Letter to Parents

On Wednesday November 11, over sixty dads, granddads, and other male relations came to the PES library for donuts and books.

In the primary grades at Pittsfield Elementary School, our Everyday Mathematics curriculum includes many counting activities that use number grids. For example, we might have children count by 10s starting at 17 (17, 27, 37, 47, 57) or count backward by 10s starting at 84 (84, 74, 64, 54). Parents can use number grids at…

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Second graders are expected to spend 30 minutes on homework each night. Fifteen of these minutes are for reading. What the children reads is up to her/him. The other fifteen minutes will usually be a short math assignment based on that day’s math lesson and a written paper in reading or writing literacy. We encourage…

Note: The following article summary is shared with permission from Kim Marshall, a former Boston principal, author, and nationally recognized educator. This is from his weekly educator e-newsletter, The Marshall Memo. In this New York Times article, sixth-grade teacher Sara Mosle says some parents are overly intrusive, which robs children of the opportunity to solve…