March 14, 2023
Haggerty School 110 Cushing Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.349.6555 haggerty.cpsd.us facebook.com/haggerty.cpsd Dr. Nancy Campbell Principal 617.349.6556 ncampbell@cpsd.us Sue Mapel Assistant Principal 617.349.6023 smapel@cpsd.us. Lissa Galluccio Family Liaison 617.349.6555 x7945208 LGalluccio@cpsd.us Jessica Joseph Adjustment Counselor 617.349.6555 x7945302 JJoseph@cpsd.us Maria Williams Secretary 617.349.6555 x0 MWilliams@cpsd.us Kevin Mundt School Psychologist 617.349.6555 x7945204 KMundt@cpsd.us
Upcoming Events Fifth Graders travel to Nature's Classroom | March 15-17 Early Release Day | March 15 | Dismissal at 11:55AM No School, Monday, March 20 - Professional Development Day Haggerty School Advisory Council, Wed., March 22 | 6-7:30PM View full calendar: haggerty.cpsd.us/calendar
Second Grade Taps Maple Trees at Fresh Pond! The second grade classrooms walked to Fresh Pond a couple weeks ago to begin the processing of tapping the maple trees. All the students met with the Ranger, and learned about the process and finished by drilling holes and placing collection buckets on a few trees at Kingsley Park. Teams of second graders will travel back to the trees over the next few weeks to bring back the sap in buckets, using our little red wagon. The sap is then boiled down to make maple syrup. The goal is to make enough syrup for pancakes for the 2nd grade family pancake breakfast to be held later this Spring!
Summer Programming Options This month, the Office of Academics & Schools will be sharing information about Academic Support Programs that will be open this summer for students in grades K-8. These are engaging programs that combine fun, hands-on activities with targeted lessons in math and English Language Arts (ELA) to support students who would benefit from additional learning time. School leadership refers students to participate in one of these opportunities. You will be notified by the end of March. This document is a great resource for families to learn about all of the options that are available. It is updated regularly.
Musician of the Month - March Shreya ghoshal, Indian playback singer Born in West Bengal, India in 1984, now lives with her husband and child in Mumbai. March’s Musician of the Month is Shreya Ghoshal. Ghoshal is a Bollywood playback singer - she records songs that are voiced over Bollywood movies while the actor is lip-synching, pretending to sing. She started learning music at age 4, and began formal training at age 6. Ghoshal is trained as a classical singer, and in 2017 presented a master class in Indian classical singing at Berklee College of Music. She has been featured in hundreds of films and has appeared as a judge on several television reality shows. In 2010, she was honored by the Governor, who declared June 26 “Shreya Ghoshal Day.” You can find a video performance of Shreya Ghoshal with the Berklee Indian Ensemble here (https://bit.ly/ShreyaGBerklee). Check out our updated Spotify playlist (spoti.fi/3DFJBLg) to hear Shreya Ghoshal songs we’ve been listening to in music class. Please email me with any questions! Mx. Irvin / Shelley sirvinkent@cpsd.us
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Coach’s Corner ELA Corner-Caregiver Volunteers Needed We are in need of 2-3 caregivers to help shelve books in our literacy leveled book collection. Volunteers are needed to help return leveled books to the book room shelves. These books are leveled by letters: A-Z. Books are generally easy to return to their locations in labeled boxes and labeled shelves. If you have any time during the week and would like to volunteer to a very needed cause, please contact Mrs. Russell by email at srussell@cpsd.us. Grade 4 & 5 Haggerty Readers In Residence Club Over 30 students signed up to be Haggerty Readers in Residence. These readers have committed to reading at least 5 of the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award books. There are 25 MCBA books, each year, Massachusetts students in grades 4-6 are challenged to read these books and to cast their vote for a best statewide book. Students will meet for 2-4 lunch periods during March and April with Amanda and Mrs. Russell for book discussions. Students who read at least 5 books will be invited to a book party and will have opportunities to earn book giveaways at the end of the Reading Challenge. Many students have already read 5-10 books! Our first Book Club meeting was on Thursday, March 9 in the library, these readers are amazing! Here is the list of MCBA books this year. 22-23 MCBA poster white (1).pdf If you have any questions, feel free to email Amanda or Mrs. Russell.
