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!
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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
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!
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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.
Wednesday, June 8 Early Release Day 11:55AM dismissal Thursday, June 9 | 9AM School Council Please note the time change! Thursday, June 9 | 8:15AM Spring Concert Kindergarten students through grade 5 will be in the concert. 3- and 4-year-olds will be part of the audience. Students should wear concert black and white (white top/black bottom). Friday, June 10 Library Book Due Date Wednesday, June 15 Field Day All day behind the school. Schedule of events will be sent home next week. Raindate: June 16 or 17 Thursday, June 16 | 8AM Family Outreach Friday, June 17 | 7:40AM Monthly Coffee Lobby Wednesday, June 22 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! Full day
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)
Seen Around Tobin.. Check out Kareem's matching shirt!
Art & Science in One Students in Room 216 finished their Art & Science in One program on May 27th. The 16 students and their adult volunteers, recruited and trained for the program by Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., visited Fresh Pond on three consecutive Fridays. The one-to-one student-volunteer pairs also met twice for an hour of drawing practice before the trips to Fresh Pond began. Science illustrator Erica Beade led instruction in drawing animals quickly if they are in motion; capturing the broad outlines of plants and trees and then working to create more detail, and nature journaling. Basic skills of scientific observation are the core of the program, which has been operating for four years. Thank you to all the adult volunteers (including two Tobin parents)! We had 100% attendance rate for both volunteers and students for the three trips to Fresh Pond, which included a trip to Black’s Nook and Lusitania Meadow.
Quote of the Week The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fresh, healthy, locally grown strawberries are being featured in school lunches this month! Learn more about these tasty berries via MA Farm to School and Cambridge in Motion: http://bit.ly/1VzBm7f
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 egutierrez@cpsd.us. About the Conference The 2016 Montessori for Social Justice Conference, the third national gathering focused on building the public Montessori movement and advancing educational equity, will be hosted by Tobin Montessori School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Register for the Conference: http://bit.ly/msj2016 Like last year, the Saturday MSJ conference will be paired with an optional free workshop on Friday, June 24th called "Understanding Structural Racism" led by Crossroads Anti-Racism. This workshop is generously sponsored by the American Montessori Society and is available at no charge for participants. Please make sure to select tickets for both events! Conference Schedule Thursday, June 23 Crossroads Anti-Racism Workshop attendees arrive, optional dinner off-site TBD Friday, June 24 8AM-5PM: Optional Crossroads Anti-Racism Workshop 4PM onward: Conference Registration and Dinner Saturday, June 25 9AM-9PM: MSJ Conference with sessions and Unconference breakout groups. Sunday, June 26 Depart Frequently Asked Questions Who is invited? Educators, parents, researchers, community members - anyone who cares about public Montessori schools, Montessori schools for low income and underserved students and social justice issues in education. I work at a private Montessori school. Can I come to this event? Absolutely! We are united by our common interest to bring Montessori to all students. Last year, a number of staff attended from private organizations. I am on a limited budget and don't know if I can attend. Are there options to support my attendance? We are an all-volunteer grassroots group of educators and parents, and we strive to keep the cost of the conference as affordable as possible. We also fundraise to defray the costs of the Conference.
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