Classroom Volunteer Training –
Monday November 24,
8:45am-10:00am,
Upper School Library

This Monday join other parent classroom volunteers to get oriented. We’ll meet for just over an hour to talk about helpful ways to support teachers and students in the classroom. All welcome. If you’ve submitted a CORI form already and have not yet heard back from your child’s teacher about being cleared to help, please keep following up with teachers and our secretaries. Word has it that the state offices have a backlog of forms so let’s keep plugging away until things go through.

A fun story of parent-teacher connection happening, with dad Tom Stenquist and science teacher Charity Murphy:

In Ms. Charity Murphy’s 8th grade science classroom, extension cords were required to provide power for students’ microscopes. But, the arrangement was both bothersome and dangerous given the flow of experiments during class time. Enter Tom, with donated extension cords, to snake the power lines behind all furniture and out of our young scientists’ way! Said Ms. Murphy of their collaboration, “Sometimes, small things matter more than big things if it’s something you really need. It’s a great feeling to know that parents do care.”

Go, Tom! His next project? Something about a broken wall clock, with clock surgery happening in class with potential future engineers watching…