Colonial Park Weekly News

Dear Colonial Park Families -

I hope our Colonial Park community has been enjoying these past two days. The weekend before Halloween is always very busy!

It was wonderful to see so many of our families on Saturday at our PTO sponsored Trunk of Treat event. The trunks looked amazing, and our students definitely had a blast! Thank you so much to our dedicated PTO and parent volunteers for providing such a fun event for our community. We also got to enjoy the annual Pumpkin Patch in our library on Thursday. Thank you to our Pumpkin Patch sponsors Revive Custom Woodworks, Bookkeeping Partners, LLC, Corso Insurance, Yoga Moves and Jo Ann Fazio. Our students were thrilled to take home a pumpkin!

On Thursday, we celebrated at our second Goldie Gathering of the year. We recognized students in grades K-4 who exhibited exceptional perseverance while using ST Math! These students are:

K - Genesis E.

1 - Samuel P.

2 - Layla H.

3 - Eva S.

4 - Gavin O.

Keep up the great work!

Ms. Alyssa, Ms. Jean and Ms. Becca also shared a lesson on autism acceptance during our Goldie Gathering. They read the book All My Stripes, and led a discussion on how our differences make us special and should be celebrated. Our kindergarten friends got a shout-out for the best October attendance, and our fourth graders proudly led our staff and students in our Goldie Anthem. We are so proud of our school community!

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and a Happy Halloween!

Best,

Rosa Flynn

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*Coats for Kids and Families- Running now through December 20th! As the weather is cooling, and you’re pulling coats out of your closet, Colonial Park is once again participating in the Coats for Kids and Families collection. Winter coats, used and new, of any size can be placed in the bin in the school entrance way. Collections are cleaned by Anton’s cleaners and then distributed to those in need. Thank you for your consideration and generosity!

*November PTO Meeting - Tuesday November 12th Join us at 7pm in the CP Library or Virtually on Google Meets! Those in attendance in person will have the chance to win Colonial Park Spirit Wear we will be raffling off!

*Calaresos's Thank You- Thank you to everyone who purchased Calaresos's gift certificates - we sold over 500 gift certificates this year! Gift cards will be distributed on Monday and will go home with students on Monday or Tuesday

*Halloween Celebration Success - Thank you to everyone who helped us with our Halloween Celebrations! We had an amazing time at the pumpkin patch, the kids loved having their own special pumpkins.

Our Trunk or Treat this year was a SMASH! Thank you to everyone who volunteered, helped to organize, and decorated their trunks. It was an amazing day with beautiful weather, and everyone really did such an amazing job making this a special day for the kids. We are so grateful for our CP Community.

We wanted to thank the sponsors who made these events possible:

Revive Custom Woodworks

Bookkeeping Partners, LLC

Corso Insurance

Yoga Moves

the Fazio Family

Tiffany Dennen Productions, LLC

Rapid Liquors

SavMor Spirits

Melrose YMCA

The Cookie Guy

Public Kitchen

Tonno

J&B Butcher

Fusion Taste

Winnie Beaton

The Energy Barre

Karine Dalton

Kennedy's Cafe The Stones

Daily Scoop

Ceramica

Pizza Mia

Christine's Sweet Shop

Prince Pizza

Central Rock Gym

Liberty Bell Stoneham

Tread Reading

La Qchara

Amore Pizza

Fitness Together Melrose

Boda Borg

We would like to share the Second Annual After-Halloween Collection! If you have extra candy after Halloween, we have two worthy causes that could use it. Please see the attached flyer for more details, and thank you in advance!

Mrs. Kuhn has announced that our annual K-4 Winter Concert will be held on Tuesday, December 10, from 9:00 to 10:00am. Please mark your calendars for the full hour, so you are able to enjoy all our performers from kindergarten through fourth grade!

Saint Patrick School is hosting a screening of the documentary Race to Nowhere on Wednesday, November 13. The film features stories of students across the country who have been pushed to their limit by over-scheduling, over-testing and the pressure to achieve.

All Stoneham parents and guardians are invited to attend and can register on the St. Pat's website here.