Meet Annie, Buddy, Cutie, Danny, and Ellie! 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 NES_CT

K is for Kindness Day! Thank you to all the families who sent in items for the men and women serving in the Marine Corp. 💕🇺🇸 NES_CT #NESCares

L is for Language Day! Lucas taught the class how to sign “I love my teacher” 💕 NES_CT I swear I did not pay him to do this 🤣🥰

My heart is full 💞 Thank you for an amazing year! NES_CT

For our NES_CT Twitter families, please read the message from our AmAzIng PTO. You can also tweet snow fun pictures or email to Mrs. Gallagher and/or Mrs. Calabrese! Use hashtags: #NESsnowfun #NESsnowday

Congratulations to Regan Williams for winning the All Around and being named tournament MVP!

Happy School@Counselor Week to our awesome PPS staff - Mrs. Tarsa, Mrs. Nissenbaum, Mrs. Anatolia, and Mrs. Gray #NEScares 💚🐮 Lynn Nissenbaum Kelly Gray

🍅🫑🥕Eat what you grow! These brave 1st graders got to sample some of the “veggies” while learning that vegetables with seeds aren’t actually a vegetable but a fruit! 🤯 NES_CT

🤓 Check out these readers! 🤩 They are building good reading habits by taking a sneak peek at their 📚 before reading them! 🤩 NES_CT

💃🏻 Salsa verde (made with student grown veggies from NES_CT’s Plant Patch) is ready for sampling! 👩🏻‍🌾

When a student wears a shirt “just for you”. 🫶🏻😁#STEMforALL

🚨 Fire, Police, Emergency, and Public Works presentation was a hit! 👮🏽‍♂️👨🏻‍🔧🧑🏽‍🚒 Thank you for all you do for our community! 🙏🏼 NES_CT

STEM habits of mind happening with these first graders (experimenters, predictors, describers…) Ask them all about it! Ms. Gray 🎀

🤓 There was a guest reader in the library today! Ms. Kim, our school secretary, and her sidekick, Giuseppe! 📖🧑🏽‍🍳🥸 I’m not sure who had more fun…Ms. Kim or the kids?!? 🥰NES_CT Thanks, Kim! 💕

Ms. Gray 🎀 NES_CT Secretary of the YEAR!!!! 🤣🏆💐

Using mirrors to observe where the tongue and lips are while sounding a phoneme. 👄 NES_CT Megan Sylvester 💫🤯

🔍Kids in pajamas the day after Halloween excited about books! 🎃 That’s a score for me (and them)! 📚 Making kids excited about reading is a thing! 💫 🙌🏼

♥️ Studying irregular words only makes us stronger! (readers) 🤓💪🏼 NES_CT

🚨This 🤩 student told me after independent reading time she used to love writing the most and now she loves READING the most! Putting decodable texts in the hands of young readers builds CONFIDENCE and a LOVE of reading! 🙌🏼🥳NES_CT

Partner reading isn’t about sitting back and relaxing while your partner reads. It’s about being an active participant in your partner’s reading journey. 💕 NES_CT