Dear SHAY Families:

I hope this Happenings finds you and your family in good health and spirits.

Below you will find the following topics:

• May Lunch Menu

• Wait Until 8th

• Katie Greer - Wait Until 8th

• Twitter @SHAY_MrM (Stuck at 168 Followers...Next Goal 200)

• Mark-it-In-Your-Calendar ~Week 33

• Inspirational Quotes ~Teacher Appreciation

Sincerely, Jim (MrM)

Dear SHAY Families -

Passing the following information on to you...take a look. Personally I love this idea.

The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade.

Let’s protect the elementary and middle school years from the distractions and the dangers of a smartphone. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age. Ten years old is the average age children get their first smartphone. You can change this!

I think getting parents on board in the elementary years could be very powerful. This campaign also educates parents on alternative options for phones to use for necessity and or emergent reasons, without having all the power our phones currently offer for minds perhaps too young to know what to do with.

https://www.waituntil8th.org

Katie Greer - If you feel as though your child needs a phone before eighth grade, get them a flip phone without access to the internet. Access to a world of content is exposing our children to information they’re not mature enough to handle. Read this article written by a teacher that compares an eighth-grader today to one 10 years ago.

https://www.waituntil8th.org/blog/2018/11/12/middle-school-misfortunes-then-and-now-one-teachers-take

This podcast talks to parents about helping kids to be okay when they're uncomfortable.

Listener Question: My Daughter Panics About Things In Big Ways. What Is Going On?

https://www.flusterclux.com/listener-question-my-daughter-panics-about-things-in-big-ways-what-is-going-on/

Monday, May 6th (Specialist Day 5)

• TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK
• PBIS VISIT
• Unified Arts @2:00 ~ 1st Grade
• Common Planning Time @2:00 ~1st Grade: Teacher Led
• PBIS Super Ticket Celebration @8:45
• Social Implementation Team Meeting @3:15 ~Conference Room
• School Committee Meeting @7:00 ~AHS Library

Tuesday, May 7th (Specialists Day 6)

• TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK
• LOCKDOWN DRILL
• Unified Arts @2:00 ~2nd Grade
  
• Common Planning Time @2:00 ~2nd Grade: Teacher Led

Wednesday, May 8th (Specialists Day 1)

• TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK
• SCHOOL NURSE'S DAY

• Unified Arts @2:00 ~Kindergarten Grade
• Common Planning Time @2:00 ~Kindergarten: Teacher Led
• Kindergarten Field Trip @9:30 ~Spencer Pierce Little
• Amplify Desmos Presentation @3:30 ~SHAY Library

Thursday, May 9th (Specialists Day 2)

• TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK

• Unified Arts @2:00 ~1st Grade
• Common Planning Time @2:00 ~1st Grade: Principal Led
• Kindergarten Field Trip @9:30 ~Spencer Pierce Little
• PreK ASD Consult @2:00 ~Special Education Conference Room
• School Council @3:30 ~Conference Room

Friday, May 10 (Specialists Day 3)

• TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK
• Unified Arts @2:00 ~2nd Grade
• Common Planning Time @2:00 ~2nd Grade: Principal Led
• Grade Level Special Education Meeting @2:00 ~Special Education Conference Room
• Girls' Sweetheart Dance @6:30 ~CES

Sunday, May 12th ~Mother's Day

Email: james.montanari@amesburyma.org
Website: https://schools.amesburyma.gov/Domain/2539
Location: 193R Lions Mouth Road, Amesbury, MA 01913

Phone: 978-388-3659
Twitter: @SHAY_MrM