Principal, Karen Lindquist - klindquist@maynard.k12.ma.us

Assistant Principal, Kate Murray - kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Kathy Sullivan - ksullivan@maynard.k12.ma.us

Administrative Assistant- Nancy Dangelo - ndangelo@maynard.k12.ma.us

School Nurse, Maria Bourgeois - mbourgeois@maynard.k12.ma.us

Main Office Line - (978) 897-8246

Absentee Phone Line - (978)897-0310

10/18 - Early Release Day, GM dismissal 11:45 AM, No PreK

10/19 - PTO Pumpkin Palooza Family Event, more details to come

10/25 - Early Release Day, GM dismissal 11:45 AM, No PreK

10/25 - Parent Conferences, Teachers will share a schedule

10/28-11/8 - Preschool Autumn Art Celebration, details below

10/31 - Green Meadow Autumn Walk, 8:45 AM, Grades K-3

11/5 - Election Day, No School for Students, Staff PD day

11/8 - Green Meadow Veteran's Day Breakfast

11/20 - Picture Retake Day

12/13 - Winter Concert for Grades 1-3, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

4/8 - 4/9 - Grade 3 ELA MCAS testing

5/6 - 5/7 - Grade 3 Math MCAS testing

During Parent-Teacher Conferences, you will hear teachers refer to structured literacy and for many parents this term may not be familiar. Structured literacy refers to a systematic, explicit approach to reading instruction that includes all of the components necessary to develop reading skills, including foundational skills (phonemic awareness, phonics, sight recognition) and higher-level literacy skills (comprehension, verbal reasoning, written expression). During a structured literacy lesson teachers explicitly teach students phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills using decodable text. Lessons are designed to build skills identified in the assessment data collected. As students become more fluent readers other types of text structures are introduced to develop skills and transition students from learning to read to reading to learn. Structured literacy lessons are part of our tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 instruction. For more information, please click on the article below.

Thursday October 24th is World Polio Day. Rotary International has been working to eliminate Polio for the past 35 years and the world has been getting very close to that goal with Polio now endemic in only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Maynard Public Schools has partnered with Middlesex Savings Bank, and our local Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley as we assist with the drive to end Polio once and for all.

Purple Pinky Day is a fundraiser where families across the United States give $1.00, or whatever they think is best, to pay for inoculating kids in the developing countries where Polio still exists. Best of all, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation matches $2 for every $1 raised so your money will go even farther. It costs $1 to inoculate 1 child. Your dollar, coupled with the matching funds, will help ensure 3 children are protected against Polio. Middlesex Savings will conduct the counting, and provide a bank check for the funds and the bank has once again also provided all the envelopes we use.

The envelopes went home in backpacks today and can be returned to school anytime between October 18th-October 25. 100% of the funds collected here in Maynard will be donated to the campaign to eradicate Polio.

Teachers will be sharing sign-ups for conferences during the last two weeks of October. Our early release day on October 25, is dedicated to these meetings but teachers will post additional time slots throughout the two weeks depending on their availability. Please be sure to sign up to a time to discuss your child's start to the school year. If you would like translation services during your conference and your child's teacher has not already contacted you about setting this up, please let your child's teacher know as soon as possible.

Preschool will celebrate autumn by inviting one caregiver per child during an art class with Green Meadow art teacher Taylor Vanaria from 10:05 to 10:20 am at the end of October and in early November. Please see RSVP details in an incoming email from your child's pre-k teacher soon. If this celebration conflicts with your schedule, rest assured that other opportunities to visit the classroom will be offered throughout the year. Happy fall!

Ms. DiLuca: Monday, October 28

Ms. Viros: Tuesday, October 29

Ms. Cohen: Thursday, November 7

Ms. Gonsalves: Friday, November 8.

For more information about our new school building project, please visit:

https://www.maynard.k12.ma.us/o/green-meadow-school/page/gm-building-project-information

We continue to meet and work through the MSBA design development process. We recently held a hybrid meeting to share where we are in the process.

Click on the link to read the lastest school lunch menu options: https://www.fdmealplanner.com/

Calling All New Families - Check out our PTO website and join our email list to stay on top of news and events. We can't wait for you to get involved!

https://greenmeadowpto.membershiptoolkit.com/

The next PTO meeting will be virtual on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:00. Please see the PTO website for the meeting link.

Come celebrate the Fall season with friends at the Green Meadow Pumpkin Palooza on Saturday, October 19, 12:00 - 2:00, at Green Meadow. Costumes are welcome. There will be a petting zoo from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. This event is free to Green Meadow Families!

ELPAC (English Learner Parent Advisory Council) Resources

SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) Resources

Multilingual Learner Resources

SEPAC is collaborating with other districts to offer a webinar about planning for post-graduation planning for students on IEPs on October 30, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. Please use the link below to sign-up for the event.

https://nesca-newton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__erGkhPCR7iSpRY_kMYSzg

Maynard High School's Leaders for Change is hosting a Halloween event on Sunday, October 20.

The Open Table Food Pantry (www.opentable.org; 33 Main St, Maynard) is open on Tuesdays, 3:30 - 6:30 PM and Thursdays, 1 - 4:30 PM and offers free bags of groceries 1x/week. Open Table also allows families to pick up frozen meals for family members weekly.

The Maynard Food Pantry (www.maynardfoodpantry.com; 82 Main St., Maynard) is open on Mondays from 10 AM - 12 noon 1-2x/month

The Maynard Food Pantry offers a weekly Backpack Program for all students in PreK-Grade 5 that aims to offer food assistance to families. Each backpack is filled with nutritious, non-perishable food at no cost. Forms were sent home to families in backpacks last week. If you need a form, they are available in the Green Meadow main office. You can also request one by emailing Kate Murray at kmurray@maynard.k12.ma.us.

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