Mad River Barn, with raffle drawing at 6:30.  The raffle prize is seven nights lodging in a one bedroom Condo anywhere within the Interval International Timeshare Network with locations world wide and throughout New England donated by Eagles Resort. All ticket sales benefit The Waitsfield Children's Center. Fifteen percent of food sales will also benefit the Waitsfield Children's Center.

School Board

https://wwsu.org/huusd-board

“3 Word” Conversations......

BACKGROUND: These community conversations are the next step in our plan to develop a vision and goals for the HUUSD district.  It follows the community-wide survey which closed on April 12 and received over 700 responses. We expect to publish results of the survey and conversations in June 2019, and develop a first draft of the vision/goals in time for the board retreat, which will occur sometime in August 2019.  The hope is for the board to finalize the vision/goals in the Fall of 2019.

FUTURE DATES:

If you cannot join us tomorrow, consider joining one of these events - going outside of the town in which you live is encouraged!!

• Monday, May 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Fayston Elementary School
• Tuesday, May 21, 9:00 - 10:30 am (DAYTIME) at the Waitsfield Town Office
• Tuesday, May 21, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Warren Elementary School
• Tuesday, May 28, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Moretown Elementary School
• Wednesday, May 29, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Crossett Brook Middle School

You can RSVP to a future date using this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSVP_CommunityConversations

As always, thank you for engaging with us about education in our district!

The HUUSD School Board

Moretown School Update May 3, 2019

Check out our Scribble Exhibit in the Library

PTO

 

Coffee Connection

We had some great conversations at the first ever Coffee Connection! Make sure you stop in and join us for some FREE COFFEE on the first Friday in June for our second Coffee Connection!

Incredible Donation

An amazing thing happened Friday night!  All Four valley PTOs were gratuitously chosen by Lawson's Finest Liquids to be the recipients of the amazing tip program. For two weeks, four PTOs were described to visitors, many out of state, by the amazing staff here in order to garner interest in supporting each of our local nonprofits. The wonderful things that can be accomplished with this money are going to be incredibly special and make an impact. But perhaps just as wonderful was the collaboration time, time spent with the Presidents of each valley PTO discussing experiences and brainstorming and how we can continue to get together. Lawson’s was the catalyst to this wonderful collaboration and it will certainly become something we do more of (the amazing beer helps that!)!

A heartfelt thank you to the Lawson’s, especially Karen, who made this happen and appreciated how special it would be to have all the valley PTOs together in this!

Community News

Free Parent Workshop: Helping Your Kids to Be All That They Can Be June 6th, 6-8pm, Crossett Brook Middle School Cafeteria. Come join us for a night of parenting support and laughter with Charlie Appelstein as we learn positive strength-based approaches to growing our children to be the best that they can be.  We will look at many topics including the decoding of problem behavior, mindset changing, self-esteem building, helping inflexible/explosive children, humor at home, limit setting, logical consequences and so much more. Please RSVP to Moie Moulton LaRock at mmoulton@huusd.org .  Walk-ins are also welcome.  Free childcare will be provided at Moretown School.  Childcare space is limited and slots will be first come first serve so please let Moie know if you would like to reserve a spot.
 

Art Show, Social, and Fundraiser for Waitsfield Children's Center   May 16, at The Mad River Barn, with a raffle drawing at 6:30.  The raffle prize is seven nights lodging in a one bedroom Condo anywhere within the Interval International Timeshare Network with locations worldwide and throughout New England donated by Eagles Resort. All ticket sales benefit The Waitsfield Children's Center. Fifteen percent of food sales will also benefit the Waitsfield Children's Center.

School Board

Subject:   HUUSD Community Conversations / “3 Word Survey” Results

The HUUSD Board has finalized the schedule for community conversations to debrief and delve deeper into the results of the "3 Word Survey."  We hope you can attend one of the following “Community Conversations” - and please note we encourage you to attend an event outside of the town in which you live!

• Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 - 8:00 pm, at Harwood Union High School
• Thursday, May 9, 12:00 - 1:30 pm (DAYTIME) at the Waterbury Municipal Office / Steele Community Room
• Monday, May 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Fayston Elementary School
• Tuesday, May 21, 9:00 - 10:30 am (DAYTIME) at the Waitsfield Town Office
• Tuesday, May 21, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Warren Elementary School
• Tuesday, May 28, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Moretown Elementary School
• Wednesday, May 29, 6:00 - 7:30 pm at Crossett Brook Middle School

RSVPS REQUESTED! Although all are welcome to come at any time, we are requesting that people RSVP to help us plan for facilitation and space needs.  You can RSVP here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSVP_CommunityConversations

BACKGROUND: These community conversations are the next step in our plan to develop a vision and goals for the HUUSD district.  It follows the community wide survey which closed on April 12 and received over 700 responses. We expect to publish results of the survey and conversations in June 2019, and develop a first draft of the vision/goals in time for the board retreat, which will occur sometime in August 2019.  The hope is for the board to finalize the vision/goals in the Fall of 2019.

As always, thank you for engaging with us about education in our district!

Sincerely,

The HUUSD School Board