IN THIS ISSUE:

Save the Dates

Third and Fourth Grade Math Mornings
Art Squad Meeting Friday
Culture and Creativity Night
Brackett Bank News
Brackett Book Fair 
Election Day Bake Sale Coordinator Needed
Volunteer Spotlight: Contractors & Landscapers
Box Tops 
Coats for Kids
DIG Facebook Group

Save the Date:

Third & Fourth Grade Math Mornings!  

On behalf of the STEM Committee, a team of parents is holding 3rd Grade and Fourth Grade Math Mornings! 

Math Morning is an extracurricular, supplemental math program intended to inspire and energize students about interesting math topics. Each session typically includes a brief slide presentation on a topic, followed by worksheets with fun exercises. Parents are invited to stay and assist their child with the worksheets.  

Third Graders will meet Friday mornings at 7:30am in the Cafeteria. 

Fourth Graders will meet Friday mornings at 7:30am in the Library. 

*We're looking for one additional 3rd grade parent volunteer. If interested, please contact Scott (scott.uebelhart@gmail.com) if interested.

Sign Up Today for Brackett's Culture and Creativity Night 

When: Thursday, November 15th

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 

Please join us for an evening to celebrate the diversity of our community through “museum tables,” arts and crafts, music, STEM related activities, and a sampling of diverse cuisines from around the world!

Grandparents, older siblings, aunts/uncles are encouraged to participate too! 

Please sign up HERE to host a "museum" (aka table) or a craft station, musical contribution, to bring a food dish to share, or to help with set up or clean up.

Keep in mind that there are many sources of culture. You may choose to share the culture of your family's countries of origin, but you could also teach us about another group, language or shared history that is meaningful to you.

If you are interested in sharing any part of your cultural identity please do! All are welcome! Please contact Caitlin Sweeney (caitlin.sweeney@gmail.com) or Nicole Schwartz (nschwartz@arlington.k12.ma.us) with any questions.

Join Us for The Brackett Book Fair!  

When? 

• During each class’s library time
• Monday & Wednesday, 2:30–3 p.m.
• Thursday, 7:30–8:10 a.m. & 5:30–7 p.m.
• Friday, 7:30–8:10 a.m. 

Where: Brackett Library

Library Time Visits

Your child will visit the fair during class library time, and you are welcome to join. Adult volunteers will also be present to help children choose and buy books.

Sample Sale Items and Price Ranges

• Picture & board books ($5–20)

• Beginning reader books ($4–7)

• Early chapter books ($6-8)

• Upper elementary books ($6–10)

• Pencils, erasers, bookmarks, notebooks, and book lights ($1–15)

Cash and credit cards are accepted. If your child is allowed to buy books independently, please send in cash—and don’t forget to account for the 6.25% sales tax. Preview books or shop online at https://fantasticbookfairs.com/pages/brackett.

Books make great classroom gifts. During the sale, you can browse our teachers’ “wish list” baskets and choose a book to buy for the classroom.   

Would you like to volunteer?

We need help setting up, staffing, and taking down the book fair. If you are interested, please learn more and sign up at https://tinyurl.com/brackettbooks18.

Thanks for supporting the library!

All proceeds from the fair go to Brackett’s library. The fair is organized by the Friends of Brackett Library and Fantastic Book Fairs, a joint venture of the Book Rack in Arlington and the Book Oasis in Stoneham.

Have any questions? Contact Katherine Gates, katbuch@gmail.com.

 
  Clip BOX TOPS to Earn Money for Brackett! 

 

Brackett Neighborhood Helpers Needed!

The Mothers Out Front group of Arlington is hosting a "Tag the Gas Leak" event October 27 & 28th. This event is organized by school district, and at the moment there is only one person signed up for the Brackett district.

The goal is to bring visibility to where the leaks are and add some pressure to the utility companies plan for fixing at least the Large Volume Leaks first (and quickly). These large leaks comprise 50% of the methane emissions.

For more info: https://ma.mothersoutfront.org/gas_leaks_info 

PARENT FORUM: “Changing the Culture Around Mental Health: It’s Past Time"

October 30, 2018      

Ottoson Middle School    7- 8:30pm

John Broderick, the former chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, is leading a campaign to bring mental illness out of the shadows. His son's mental illness had gone undiagnosed for nearly 20 years. ”I was the parent and I didn’t see it. So he suffered for years,”  “Then we had that horrible tragedy and he went to prison. And I don’t know how he survived that.” In 2016 Justice Broderick agreed to co-chair the first statewide launch in New Hampshire of a national mental health awareness campaign called Change Direction in New Hampshire.

For the past two years, he has spoken countless times about the five most common signs of mental illness, in an effort to improve understanding and awareness of mental health.

PRESENTER: John Broderick is the Senior Director of Public Affairs at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s R.E.A.C.T. Mental Health Awareness Campaign.  Broderick believes that “we have the ability to change the culture and the way mental health is viewed.”

Please join us for Spooky Walk at Menotomy Rocks Park from 6:30-8:00 pm on Saturday October 27th. (rain date Oct. 28th at the same time). 

We're looking for 4th-7th graders and adult volunteers to create a "spooky station" at this year's event. Please email kelleydamoreferguson@gmail.com if you are interested or have any questions. 

For daily updated calendar and event information, please check the Brackett Website at http://brackettelementary.org/