February 2025 Newsletter

Hearts are very important like candy hearts, paper hearts, and even hand signal hearts! But the most important heart is the one inside our bodies. Movement, healthy eating, and self-care are some ways we can care of our hearts.

Some ways I like to keep my heart healthy is through movement. Enjoy and dance along to these moose-ical moose videos. Who doesn't love a dancing moose?!

February 7th to the 14th is Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week so please join us on February 14th and wear red in support of Congenital Heart Defect awareness.

To end our Heart Health Month, we will celebrate our healthy hearts together as a school at our annual Cub Cafe. Our students will eat heart healthy food together for breakfast. Hudson Valley Fresh will be bringing their calf again and the Cornell Cooperative will talk to us about the importance of agriculture. Larry Anthony, our Food Service Director, will be doing a food demo for our students, and our own FFA students from Stissing Mountain will be here to help serve breakfast. Nicole from the Rural Center Refillery in Pine Plains will also join us to lead an earth friendly activity to help support our healthy hearts. We look forward to this joyful event to end our month celebrating hearts!

Last month, we celebrated friendship. Students in Ms. Mobijohn's class expressed what it meant to be a friend and how we can be a good friend to each other.

This month we are celebrating kindness! February 17th is National Random Acts of Kindness Day. These random acts of kindness can be as simple as a "thank you" or a smile when passing someone in the hallway. Please see the flyer coming home for ways that you can help spread kindess here at CSELC! Who will you give a random act of kindness to on this day?

February is also Black History Month. In a diverse world, it is important to celebrate each other for what makes us different and unique. Last month, we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his message of peace and equality. This month, you can help by celebrating with us at your local library. Check out a book for your train loving child based on engineer Elijah McCoy, inventor of an oil lubricant for steam engines for locomotives and ships. For the airplane enthusiasts, check out a book about aviator Bessie Coleman, the first African American civilian issued a pilot's license. If your child is a gymnast, take some time to learn about Misty Copeland, who became the first female African American principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. For our scientists and mathematicians, Katherine Johnson was one of the first African American women to work as a scientist at NASA.

100 days of learning! What an accomplishment! Our tentative 100th Day of School is on Thursday, February 13th. We will celebrate by dressing like we are 100 years old with 100 years of wisdom. Looking forward to seeing all the wise ones on the 13th.

Did you know that there is a new app that helps individuals with developmental disabilities and those who support them? It is called Abilibee - and was recently created by Abilities First. Visit abilibee.org to download the app. With Abilibee, you get the tools and resources to support individuals from early childhood through adulthood - and it is free!

A reminder from the Health Office; if you take your child for their annual well visit or to receive immunizations, please send a copy of their Physical and/or Immunization Record to Nurse Heath so she can update your child's school medical record. If you have taken your child since the start of school and cannot remember if you submitted their paperwork, please contact Nurse Heath in the Health Office.

February 2nd- Groundhog Day

February 5th- BoE Meets- Budget Presentations

February 13th- 100th Day of School Celebration- Dress like you're 100 years old!

February 14th- Wear Red for Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

February 14th- Valentine's Day

February 15th-SRO Appreciation Day

February 17th- National Random Acts of Kindness Day/ President's Day No School

February 19th- BoE Meets

February 1st- National Dark Chocolate Day- mmm yum!

February 2nd- National Groundhog Day- will there be a shadow seen?!

February 2nd- National Wear Red Day- to raise awareness about heart disease in women

February 9th- National Pizza Day

February 11th- Football Fans Unite- maybe make some soup for Super Bowl

February 14th- Valentine's Day

February 17th- National Acts of Kindness Day

February 19th- President's Day

February 21st- National Pancake Day

February 27th- National Strawberry Day- a healthy fruit for Heart Health Month!

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