Harborview Elementary School

December 12, 2016

HARBORVIEWS Express A weekly newsletter

Principal Tom McKenna

CROSS-AGE KINDNESS I stood at the door of Ms. Harvey’s classroom as 50some students streamed in out of the snow. Fifth graders from Ms. Box’s class and 2nd graders from Ms. Harvey’s class dropped their coats and backpacks in the hallway, clumped wads of snow from their boots, and eagerly found their Reader Buddies. The scene was a bit chaotic. I felt a pang of nerves about managing so many children in one space. Within minutes, “buddies” found their books and the “hum” of engagement -- the sound every teacher knows as the sweet spot of teaching--filled the room.

Dates to Remember DECEMBER: 12/12 12/12 12/13 12/15 12/21

Spelling Bee, Gym 9:00 am Site Council 4:30-5:45 PTA Meeting 5:30-6:30 Hooper/Hoppers Show HBV Gym 1:302:15 Teachers vs Kids B-ball game Marie Drake Gym 1:35 pm

12/23-1/6

Winter Break NO SCHOOL

JANUARY: 1/9 1/10 1/16 1/20

Return to School PTA Meeting 5:30-6:30 Martin Luther King Day NO SCHOOL Friday Fun Night 6:30 pm

Later in the day, I received an email from Ms. Milligan, giving me a heads-up that several of her students would be walking downstairs to deliver thank you notes to their first grade collaborators in one of Harborview’s multigrade writing displays. The fourth and fifth graders had Book titles for kids to check out: prepared cards and notes and scrolls to thank Ms. Goodreads Lists of Children's Books Thompson’s first graders who would read their correspondents’ notes and collaboratively write back. Ms. Thompson reported that her writers were “beaming with pride” and new enthusiasm for writing, in response to positive comments from the older writers.

Then still later in the afternoon, a fifth grader who was having trouble with self-regulation spent most of an hour helping kinder and first grade students in Mr. Josh’s K-1 math class. Based on the older child’s effectiveness with the primary students, Mr. Josh and I began thinking together about making this a regular event. Research supports the value of cross-age tutoring, and cross-age friendships, to children of all ages. These relationships, according to Damon and Phelps, can lead to “a host of important early achievements: children's understanding of fairness, their self-esteem, their proclivities toward sharing and kindness, their mastery of symbolic expression, their acquisition of role-taking and communication skills, and their development of creative and critical thinking.” (Cited in “Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring,” in Education Northwest’s School Improvement Research Series, 1995.) All classrooms at Harborview have partner classrooms. If you happen to wander by a classroom on one of the days when the older children and younger children are gathering, and like me you feel a bit of concern over the initial chaos of so many children finding space together in a classroom, I invite you to step in and to tune your ear to the hum of engagement and the practice of kindness. Tom McKennna, Principal 1

Harborview Elementary School

December 12, 2016

Library News and Notes Hour of Code is Here!!! We have been coding all week! We have also been using Cubetto (https:// geekdad.com/2016/03/cubetto/), a screen free programming robot that kinders and first graders have been enjoying. Ask your child about it. If your child would like to continue coding at home go to https://code.org/ A Big Thanks to RDI (Resource Data, Inc.) for volunteering to help with Hour of Code, and much appreciation to Shay and Erica Wilson for helping and for donating Cubetto Games to our school library.

What are Harborview students reading???? Open your own parent library account . Ms. Leary will set you up, and you can check out some books for Holiday Reading! RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS IDEA Stella Moran and Nick Iverson, student council members, organized and facilitated a sock drive to support members of our community.

Please contact me anytime for book suggestions! Julie Leary Harborview Librarian 523-1876, 523-1866 [email protected]

Book titles for kids to check out: Goodreads Lists of Children's Books Please label your children’s clothing and shoes. We make every effort to return lost items to your children if they are labeled. 2

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