Official Haggerty Readers in Residence Grade 4: Jasmine, Orla, Andrii, Ava, Aeary, Mia, Ava, Esther, Charlotte, Abana, Mi-Yun, Louis, Zara, Noa, Aarya, Ruben, Ayesha, Noor, West, June, Shifa, Eleanor Grade 5: Lindalee, Summer, Tara, Alice, Ana Laura, Nathan, Shanze, David, Nuria, Shifa, Sophie Fun Family Math Opportunity! March 14 is known as Pi day because 3.14 is the special number Pi! Join the Young People’s Project at the MIT Museum for fun, hands-on pi-based activities for people of all ages! And, of course, there will be pie there! The event is on March 14, from 3:14 - 6PM. Learn more information here: https://programs.typp.org/2023-pi-day-in-living-color/.
Spaghetti Dinner Success! Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Spaghetti Dinner, on March 9th, to help raise money for the 5th graders trip to Nature's Classroom. It was a huge success! We had about 250 people attend. Families made delicious meatballs, salad, and brownies. We want to thank Pemberton Market for donating the salad supplies, Iggy's Bakery for donating the bread, and Shaw's on Mount Auburn Street for donating all the meat and supplies to make the meatballs and sauce! The raffle was also a huge success! So many local businesses donating prizes - and we are grateful to them all. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket! If you won, and you were not at the dinner, Lissa has contacted you already. The fifth graders are so grateful for the outpouring of support to help them make this two night trip! Sorry I was too busy to take photos at the spaghetti dinner - if you have any, please share them with me! Thanks again ~ Lissa
Coach's Corner - Continued 4th Graders Divide Curious what students are doing in math class? Our fourth grade recently finished a unit on division. Fourth graders learned what to do with division story problems where there is a remainder. They had to think about what makes sense. They also learned efficient strategies for dividing with larger numbers. These strategies helped them understand division and place value. They don’t learn the long division algorithm in school until 6th grade. Here are some examples of their work. If you want to learn more about how students learn division, try watching Graham Fletcher’s video on this page: https://gfletchy.com/progression-videos/.
CitySprouts The month of February seemed to fly by while the excitement and amazement of students continued to bring joy to all of us at CitySprouts. It is an incredibly exciting time for us as we start to transition our classes from indoor winter lessons to getting our hands dirty in the soil once again. As we began to wind down our winter curriculum, several classes had the opportunity to get up close and personal with our snail friends. In one of the many fun activities, students were tasked with constructing obstacle courses or unique shelters to observe the snails’ behavior, movement, and their sticking power. In some cases, going as far as conducting races for slices of cucumber between the snails (which is apparently exhilarating despite the excruciatingly suspenseful pace). In the weeks to come, students will increasingly spend their lesson time outside as they contribute vitally to the “rebirth” of their gardens. While schools were closed over break and in preparation of the spring planting season, CitySprouts staff eagerly visited the gardens in order to amend the soil. Maintaining healthy soil is a crucial practice for any gardener interested in growing happy and healthy plants. There are countless ways to replenish the nutrients lost to last season's crops yet we were blessed to receive an immense donation of manure from a local partner. Folding the manure into the spent soil can be a daunting and smelly task however once completed, our gardens have all the fertilization they need to produce flourishing vegetables and herbs throughout the summer and into next fall. If you want to see more photos of our snail lessons or our day amending soil at our school gardens, follow us on Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. We are always looking for new volunteers interested in giving back to their school communities and getting their hands dirty (no gardening experience required!) and would love to have you, please complete this form if you are interested, thank you!