Longfellow House
Our lower elementary class visited the historical Longfellow House. Children read and discussed poems written by Longfellow while touring the house and beautiful garden on the grounds. The children enjoyed seeing the portraits of Longfellow's family as well as the sculptures of other well-known writers and poets. An amazing experience was had by all.

Books STILL Needed for Book Swap!
Please send in any books for PK-6th grade that you no longer want so that all students have a choice of book to take home this summer. Drop books off in the library or main office. The Book Swap begins on Monday, June 13. Thanks so much!

Library Books Due
ALL library books are due back by Fri. June 10th. I know, there are still 8 days of school but records have to be cleared, shelves organized, lost books found.... Thank you!

Tobin Language Days
You may have heard and seen some languages in the school on Friday mornings. Or maybe you’ve seen a frog or a butterfly poster in the school with an unfamiliar word underneath. Or you may have noticed a tree just outside the school building that has sprouted some unusual and colorful leaves. Each “leaf” is one of the languages that Tobin families speak at home.

Tobin has begun a tradition of recognizing and celebrating home languages. We started in December with Arabic Language Day, and we’ve covered almost all of the 27 home languages since then!

A “home language,” which is sometimes called a “first “ language, isn’t always English, especially in cities where people come from all over the world. Sometimes people speak both English and another language at home. Sometimes a family member, a parent or grandparent, speaks mostly a home language, while a student or other family members may speak mostly English. One-third (1/3) of all the people who live in Cambridge who are 5 years old or older speak a language other than English at home! Cambridge Public Schools families speak a total of 65 different languages other than English (as of this school year). That’s a lot of languages!

Thanks to the many families, individual students, and teachers who have helped so far by making translations, saying the school pledge, and helping with posters of the words for local animals and objects in the school. Want to help next year? Let Mary Frawley know.

Here’s the schedule of Language Days for the rest of this school year and for Sept. and Oct. of the next school year:
–June 3 Kreyol Language Day
–June 10 Languages of Europe Day (On this day, listen for the school pledge read in Finnish, Russian, Swedish, and German.)
–June 17 Spanish Day and English Day
–Sept. 16 Hindi, Gujarati, Nepali, & Tamil Language Day
–October 7 Korean Language Day (Oct. 9 is Hangul (Korean Alphabet) Day)
–October 14 Spanish Language Day (Oct. 12 is the United Nations’ Spanish Language Day)
–October 28 [Haitian] Kreyol Language Day (This day is Kreyol Language Day internationally)



Tobin Kids Create Commercials!
Here are some wonderful videos written & directed by Tobin students for their Advertising/ Media Literacy Class with Ms. Rosenberg. The assignment? Students must create a 15 second commercial to advertise an ordinary product using the advertising techniques we have learned.

This video was written & directed by Henry Carter and Aymon Tai for their Advertising/Media Literacy Class with Ms. Rosenberg. http://bit.ly/22AjKt1

This video was written & directed by Madison Bartee, Maeghan Fischer and Aasiyah Kamthewala. http://bit.ly/1r3VVvR



2016 Montessori for Social Justice Conference
Attention, Tobin families, we need your help for the upcoming Montessori for Social Justice conference we are hosting!!!

Below are a couple of ways you can support this:
–Would you like to help out by hosting a conference participant? You can host attendees in your home! Here is an exciting way for local families and teachers to support the conference by hosting attendees June 23, 24 and 25th. Here is a sign-up form for anyone who is interested in hosting: https://goo.gl/44D3AO.
–We will also need parent volunteers to help with preparations, such as photocopying, stuffing folders, set-up and clean-up of meals, and compiling a list of local eateries and things-to-do. If you are interested in helping, please email Erin Gutierrez at [email protected].

Learn more about the conference >>



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