george r. martin elementary

Notes From the Principal Mr. Lush ([email protected]) and our Feinstein Coordinator Mrs. Carvalho

Our Feinstein Mission Statement

“Helping to better the lives of others is the greatest of all achievements”

“As a Feinstein Leadership School we are committed to teaching our students to be caring of others”

School Website: http://mes.seekonk.sharpschool.com/

George R. Martin Elementary

“A Feinstein Leadership School” January I

The Feinstein Newsletter– This week’s newsletter takes a look back at some of the many good deeds performed by stu-dents at Martin Elementary school. Alan Shawn Feinstein is the founder of the Feinstein Foundation, dedicated to help-ing the needy and encouraging young-sters to do likewise. His Campaign to fight hunger has raised over $2.5 Billion for thousands of anti-hunger agencies nationwide. There are now over 100,000 Feinstein Jr. Scholars! The Feinstein Jr. scholars at Martin School are proud of the many good deeds they have performed so far this year. Mr. Feinstein visits the school dur-ing one of our monthly Student of the Month assemblies. His message goes along with our character building, posi-tive behavior support message that we talk about every day during our morning announcements and recap during Stu-dent of the Month assemblies.

Mr. Feinstein at one of our Student of the Month as-

semblies

The Feinstein weekly PBS

show, ’Our Great Kids’

airs Saturday at noon,

andSunday at 10 a.m. on

PBS 36 and Cox 8.



Martin School Fourth Graders Helping the Council

on Aging

Once again, as they do each year, the fourth grad-ers at Martin School generously donated items for the holidays to give to the Seekonk Council on Ag-ing. The students donated home and personal care items as well as gift certificates to grocery stores and local shopping stores. The mission of Seekonk

Human Services and the Council on Aging is to en-sure the well-being of Seekonk’s older population and residents of any age who are in need of social ser-vices due to economic hardship, health issues, family circumstances, or personal loss. They seek to main-tain and enhance the quality of life of our elder citi-zens by providing opportunities for social interaction, physical activity, intellectual stimulation, community service, and health clinics. George R. Martin’s fourth graders hold a donation drive each year at Christmas and happily give many needed items so that they can be distributed during this often difficult time of year. Looking at the smiles on their faces, it was clear that the lesson learned was that giving is a way to bring much happiness not just to others, but to yourself as well!

Toy Drive and Eagle Scout Project

Martin School Girl Scouts and a local Eagle

Scout successfully designed and coordinated a

toy drive and personal hygiene products drive.

While the Girl Scouts delivered toys to those in

need, the local boy scout leader made sure

personal hygiene products found their way to

local men who were going without.



Second Grade Canned Food Drive-

Thank you to everyone who par-

ticipated in the Canned Food

Drive. The second graders and

Mrs. Braganca organized, collect-

ed, counted, and graphed 258

items. The food will be donated to

the Seekonk Food Pantry, as done

each year. The children worked

hard in hopes that the holidays will

be nicer for the families of

Seekonk. We even had one sec-

ond grader donate his bike!

Pink Out Day-

Our student council once again put their heads to-

gether in support of the community to hold a Pink-

Out-Day. Students wore pink to support breast

cancer awareness. Mr. Lush even dressed in vari-

ous combinations of pink worn by the fall baseball

teams he coaches. The day was another way Mar-

tin School students showed that school can be fun

while showing pride in caring for others.



Important Dates

January 19th No School Mar-

tin Luther King Jr. Day

January 26th School Commit-

tee meeting Seekonk High

School 7pm

January 27th Progress re-

ports sent home

January 29th Evening Regis-

tration for 2015-16 Kinder-

garten 5:30-6:15 main lobby

(K registration ongoing all

month, during the day, at

Martin School)

February 11th 5th Grade Band

7pm in the Gymnasium

Twitter account –Follow us for more good deeds—@MES_Seekonk

Mr. Lush’s last literature

(*Some books I’ve read twice)

Book Title Author

The Lions of Little

Rock

Kristin Levine

The Snowy Day * Ezra Jack

Keats

Caps For A Cure- For the third year our Student Council collaborated with the “Hurricane” team to help raise funds to help with research to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. Students at Martin wore hats and donat-ed money in support of the JDRF, formally the Juvenile Diabetes Re-search Foundation. Students not only love being able to wear their favorite hat to school, but also to show Martin School pride in their caring of others.

Mr. Lush @ Seekonk, Habitat for

Humanity, build

Martin News

Walkthroughs- In furthering our relationship with the Seekonk Police Department,

strengthening safety and giving more piece of mind for parents, patrol officers will be

doing building walkthroughs throughout the week. Walkthroughs will not be sched-

uled events and will be least intrusive to the learning environment. The walkthroughs

are planned as a year long endeavor and are not in reaction to any threat. They pro-

mote safety through continued collaboration with the Seekonk PD.

PBIS Revision – Our school wide Fill-a-Bucket/Character Coupon initiative will

have a new twist. Our new, large, positive behavior support poster in the main office

will serve as a weekly reminder and to reward students showing good deeds in specific

areas of the building.

Math words– Our haiku riddle challenge is over. Students being polite at lunch,

were previously able to guess the answer to a weekly Haiku. We now have weekly

morning math words that student can define in order to earn one of our red math

tickets.

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