Do You Believe in Magic?

The magic continued this past week at East Hill with our two-week Parents as Reading Partners Reading Celebration. We were fortunate to welcome so many guest readers into our classroom thanks to our wonderful PTA who coordinated it all.

Dr. Brown reads "Scaredy Squirrel" to Mrs. Butkowski's Class

Students continued to Drop Everything and Read every day and were able to visit the Scholastic Book Fair last week.

Our reading celebration concluded on Friday with a visit from Jeff the Magic Man. Thanks again to the PTA for the funding, and thank you to Janet McDonald for finding him. Kids loved him!

Jeff the Magic Man with Kash Preble assisting.

In addition to guest readers, Mrs. Tynan’s class had a guest visitor in their classroom last week to talk about the skeletal system, which they had been studying in class. Thank you to Mr. Rufa for coming to visit and for bringing in the skeleton and all of those cool bones for the students to explore!

Speaking of skeletons, our Halloween parade and parties will take place this Friday. Please send your child’s costume to school in a bag. Students may not come to school in costume or wearing make-up. All scary, violent, bloody masks, weapons, spears or other dangerous accessories are not appropriate for school and must remain at home. Our youngest students can be frightened easily, and we want them to have a positive experience.

Weather permitting, the parade will be held in front of the school so we will not be allowing cars to park on the bus loop. If we need to hold the parade inside, we will have parents line the hallway by the library and/or view the parade from inside the gym. The parade will begin at 2:00.

Halloween parties will be held in the classrooms after the parade. Only adults who are already designated helpers will be permitted into the classrooms during the parties, and those helpers must sign in at the main office and wear a visible visitor’s badge. Helpers are asked not to bring younger children. We ask that all helpers (and all adults coming to view the parade) not wear masks so that you can be easily identified. Thank you for your cooperation in all things Halloween!

Lastly, as mentioned last week, the High School’s R² Committee is holding a Halloween Carnival on Thursday night. Click on this link to access the flyer about the event: http://www.westgenesee.org/PDFs/WGHS/R2%20Halloween%20Carnival.pdf

Although our two-week reading celebration has come to an end, please continue to read to, read with, and encourage your children to read, as reading truly is magic!

- Lisa