The Greystone Glance

I am so happy to finally be able to invite everyone to a special breakfast next Friday, March 25th at 8:00 am in the Greystone Library! All families are welcome and I hope to see you all there!

Thank you all for another exciting and productive week! We appreciate the family support of our At Home Learning Day on Monday. Our faculty and staff were here learning and planning all kinds of great learning opportunities for the upcoming months.

As you know, it was also Pi Day on Monday, March 14th, and I love how Ms. Arianna asked her students to make a pie. They, of course, had the freedom to be creative and make one any way they preferred, such as out of playdough, or as a drawing.

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) is an annual March 21st celebration and global awareness day officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. March 21 (3/21) was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. Have your child wear fun, colorful socks Monday to help raise awareness.

March 25th is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day. It was originally created in 2006 by Reaching for the Stars (RFTS), a cerebral palsy advocacy group, and is meant to educate, push for inclusion, and find a cure for cerebral palsy. We will have a special assembly for grades K-2, along with IAS K-1 and IAS 2-3 on Friday. Wear green!

From March 21st to April 8th, Mr. Bello will be facilitating this wonderful program! Families should be receiving all necessary information soon.

As a Kid's Heart Challenge Heart Hero, your child will impact kids with special hearts and raise funds for the health of all hearts. They'll also get moving with fun activities, learn about keeping their hearts and minds healthy and the power of kindness!

SurveyWorks began on Tuesday, January 18th. It is important for all of us to participate by answering the SurveyWorks questions, because our answers provide meaningful feedback on how to improve Rhode Island Schools.

This is the family link bit.ly/ridefamily and it will ask you to choose our school from the drop down menu. Show us your proof of completion page either by a screenshot sent to caroline.crudale@npsd.k12.ri.us or photocopied page brought to school to be entered into a raffle to win a gift card to Market Basket.

Thank you so much Ms. Crudale for organizing and taking the lead on this!

This is the teacher link bit.ly/rideteacher and it will also ask you to choose our school from a drop-down menu.

Our next meeting is on April 12th at 6:30pm in person!

We are so grateful that they will be bringing the Scholastic Book Fair to our school on April 4th and 8th. It will be set up in Cafe Greystone aka Mr. Bello's 'gym' and students will visit during their regularly scheduled library time.

The next book club meeting will be on April 13th from 3:15-4:00 and the book being celebrated is Slacker by Gordon Korman.

We are in the process of planning an engaging family event for April 28th that will be focused on essential math learning, literacy, and FUN! There will be games and of course, refreshments! This event will be in person from 5:30pm -7:00pm and we hope to see you all there!

Our field day has been scheduled for Friday, June 10th and the rain date is Monday, June 13th.

We will focus on perseverance this month. There are many activities planned to support grades 3-5 as they prepare for and take the RICAS/RI and NGSA assessments. Mrs. Creamer has also created a beautiful virtual library which will be shared with teachers in the Teaching & Learning edition of The Greystone Glance.

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

-Winston Churchill

Failure is hard to swallow. It’s easy to keep track of the times when we fail. It seems as though everyone is waiting for that moment for you to fail; it even seems like they are keeping track! The truth is, the only one keeping track of your failures is you. If you’re not failing every now and then, you’re probably not growing. Your failure could be from you taking a risk and stepping out of the box. Today you might be feeling like nothing is going right. You want to throw your hands up in the air and just give up. It’s time to change your mindset about failure. Embrace failure by treating it as a strategic opportunity to learn. Analyze what happened and create a new plan.

Brayden from Mrs. Roberts class helped another student complete his morning work!

Noah I. from Mrs. Waterman's class made a card for a friend after he had a difficult day!

Juliette B. from Mrs. Graziano’s class came to school with French phrases written down so she could better comment with a student who speaks French!

Samantha C. brought a beautiful bouquet to her teacher, Mrs. Turcotte.

Sean H. from Ms. Lucca’s class drew pictures of all his teachers to cheer them up!

Xavier J. from Mrs. Waterman's class gave pencils to all his friends!

Jaxon D. from Mrs. Lucca's class helped a friend tie his shoe.

Robert C. from Ms. Reynolds' class helped his teacher carry a tray to his friend.

Ashlie M. from Mrs. Reynolds' class helped a friend who was sad by bringing him his shoe.

Annabelle Conti from Mrs. Lucca's class is always so kind and helpful towards her friends.

Dakota gave Mrs. Montecalvo a beautiful bookmark her grandmother made for her!

Email: jennifer.quattrucci@npsd.k12.ri.us
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Location: 100 Morgan Avenue, North Providence, RI, USA
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