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This week's events and newsworthy items from the Plymouth Public Schools

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Students have submitted videos for our first-ever Film Festival! Judges will now start to watch the videos as we prepare to honor participants and winners at the Film Festival Celebration on December 5th. We would love to have your support in inspiring the next generation of filmmakers! Learn how you can become a Film Festival sponsor. Reach out to Emily Goonan at egoonan@plymouth.k12.ma.us today!

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On Tuesday December 3, 2019 the Plymouth Youth Development Collaborative will be hosting a community showing of If They Had Known at Plymouth South High School in the Performing Arts Center. This 30-minute documentary focuses on the risk of current party culture and works to educate students on the dangers associated with substance use. All are welcome.

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Come celebrate Mrs. Jezierski's Community Art Class at the Main Street Mural Ribbon Cutting!

Kudos to the PCIS Literacy Support Team for another amazing celebration of literacy this week! Both Literacy Day and Literacy Expo were a great hit. Thank you to all the presenters and guests who helped us recognize the importance of literacy in our daily lives!

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Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=753
Location: 117 Long Pond Road, Plymouth, MA 02360
Facebook: facebook.com/peccplymouth

This week we had middle school greeters as the preschoolers came in. The middle schoolers are from the Gemini wing at PCIS and were recognized for their kindness. They definitely spread some kindness to our little preschoolers each morning. Miss Jen our physical therapist put together a fun motor activity outside for the kids. The kids first raked up all the leaves into a big pile. Then they took turns jumping in the pile, followed by laying down and taking some deep breath’s to calm back down after all the excitement. In MissJamie’s room students made beautiful fall trees with their handprints and painted puzzle pieces. Happy fall!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/cse
Location: 25 Alden Street, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4335
Facebook: facebook.com/csesplymouth

As part of a Leader In Me School, Cold Spring has been working to beautify the building with positive messages to promote leadership. The Student Lighthouse Team has been working over the past few weeks to paint these motivating quotes onto the walls.

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=21
Location: 860 Federal Furnace Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4360
Facebook: facebook.com/FederalFurnace/

Coming next week!!! Book fair will be starting next week 11/20-11/22!!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/Page/19
Location: 258 Standish Avenue, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4340
Facebook: facebook.com/hesplymouth

Students in grades 4 & 5 welcomed local Veterans during an intimate ceremony on Tuesday. They shared their appreciation to our guests through letters, songs and art work that was shared during the ceremony.

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=23
Location: 1181 State Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4370
Facebook: facebook.com/ibesplymouth

This week we celebrated World Kindness Day! We made ourselves the “i” in kind, write letters to our 4th grease buddies, and introduced the classroom kindness box where students share when someone was kind to them.

Students in Mrs. McGinnis’ and Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s second grade have been learning about Non-Fiction books. They learned about text features while reading many different books. After selecting a topic each student is researching and writing an “All About” book on their topic.

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=25
Location: 70 Manomet Point Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4380
Facebook: facebook.com/mesplymouth

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=27
Location: 6 Lincoln Street, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4320
Facebook: facebook.com/nmesplymouth

We are excited to share photos from last week's National STEAM Day Celebration! (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics)

Another HUGE thank you to our dedicated teachers who created such an incredible day of engaging activities and learning opportunities for our kiddos!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=29
Location: 178 Bourne Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: 508-830-4390
Facebook: facebook.com/sesplymouth

We love to share what kids are doing, but did you know that our SES teachers never stop learning and adding to their own classroom libraries?

This morning 4th and 5th grade teachers kicked off their Friday with 'Books and Breakfast', perusing new texts to use with the topics in our social studies units of study!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=31
Location: 170 Plympton Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: 508-830-4350
Facebook: facebook.com/wesplym

Remember to bring in new pajamas for our pajama drive. We hope to see you next week at our Great Bedtime Story Night on Thursday, November 21st at 6:30!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=13
Location: 117 Long Pond Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: 508-830-4450
Facebook: facebook.com/pcisfalcons
Twitter: @PCISFalcon

Middle school engineering teachers provided a day of engineering for the exchange students from Milan Italy.

8th grade Algebra students from Ranger practice solving multi-step inequalities during a scavenger hunt.

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=15
Location: 488 Long Pond Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: 508-224-2725
Facebook: facebook.com/Plymouth-South-Middle-School-790839991027709/
Twitter: @PSMSprincipal

The tech ed rooms at PSMS were buzzing with activity on Wednesday. Twenty-eight middle school students from the Collegio San Carlo in Milan, their four teachers, and four tech ed teachers from Plymouth middle schools spent the day exploring technology.

One activity was using ozobots, which are tiny programmable robots, to follow a hand-drawn maze and to knock down bowling pins. Then the ozogroove app was used on an iPad - imagine ozobots at a dance party!

Lego Mindstorms kits were used to build and program larger robots to move across the floor, pick up a tube, and take it back to where it started from.

Hand tools were used to build a mousetrap car with CDs for wheels. After assembly was complete, the car was tested to see how far it would travel. Tweaks could be made to the car to try to increase the distance.

Lastly, there was an augmented reality station where students, using iPads, could see and walk around 3D objects as if they were physically in the classroom. Students also used the iPads to go on an AR scavenger hunt. Students at this station also built creations to hover in the KODO wind tube.

Ilaria’s favorite activity was the mousetrap car. She said it was fun to make, she got to use a drill, and her group came in 2nd place! Carola liked the ozobots best; by drawing colored lines in a certain order, she could make them go faster, slower, or turn like a tornado.

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=9
Location: 41 Obery Street, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4400
Facebook: facebook.com/pnhseagles
Twitter: @PlymouthNorthHS

The Plymouth North Players presented “The Servant of Two Masters” on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th. Thank you and congratulations to the cast and crew for all of the hard work that they put in to making this an amazing and entertaining evening.

Students’ art work from Plymouth North was entered into the Art Show at the Pine Hills. There were 3 awards given out and North students Kady Whynott won second place and Jillian Webster received honorable mention and was recognized for their work. 4/5 students were able to attend, their work was phenomenal, and it was very well received! Congratulations!

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=11
Location: 490 Long Pond Road, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: 508-224-7512
Facebook: facebook.com/pshspanthers
Twitter: @plymouthsouth

Plymouth South students attended DECA Day on the Hill at the State House alongside other Mass DECA chapters. The event stressed the importance of working relationships with elected government officials, and Plymouth South DECA was presented a citation by Mathew Muratore for "The commitment and success of the students and advisors of the Plymouth South High School DECA Program in preparing emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management." We then sat in on the House of Representatives debate that ended in a nation-leading vote banning flavored tobacco products on Wednesday.

This past Tuesday, students and staff were entertained upon their arrival at school by Plymouth's Jazz Band. Led by teacher Mrs. Sue Lindsay, the students are Gabe Logan, Joe Delano and Connor Cyr. They did a wonderful job and we look forward to more groups participating in the future.

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