Updates from the Principal

Dear Parents/Guardians:

As we start the month of February, kindness, generosity, and friendship are certainly on our minds at Tashua School! This month, we will be completing a One Book, One School read of the picture book Try a Little Kindness by Henry Cole. The students will be meeting with their buddy classes to enjoy this story and gain an appreciation of how small acts of kindness can help everyone to feel good and enjoy each day!

In addition, during the week of February 11^th – 14^th, we will be celebrating Kindness Week. Our student council has prepared events for each day of this week to encourage kids to continue to exhibit kindness for others.

Monday – Let’s begin by doing kind things for each other. Write about kind acts others do for you on a paper heart, then add it to our giant jar of hearts outside the media center. Spread kindness as often as you can! ?  

Tuesday – Watch online as a storyteller reads Enemy Pie, a book about kindness! Have your buddies join you if they can.  ?            

Wednesday – Let’s go “Crazy for Kindness” – dress in your craziest combination of clothes! Bring $1.00 to help those in need in our own community – the Trumbull Food Pantry and the Trumbull Animal Shelter.

Thursday – Valentine’s Day! We can all enjoy seeing Tashua’s acts of kindness on the monitors in the cafeteria. ?

Further, we will continue to focus on the “E” for Empathy in our T.I.G.E.R.S acronym. Teachers will be working with students to help them to understand how their actions and the actions of others could make someone else feel.  This message is reinforced in our school song, “How would I feel if someone did that to me?” Teachers will be using classroom meetings and lessons to help our students value the importance of this character trait. Students continue to “Earn Tiger Stripes” as they are recognized for exhibiting these positive character traits at school. In addition, as classroom positive behavior charts are filled, the class will earn a “Stripe” to be posted on the large Tashua Tiger in our lobby on the bulletin board outside of the gym.  As we reach our goals, school-wide celebrations occur.

Finally, as a staff, we have continued to focus on our school-wide goal of helping students to develop stamina and perseverance and to be mindful and reflective of their daily assignments and actions.

Thank you for ALL that you do to help our students, your children, to be the best that they can be socially, emotionally and academically! Your partnership and continued support is greatly appreciated!

Fondly,

Mrs. Neumeyer

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