Engaging STEM!
This year's STEM Fair was the best yet! There was so much excitement. Innovators, creators, and problem solvers took advantage of all the STEM Fair had to offer. Every station was filled with wonderful building and exploration. Rubber band cars, craft stick harmonicas, diffractors, catapults, roller coasters, LED flashlights, flinker, egg carton jenga, and cup towers...so much to experience. Read on >>
Movement Stations
This year, our Occupational Therapist Intern, Mirah Sand, under the direction of our Occupational Therapist, Christine Leonard, created Movement Stations in the school.
Why? Our staff uses movement breaks in the classroom. To develop a uniform culture surrounding movement breaks and physical activity, these movement stations can be used for all students. They provide an opportunity for students to self regulate. They are accessible for a wide age range. The station couples energizing movements with calming or regulating movements to get students ready to return to the classroom. Research shows that movement stations can increase the on task behavior of students. The same research stated teachers found an increase in attention after use of the movement station. Read more >>
Principal Corner
Dearest Baldwin Families,
I hope you find plenty of opportunities over the Winter Break to have fun and strengthen your bonds with family and friends. Enjoy!
As I begin to plan activities for my own kids for the coming week, I’m reminded that some of the best memories we make come from just spending some quality time together doing simple things that don’t require a lot of planning or resources.
Bundling up and going for an evening walk as a family, attending cultural events, cooking together, making gifts and cards, listening to stories from elderly friends or family, playing games in pajamas, singing and laughing together, even working together to clean or decorate your house or apartment--these are the kinds of simple but important things that will help rejuvenate students before their return.
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Looking for Baldwin Siblings!
Do you have a child ready to start kindergarten? Cambridge Public Schools holds the Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten lottery in January. Sibling families can register at school during the month of December.
If you have a child born between September 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014, they are ready for Junior Kindergarten.
If your child will be 5 years old by August 31, 2018, they’re ready for kindergarten!
Please contact Susan at 617.349.4377 for a kindergarten registration packet and instructions on what is required to register at school.
Baldwin Can Drive!
Room 312 Helping Hands is hosting a food drive to benefit the Margaret Fuller House. Please drop any non-perishable food items off in boxes located in the lobby, in front of room 312 and outside Susan's office. Collection will take place through December 21.
If you have any questions, please email Nina Jeffrey.
Math Projects
Students in Mrs. McNulty's third grade class presented their math projects at a recent family breakfast. What a unique way to display place value! Samer shows how he represented 7,611 using cups to represent thousands, foam squares to represent hundreds, pipe cleaners to represent ten and pompoms to represent ones.
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BALDWIN EVENTS
Thursday, December 21
Principal Coffee | 8:30AM
December 25 - January 1
Winter Break
Friday, January 5
Friends of Baldwin Meeting | 9AM
Wednesday, January 11
School Council Meeting | 8AM
Monday, January 15
No School: Dr. MLK Day
Tuesday, January 30
JK-4 Winter Concert | 9:15AM
(Snow date: Tuesday, February 6)
Parent Workshop
Real-life Problem Solving Math Workshop
Presented by Math Coach Jayne Lynch
Tuesday, January 30
8:30 - 9:15AM in the Library
Reserved concert seating for those who attend the workshop.
LOOKING AHEAD
Annual RED SOX Game
May 15 | 7PM
Game vs the Oakland Athletics.
Tickets will go on sale after the February break.
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BALDWIN SCHOOL
SITE COUNCIL
Be part of a group of parents and faculty that work in conjunction with the Baldwin faculty teams to work toward the school's improvement goals, outlined in the school improvement plan. Commitment of a Site Council Member: Attend a 60 minute meeting once a month (on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 8AM) Your child is welcome to accompany you or can go to the cafeteria for breakfast or to the gymnasium for Let's Move. Please come to a meeting to see what it is all about. The next meeting date: January 10
ALL SCHOOL MEETINGS
Each month, the Baldwin School has an all-school meeting. This is an opportunity for the entire school to get together as a community. It is run like a Responsive Classroom morning meeting starting with a greeting followed by classroom shares. Classrooms take turns sharing their work. All-school meets are for kids, by kids. The date of the next all-school meeting will be December 20 at 2PM.
PRINCIPAL COFFEES
Principal Heidi will be hosting principal coffees this year on the 3rd Thursday morning of each month from 8:30 - 9:30AM in the Activity Room on the lower level. The topic of the next meeting: Positive Behaviors.
Please come to the next coffee on December 21.
MITTENS, HATS, GLOVES, AND SOCKS
Room 208 is collecting to donate to those who need them. Please drop off in room 208.
HAVE AN ICE DAY!
A few classrooms are getting ready to go public skating!
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