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Jaime Frost Principal 617.349.6600 x151 jfrost@cpsd.us Mary Frawley Family Liaison 617.349.6600 x153 mfrawley@cpsd.us Ian Kenney Adjustment Counselor 617.349.6600 x233 ikenney@cpsd.us Joseph Huber School Operations Manager 617.349.6600 x152 jhuber@cpsd.us Fay Chaisson Secretary 617.349.6600 x150 fchaisson@cpsd.us Kim Boglarski School Psychologist 617.349.6600 x235 kboglarski@cpsd.us
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Cubs Corner Play Structure A HUGE thank you to the Boes family for donating a play structure to Cubs Corner! Can't you tell the kids love it! If you have outside toys you would like to donate, just bring them to the office!
Goodbye Joanne, Welcome Eileen! We are sad to say our Math Coach, Joanne Cleary will be retiring at the end of this year. She has been an invaluable part of this community for many years. In fact, she has been involved in the Tobin School in one way or another since 1997! As much as we will miss her, we are meanwhile excited to introduce our NEW Math Coach, Ms. Eileen Gagnon, to the Tobin Family starting this coming Fall. Eileen Gagnon brings her years of experience and passion for education to the position of Math Coach at the Tobin Montessori School. She has worked as a classroom teacher in grades 1, 4, and 6; a math coach at both the school and district level; and an adjunct faculty member in the graduate program at Lesley University, teaching teachers how to teach math. Photo: Outgoing Math Coach, Joanne Cleary (right) introduces incoming Math Coach, Eileen Gagnon (left) during April's SAC Meeting.
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April 18th-April 22nd School Vacation Classes resume on April 25. Tuesday, April 26 | 7:40AM Monthly Coffee Lobby Wednesday, April 27 Secretaries Day! Stop by the office and wish Fay a Happy Secretaries Day! Thursday, April 28 | 7:30PM Family Outreach Library; Note the time Thursday, May 5 | 8AM Mindful Parenting Room 129 Thursday, May 12 | 8AM School Council Room 129 Wednesday, May 18 Early Release Day 11:55 dismissal Thursday, May 19 | 8AM Family Outreach Room 129 Saturday, May 21 Free Family Spring Event! More details to follow...
PARCC Testing Comes to Tobin PARCC testing is coming to Tobin! In fact, it will begin right after April Break. PARCC stands for the “Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers,” and is a whole new way of testing students’ ability to use skills learned in class and apply them to “real world problems.” In case you missed our April SAC Meeting, our Coaches walked us through the new PARCC testing in great detail, answering many questions and sharing examples. Did you know? There are lots of ways to guide our children to look at real world situations to help them work through problems. Want to know more? 1) Check out our coaches' amazing Power Point presentation next to the SAC Minutes on our school website. 2) Check out PARCC online at parcconline.org. 3) For further questions you can ask your child's teacher, Jaime or any of our amazing coaches: Math Coach: Joanne Cleary, jcleary@cpsd.us Incoming Math Coach: Eileen Gagnon, egagnon@cpsd.us Literacy Coach: Heather Colby, hcolby@cpsd.us Curriculum Coach: Erin Gutierrez, egutierrez@cpsd.us On Monday after April break, we will celebrate the kick off of assessments. Please prepare to make sure your students are well nourished and get extra sleep during this time. Thank you! Photo: Math Coach Joanne Cleary explains the Math section of PARCC during April's SAC Meeting.
Quote of the Week It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. –Vince Lombardi
Meet Our New Member of the Office Staff: LUCKY! What roads led you to the Tobin Montessori School? That is a very interesting question. Last week when it was snowy and icy out, I was flying around and landed on the street right in front of a school bus stop! One of my Montessori friends picked me up. His father told him that he could not take the bird home, and he should take it on the bus to school. The father handed him a hat to put me in to keep me warm. I was a little nervous, not only because I couldn't see while in the hat, but it was my first bus ride! It was a little bumpy but lots of fun! I got to the school safely, and the first thing I noticed was how many kids were here! Everyone was so happy to see me and to make me feel safe and happy in my new surroundings. I stayed in room 216 for a couple of days, but the teacher thought it was a better idea if I came to stay in the office because the kids kept getting out of their seats to say hello and weren't getting their school work done! I found out that is very important in a school! My new friends in the office said “Sure, we'll give it a try!” Well...I am happy to say that I love it here in the office! I get to see lots of kids and adults all day long. Stop by for a visit whenever you are in the neighborhood! When school is closed because of a snow storm, what do you like to do? I haven't lived here long enough to know what I will do with my day if there is a snow storm, BUT I hope a custodian comes by to give me fresh water and bird food! Who would you like to play you in a movie? I would like Margalo from Stewart Little to play me in a movie. Which do you prefer: ocean or lake? I have never been in an ocean or a lake. A big bird bath is the way to go!!! Favorite sports team? Baltimore Orioles Coffee or tea? I haven't tried either coffee or tea, but I love a nice clean fresh cup of water with a splash of vitamins that helps keep my feathers nice and shiny! Favorite ice cream? My roommates won't let me have ice cream, only birdseed. I love birdseed!! What is your favorite toy? I'm really partial to my two mirrors. Boy, I'm a good-looking bird!
Mathematics You Can Touch Yesterday, our phenomenal Math Club Leaders, Robert and Anna, led the Tobin Math Club on a field trip to the Mathematics You Can Touch traveling exhibit currently at the Goethe Institute in Back Bay. The exhibit offered beautiful, hands-on material that allowed the children to visually and sensorally think and learn about exponential functions, geometrics, combinatorics, axial symmetry, estimations, inequations, frequency, probability, sequencing, integration, and more. After nearly two hours of problem solving and challenging one another, the Goethe Institute presented each guest with a bag filled with material and games to continue math-learning at home. Beyond how Montessori-esque all of the exhibit materials were (the time there flew by and could have easily continued longer), the children greatly benefited from the space and resources to explore several of the concepts Anna and Robert have been teaching throughout the year. In fact, many of the materials would be great to bring into our classrooms! We’re extremely grateful to Anna and Robert for spearheading the club this year. What a phenomenal privilege and opportunity it has been for our school and students to have access to their knowledge and experience.