Library Corner 
By: Sarah Novogrodsky
Read Across America Day - March 2: Vacation week is a great time to visit the public library and to think about your favorite book characters. Who will you be for Read Across America? Think of easy ways to transform yourself with items you have handy at home. Haggerty School will celebrate reading on Friday, March 2nd. Watch for more information in home folders.

Kindergarten students have been getting to know Buddy and Earl, two adorable characters created by Maureen Fergus and Carey Sookocheff. We extend the experience of our read aloud by placing Buddy and Earl in a familiar setting - our classroom.

Award Winning Books: The American Library Association announced its award winning books this week. Here are links to some medals we explore in library lessons. Thanks to FOH, our library will soon have many of the books to place in the hands of students!

View the 2018 Award Winners >>



Music Corner 
By: Shelley Irvin-Kent
Chorus Families: See your email for an updated chorus schedule for February and March.

First Grade Families: We recently revealed the first pitches in music class! Ask your child to teach you how to read this music with pitches so and mi. Each line is an excerpt from a song they know. They even use hand signs while they sing!



Art Corner: Heart Art
By: Laurie Gaines
In December we studied how artists have used different symbols of PEACE and then students created their own colorful PEACE POSTERS to decorate the school for our music concert. This week, we continued our exploration of symbols, this time looking at the work of artist Jim Dine and how he was inspired by HEARTS. Students have been busy creating their own HEART ART combining different techniques such as collage, watercolor and craypas resist, line design, stencils and cutting, and stitching.



Friends of Haggerty Corner
Dear Haggerty community,

Thank you for a successful FOH Winter Appeal! Because of your generous contributions, we surpassed our goal and raised over $8,500!! This money will go directly back to the classrooms and specialists, ensuring access to enrichment opportunities for all the children at our school, including field trips, visiting authors and artists, and valuable activities like the recent second grade folk dancing residency. Every gift counts so thank you!

If you are interested in checking out what Friends of Haggerty is all about come to a meeting! Contact Lisa Harteveldt for details.

Photo: Second graders do a mock at the Moakley Courthouse during their Social Justice Unit. Paid for by Friends of Haggerty.



Talking Differences in First Grade
On Friday, February 9, Ellie's mom Amanda came to talk to the first graders of Room 105 about physical differences between people. Ms Yeh and Amanda talked with the class about how to be kind and respectful with their curiosity. They asked kids to imagine what it would feel like to be asked a question about something that made them shy and then how to ask permission of people to have these conversations. Read on >>



Save the Date! Parent Workshop!
Our 4th Annual Workshop for Parents/Caregivers on Out-of-School Time and Summer Camp is coming soon. June is not all that far off, and we want to help you with finding summer programs for your children!

Please join us on Thursday, March 15th from 6 - 8PM in the Library.

We will have information about camp programs throughout the City. Community Engagement Team outreach workers who speak Haitian Creole, Arabic, Spanish, Bangla, Chinese, and Amharic will be present to assist and translate as needed.

Come one, come all, and find out about great opportunities for you children this summer! Flier came home in backpacks this week. Questions? Please ask Lissa.

Coaches Corner
By Nili Pearlmutter, Math Coach

Dear Families,

You may have heard your children talking about “math talks” as some of our teachers are trying out this routine in their classrooms. During a math talk, the teacher puts up a prompt - it could be an image or an equation - and the students discuss it. They might talk about the different ways they see an image or strategies for solving a math problem mentally. Math talks build students’ number sense and ability to “see” math. Here are some examples of math talk prompts at different grade levels:

First Grade: How many dots do you see? How did you figure out how many dots there are?



Third Grade: Solve this problem mentally. What strategy did you use? Can you think of another way to solve it?

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Fifth Grade: What fraction of the rectangle is purple? Red? Blue? What fraction is blue and red?



Have a great vacation - and keep talking math with your children.

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