ELEMENTARY UPDATES

KINDNESS CONTINUED

change the school environment . Focusing on and teaching kindness is a way to bring about widespread change .

The students and staff at Elroy will be focusing on random acts of kindness throughout the year . We encourage families to continue our theme at home and in the community . Below are 7 random acts of kindness that are quick and easy to complete .

Although the students may get a much-anticipated break over the summer , custodians , administrators , and teachers spend their summers getting ready for the students to come back in the fall ! For this upcoming school year , we have been busy planning the implementation of new curriculum and recruiting new staff members to make the 2023 – 2024 school year a success !

During the final days of school , Mr . Ohm surprised kindergarten students with a visit from Tom Schimizzi , from Hillview Motor Sports . Mr . Ohm wrote a grant for All Kids Bike to get balance bikes and a curriculum for teaching kindergarten students how to ride bikes . Yamaha Motor Sport ’ s Outdoor Access Initiative saw the open grant and paid off the remaining fundraising balance . That is where Tom and Hillview Motor sports became involved by putting together the 24 bikes and delivering them to Moore School . It may have been a 90 degree day , but the whole school participated in a giant count down to the big reveal and cheered the kindergarten students on as they donned helmets and glided and balanced the new bikes around the playground .

Now that Mr . Ohm has the bikes , he spent his summer getting trained on teaching the students how to ride the new bikes . There are multiple lessons that the students will participate in with the end goal of students being able to balance on the bikes and apply balancing to pedal bikes .

Mr . Ohm isn ’ t the only one who spent his summer getting ready to teach new content . All kindergarten through fifth grade reading and English Language Arts teachers will have a new reading series and supporting technology programs . Into Reading will be our reading series and teachers will also have access to Waggle and Amira to use to support the reading instruction .

There were a lot of boxes to go through , sort , and distribute to the classrooms . This fall the teachers will participate in a professional learning community learning how to best meet individual student learning needs with all their new materials .

STAFF TRANSITIONS AT MOORE

This fall we will be welcoming two new staff members and saying goodbye to old friends . Ms . Rodriguez will be joining the middle / high school faculty as their English as a Second Language teacher . She is looking forward to reuniting with her former students and their families . One of our new staff members will take over for Ms . Rodriguez and the other new staff member will be the newest addition to our music department . Our new music teacher will teach elementary music classes , lead the elementary chorus , and assist with band lessons .

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OUR WORK NEVER ENDS — SUMMER CLEANING AND PREPARATION

These are only a handful of the exciting things happening at Moore this summer . Our hallways classrooms have been busy with the custodial staff , Miss Peggy , Miss Loretta , and Miss Gabby getting everything cleaned , shined , and put back together . Mr . George and his maintenance staff installed the bike racks to store the new strider bikes . Finally , Miss Sarah was instrumental in sorting , inventory , and getting all our new materials in the proper place .

Everyone at Moore is looking forward to welcoming students and families into our school for the 2023 – 2024 school year . Exciting changes are underway !!