Clinton Township Newsletter

1 3 m a r c h 2 0 2 2 positive social relationships, physical wellbeing, and components of positive decision making. Looking forward to the spring students will focus on safety, drugs and alcohol, and emotional wellness. PE: Students have been working on a variety of fitness activities and team games. The focus this year has been on teamwork and sportsmanship. Art: In Art, fifth-grade students completed their border line drawings and have started their tempera paintings. Since finishing their impressionist still life drawings using oil pastels, fourth-grade students are working on their yarn weaving projects. Meanwhile, third grade is being introduced to working with oil pastel while making drawings of nature animals. Clinton Township Middle School TREP$ will return to CTMS this year, and is scheduled f o r W e d n e s d a y , A p r i l 2 7 t h from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This is a student entrepreneur program, where students build a business and sell their products at the TREP$ Marketplace. Plan to come to school to support our students. There will be jewelry, home decor, garden decor, and more! Relay For Life: CTMS is proud to sponsor our 12th annual Relay for Life, on Friday, March 11 from 6:00- 9 : 0 0 p m ! T h i s f u n family fundraiser is to help the American Cancer Society in their mission to find a CURE for cancer. Our school community has already raised over $375,000 in the fight against cancer, and YOU can be a part of it. Register to participate at www.RelayForLife.org/CTMSNJ! The Clinton Township Education Foundation has funded hundreds of innovative educational programs since 1998. Please feel free to contact us for more ways you can help! Visit the Foundation's website: www.ClintonTownship Foundation.org and select DONATE. Thank you in advance! The Clinton Township School District, in partnership with the community, achieves excellence for each child by ensuring a meaningful and challenging educational experience in a supportive environment; developing life-long learners who are responsible and productive citizens. Wednesday, March 2 is Read Across America Day! Here are helpful tips for reading to and with young school- age children – kindergarten through third grade: n Keep reading to your child even when he can read. Read books that are too difficult or long for him to read alone. n Try reading books with chapters and talk about what is happening in the story. Encourage your child to make predictions about what will happen next, and connect characters or events to those in other books and stories. n Talk with your child about reading preferences that are beginning to develop. Ask whether she likes adventure stories, mysteries, science fiction, animal stories, or stories about other children. Encourage her to explain the reasons for preferences. n Talk with your child about favorite authors and help him find additional books by those authors. n Take turns reading a story with your child. Don't interrupt to correct mistakes that do not change the meaning. n Talk about the meaning of new words and ideas introduced in books. Help your child think of examples of new concepts. n Talk with your child about stories using the notions of the beginning, middle, and end of the story to organize thinking and discussion. n Ask your child to tell why a character might have taken a specific action. Ask for information from the story to support her answer. n Enjoy yourself and have fun. The most important thing you can do to help your child become a successful reader is to communicate that reading is valuable and enjoyable. www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student- engagement/tools-tips/tips-reading-young- school-age-children

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