Teacher Margaret's "View From My Window" - June 5th

Dear Westfield,

Our year is wrapping up. Final tests are being taken in 8th-grade math, final pop art collages have been created in PreK, the beans are sprouting in Preschool 3, and Fourth-grade students are solving geometric challenges. Fourth-grade students are also getting ready for their annual New Jersey cake extravaganza. It's a wonder the finished cake doesn’t fall through the floor under the weight of all the sugar and candy.

chooch helped The faculty is putting the final details together for the summer learning for Westfield students. The highlights are as follows. Our one Community/One Book is Chooch Helped. We ask that everyone in our community read the book. For our younger students, we ask that parents read the book to them or with them. In addition to Chooch Helped, students in 6th to 8th grades also read The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This beautiful, slim volume is our adult book as well. Students have additional reading challenges in the form of a Bingo card to complete. Our summer reading program is designed to encourage students to read across genres, stretch them to try something new, and hopefully, discover books they love. You can read more about these on our website. Middle School teachers will send home additional work related to our one community books, as well as the reading Bingo. Summer should be a time for exploration and continued personal growth, too. The faculty has created a Bingo Challenge tied to the Let Grow Summer Experience. Look for information about summer math challenges next week.

In Meeting for Worship the past few weeks, children have been standing and responding to the query asking what they have learned this year. Whether it is learning something new about frogs or butterflies, discovering new ways to care for our friends, learning to write a research paper with citations, learning to order lunch in Spanish, tapping a complex polyrhythm, or creating a pot with Teacher Deborah, students shared experiences from across the year and our program. Of course, several celebrated their friendships and the service learning fun with Buddies.

Thank you for sharing your children with us.

Warmly,

Margaret Haviland

Margaret

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In Meeting for Worship we celebrated Shavuot, Pentecost, and Eid al-Adha. We are singing songs focused on our queries and testimonies. “Simple Gifts”, “Love Grows”, “Joy is Like the Rain”, “Somos El Barco”, and “As We Leave this Friendly Place”.

The 8th-grade query for May and June is below.

The months of May and June are focused on joy and celebration. As the school year comes to a close, what have you accomplished that you’re proud of? How have you grown academically and as a person over the school year?

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