We would like to officially welcome our newly hired teachers for
2010-2011:

Vineta Budhu – secretary

Liz Mehl – academic intervention

Shea Levin – fifth grade

Sherida Evans – fifth grade

Robin Ross – kindergarten

Meghan Hanley – ELL

Rachel Henderson – leave replacement for Marlene Cutrufello

Stacie Tiftitsoglou – leave replacement for Dawn Gordon

Also, here is the 2010-2011 teacher roster by grade:

Kindergarten:

Cris Swan, Kathy Shelffo, Lara Moskowitz, and Robin Ross

First Grade:

Marlene Cutrufello/Rachel Henderson, Deborah Marr, Helena Nolan, Jennifer Zalinski, and Diana Dadaian/Maria Russo

Second Grade:

Beth Frascella, Joanna Leach/Paula Ortiz, Janine Poutre, Meta Johnson

Third Grade:

Natasha Pomares, Stefanie Izzolino/Dawn Gordon/Stacie Tiftitsoglou, Michael Drechsel, Kelli Solas/Mara Leibowitz

Fourth Grade:

Marian Power, Susan Froelich, Yolande Fleming/Joseph Ferriero

Fifth Grade:

Debra Ceccacci/Jill Fox, Sherida Evans, Yalonda Kirkland/Nicole Toto, Shea Levin

Self-contained Special Education:

Diana D’Addozio, Rebecca Antunes, and TBA

ELL: Arlene Aguirre, Kate Fearon, Meghan Hanley

Specialists:
Rebecca Martin – music, Christine Tischio – art, Jeff Lehman, Jordyn Freede, and TBA (part time) – physical education, Library/Media TBA, Jasmine Bloch – band, and TBA – orchestra

Class assignment letters will be mailed out to students in all district schools about a week before the start of the school year.

If you are wondering who is teaching 2nd and 3rd grade next year, you can look at the grade websites:

2nd grade:

3rd grade:

We will try to post more teacher updates and they become available.

Have you seen this article from Baristanet about the play dates being set up for our incoming Kindergartners? Check it out.

New Family Playdates: July 17 and August 28

Join us for the New Family Playdates at the Clinton school playground on Saturday July 17 and Saturday August 28, 10:00-11:30am. All families, new and returning, are welcome!

We hope you are all enjoying the early days of summer.

The last couple of weeks of school were full of wonderful events. One of them was recently covered on the school district’s website. Take a look at this great story that features Clinton’s 1st grade students: