Parent Meetings - Thank you to those who attended the Grade 6 Parent meeting last Tuesday evening! If you were not able to attend, but would like to share with me what you feel has been working well at Roderick School in the past as well as what we may want to look at to enhance the Roderick experience, please feel free to contact me this coming week. Next week, I will be holding forums for grade 5 parents and grade 4 parents. (Please read your email for more information.) Again, I would like to reiterate how helpful it is for me to have this time to hear from parents and I look forward to learning more this coming week as well!
World Smile Day!
Today, the Roderick School community celebrated World Smile Day, a day to focus on doing acts of kindness for one another and going the extra mile! In addition, all throughout the day today there were bursts of sunshine turning this dreary rainy day into a celebration of all that is good within each one of us. Compliments, holding the door for one another, helping someone carrying a heavy load, picking up items that dropped, asking someone to join in are all examples of the acts of kindness I saw today.
Students and staff participated in showing their positive, giving spirit by wearing yellow today!
There is a song called the Ballad of Harvey Ball (The Smiley Face Song), that tells the story of Harvey Ball, the creator of the famous "smiley face" who was born and raised in Worcester, MA. The lyrics explain the following:
"The moral of this story is to help the world to smile.
You do an act of kindness; you go the extra mile.
What you do comes back to you in a just a little while,
'Cause goodness is contagious and it's never out of style."
These are good reminders not only for the first Friday in October, but everyday. Remembering these words will help us to live out our core values of respect and responsibility. Many students also brought in goods to reach out beyond themselves and donate to the Wrentham Food Pantry, helping those within our Wrentham community. Thank you to Mrs. Marazzi's fourth grade class for collecting the goods and our parent volunteers for delivering the items to the Food Pantry!
More Roderick Acts of Kindness Coming...
We will be participating in the annual New England Patriots Charitable Foundation's Winter Coat Drive. In cooperation with Cradles to Crayons, the foundation is hoping to fulfill approximately 32,500 requests this year!
From October 1st through November 1st, we will be collecting new and gently used coats, mittens, gloves, and NEW hats. There are collection bins located in the entrances of both the Roderick and Delaney Schools.
Classroom Visits This Week:
6H...Students were learning about the different parts of a fish and labeling diagrams to help them during their studies at Camp Bournedale.
6D...Students rotated to different literacy centers continuing their study of Old Yeller, reading A Dog's Life, and reviewing the different genres of writing (narrative and expository) in preparation for their writing assignments in conjunction with their upcoming Bournedale adventure.
5K...students were deeply invested in their small book groups, working cooperatively to read the various texts gleaning additional information from the text about weather, the atmosphere, and the instruments that help us learn more. During this time, students worked together to come up with a collective understanding of what they had learned.
4Y...Students were "reading like writers" and identifying how the author of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo, was able to create such vivid descriptions in just one paragraph of something that can be so hard to define-"war." Analyzing the author's craft as they are reading will help to strengthen the students' writing as well.
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