Beautiful Music at the Spring Concert!

By: Shelley Irvin-Kent, Music Teacher

Haggerty Chorus participated in the First Annual Singing Festival at Cambridge Rindge and Latin on May 29. Haggerty brought the largest group, representing with 48 students in the chorus! The afternoon was full of rehearsal, playing on the playground, soccer games, pizza, and more rehearsal. We sang our own set (Arlequin dans sa boutique, The Owls, and Jazz Me) and then performed with the festival chorus of 120+ students. The Festival Chorus performed Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, Red River Dances, Al Shlosha d’Varim, and Bicycles. Many thanks to our chaperones Nancy Campbell, Allison Celimli, Sue Mapel, Nordell Randall and Jen Richards for all their help. We look forward to participating again next year!

Haggerty Chorus took one final field trip to Neville Place on June 7. The residents of Neville Manor were thoroughly entertained!

Summer Learning Challenge
Keep your brain growing all summer long! heck your child’s home folder for information about our Haggerty Summer Learning Challenge. List learning activities on the log that is sent home. All students who return a filled out log by September 6th, 2019 will be recognized at our first all school assembly.

With the log, you will find a brochure with more information and many online resources and a page with grade level suggestions for math activities and games. In addition, the district has put together math resources, including ideas for games and activities, suggested websites and apps, and children’s books. You can find suggestions for your child’s grade level here.

Any reading, writing, math or other learning activities your child does this summer can be listed on the log. We want to know about the wonderful learning they do this summer! 

Enjoy your summer!

Nili Pearlmutter, Haggerty Math Coach
Suzanne Russell, Haggerty Literacy Coach
Sarah Novogrodsky, Haggerty Librarian


JK/Kindergarten Art Show!
Thursday, June 6th
West Cambridge Youth Center (680 Huron Ave.)

Staff Appreciation Luncheon –
Thank You!

Library Corner
By: Sarah Novogrodsky, Library Media Specialist

Return those Books!
Please return all library books. We need to do inventory for September. Thank you!

Fourth/Fifth graders host author of Extraordinary Birds.
California fifth grade teacher, Sandy Stark-McGinnis, visited with students to discuss her debut novel, which is receiving accolades from many corners of the children’s literature world.

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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
By: Erin Spencer, Haggerty Social Worker

It is not at all surprising that at this time many parents and children are managing high levels of anxiety. A lot of anxiety is transmitted through the environment, often inadvertently through what Lynn Lyons, international speaker and psychotherapist, refers to as “safety chatter,” which can be overt parental expression of fear and worry or a more subtle expression of fear through excessive explanation and accommodation. Read more >>


Art Corner
By: Laurie Gaines, Art Teacher

We are done with the 5th grade legacy projects - see below! Look for to be hung on the playground soon. The Kindergarten have just finished up learning how to print. 1st grade has been busy learning how to sew. 3rd grade have been creating sculptures from random objects inspired by Louise Nevelson, 4th grade have been building with various materials. Thank you for a wonderful year of Art!


Library/ELA Coach Collaboration
By: Sarah Novogrodsky and Suzanne Russell

It gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of the first fifth grade newspaper, Haggerty NOW. Beginning on February 6, thirteen Haggerty fifth graders started a student newspaper. The Newspaper Club met after school for nine weeks. In collaboration or working as a solo journalist, students choose to report about current events, a story or an opinion piece. During those sessions, students studied adult and student created newspapers, met with a local newspaper editor, drafted and revised their pieces, and Skyped with a producer from 60 Minutes. The following students are now Haggerty’s first news journalists: Hazel M., Le’Shawn A. Hamza Y., Ali W., Niamh R., Imran Y., Zihaam J., Suleyman S., Dante R., Maggie B., Barbara L.P., Maya N., Benji W.


5th Graders Moving On
On Thursday, June 13th, our fifth graders hosted their final assembly - and celebrated their years at Haggerty. The fifth graders broke up into groups of 5 to 6 and each took on memorializing a grade from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. It was a walk down memory lane, a celebration of learning, friends and teachers. They also sang "Happy" by Pharrell Williams (thanks Ms. Irvin-Kent!), and put items in the Time Capsule, they will come back and retrieve when they graduate high school! After the assembly, the fifth graders and their family went to the West Cambridge Youth center for a celebratory lunch! Thanks to the fifth grade teachers, Ms. Stewart, Ms . Faucher, Ms. Lindhorst, Ms. Foster and Ms. Hickey! Thanks also to all the fifth grade parents who organized a wonderful celebration! We will miss you, fifth graders!


Haggerty Day Fun!
On Monday, June 17th, the entire Haggerty School marched up Cushing Street to begin our day of fun at Glacken Field for Haggerty Day! We were led by some fourth and fifth grade drummers and a Haggerty banner. Grades Kindergarten - 2nd took the first shift and Grades 3 - 5 took the second - in a day of fun-filled stations. We lucked out with the weather! Thank you to the many parent volunteers who make this day possible! And a very big thank you to our Physical Education teacher Mr. Materazzo for organizing and directing this wonderful day of fun!




Chicks!
The chicks are hatched in our JK-Kindergarten classrooms!

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