Respect, Responsibility, and Regard

6.8.20

BISHOP BEARS

Here is your SEL Week at a Glance.

Arlington Food Resource

Arlington EATS and the Town of Arlington will be delivering shelf-stable food to
any Arlington resident in need. To receive food:

• Call Arlington Food Hotline at (781) 316-3400 or click here.

• Please leave a message with your name, address, phone number, family size
and you will receive a call back as soon as possible.
• Deliveries will include canned and shelf-stable food and may include prepared
meals.
• Please call back when you need another delivery.

Bishop Family Notice - Please inform your current classroom teacher and Mrs.
Gonsalves (ygonsalves@arlington.k12.ma.us) if your family will be moving out of the
Bishop district next school year. Thank you so much.

Talking to Your Child About Race -

 It is my hope that you will find this useful

CNN/Sesame Street Racism Town Hall

Dear Bishop Families -

As we are now into the second week of June, with two weeks remaining in the school
year, we find ourselves in a very different place than we are used to. There are a lot of
emotions we are feeling including a great sense of pride in all that we have
accomplished this year and that feeling of loss for what we are missing. Over the next
two weeks, the Bishop staff and administration will be working with our students on
activities that will allow for a sense of closure on the year and a look ahead at what is
to come in the next grade level.

I ask that you read this Weekly Update in its entirety, as this is a comprehensive look
at the last weeks of school.

I hope this finds you and your family well.

- Mark

Bishop Kindergarten Meet and Greet For Incoming Families -

Wednesday, June 10th @ 2:00pm On behalf of the
entire Bishop staff, welcome! We are thrilled that your Kindergarten student will be
joining us in the fall. In an effort to communicate all of the important Bishop
Kindergarten information to families, we are sending you this email with a number of
attachments. We ask that you take the time to please read through all the documents
in this email, return the Family Questionnaire by June 15th, and fill out the form
below with questions for the Meet and Greet.

- Family Questionnaire- Please make a copy of this document (you will be prompted
to do this once you open it) and fill it out. You will return it to
Mmcaneny@arlington.k12.ma.us OR by mail to Mark McAneny, Bishop School, 25
Columbia Rd, Arlington MA, 02474 on or before June 15th. Family Questionnaire

- Slide Presentation- This was created by the Kindergarten teachers to give you a
brief overview of the daily routines and curriculum. Slide Presentation

- Virtual Tour- This video gives you a virtual tour of the Kindergarten
classrooms. Please note that the video was created recently while we have been in
closure. Virtual tour
 - Nurse Martin's letter- Katie Martin, our school nurse, has also included a letter to
address how to prepare for your child to enter Kindergarten. Nurse letter

Lastly, we want to invite you to a virtual Meet and Greet with the Kindergarten team
on Wednesday June 10th @ 2pm. In order to address all the questions you have, we
have included this form for you to ask questions ahead of time. We will take these
questions and incorporate the answers into our presentation on June 10th.

Although we cannot meet each of you in person this spring, we want you to know
that we are all so excited for you to be joining the Bishop family. Even in our present
remote learning setting, we are still enthusiastically planning for your children to join
us in the fall!

Student Belongings Distribution Plan - Thursday, June

11th On
Thursday, June 11th, during your scheduled time (listed below), you will drive into our
typical drop-off line in the Bishop parking lot and pull up to the side of the school,
where Mrs. Liner and I will be staged.

To expedite this process, please make a sign to put on the passenger side of your
dashboard with your child's first and last name and their teacher's name. We will read
your sign, gather all your child's belongings, and place them into the trunk or rear of
your vehicle.

Times for student belongings pick up

8:00am -
9:00am Kindergarten
9:15am - 10:30am 1st
grade
10:45am - 11:45am 2nd
grade
12:00pm - 1:00pm 3rd
grade
1:15pm - 2:15pm 4th
grade
2:30pm - 3:30pm 5th grade
If you are unable to come at your scheduled time, there will be an opportunity on
June 16th to pick up your belongings. We will add information about this alternate
date in the Sunday updates. It is our hope that you will be able come on the 11th.

NOTE: If you have multiple children in different grades, you can make ONE STOP;
there is no need for you to return at another time.

5th grade families and families who will not be returning to Bishop next year, only -
Please return any library books during this time; thank you. (reference message
below)

Walk-ups are welcomed - Please come with a mask.

A Message From Our Dedicated, Awesome Library

Staff

Dear Bishop Community,

It has been some time since you heard from us in this Bulletin, although we have been
active in your children’s Google Classrooms throughout the past few months.

We have been thinking of you, and wanted to reach out now with two very different
messages:

1. Since we believe so strongly in the power of children's books, we have posted

some age appropriate materials (including a number of read alouds), about
Racism and Civil Rights on the Bishop Library Website that you may find useful
as the starting point for important conversations. Some materials are posted
directly, but there is a password to access others, because we would like to
ensure students are viewing them with an adult to provide context and
support. It is b3ar5. The link to the website
is https://sites.google.com/arlington.k12.ma.us/bishop-library/welcome-to-
the-bishop-library?authuser=0.
2. We would like to ask all families that are LEAVING the Bishop community, to
please bring in any Bishop Library books that you have at home when you
come to school next week to collect your child’s belongings. There will be a
way to drop them off in the drive by line. If you are not sure which books
belong to the Bishop library, we are happy to let you know. Please email us at
either avaishnaw@arlington.k12.ma.us or JBloch@arlington.k12.ma.us.
Remember that our library books are typically covered in some sort of plastic
 and have a barcode on the front that says “Bishop Media Center”. We wish you
all the very best luck in your new schools next year!

If your family will be back at Bishop in the fall, we ask you to please KEEP our books
safe at home with you, and we will collect them later.

We hope that you are all staying safe. We thank you for your cooperation, we are
thinking of you all, and we miss you and your children!

Best wishes this summer, Alison Vaishaw and Justine Bloch

Bishop School Principal’s Advisory Council - Thursday, June 11th @

5:30pm - This is an open
meeting to Bishop community members, with a public comment opportunity during
the first 10 minutes of the
agenda. If you would like to join, we
will meet here: Join with Google Meet

Items on the agenda include: Current Events and Response - Current Update on
Remote Learning - Summer Work - Fall Update - Building project update - New
Bishop School Improvement Plan Development for 2020-2023

Chromebooks Kept Over the

Summer -
Families who have borrowed Chromebooks during this remote
learning experience may keep these devices over the summer. If you encounter
technical difficulties over the summer, please access the APS Digital Learning
Homepage for assistance.

Summer Reading
Program
Thanks to Pam Watts-Flavin and her team at
Robbins Library for organizing an online Summer Reading Program this year. We have
attached two pages that explain the Summer Reading program for kids through the
Arlington Libraries. Included in the information sheets are: a description of summer
reading, how to sign up for summer reading, a summer reading chart, how to access
e-books and e-audio and other great stuff that they have on-line, and some links and
information about some of the great programs that they are offering through the
libraries this summer. Please watch their Kids website at robbinslibrary.org.for more
times and places to get free books! We strongly encourage all of our Bishop Bears to
take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. We are very fortunate to have a town
library that is dedicated to our young readers and they never disappoint. Enjoy!!

Summer Help Needed in the Bishop

Garden
Hello Bishop Community
-
Audrey Hepburn once said 'To plant a garden is to believe
in tomorrow’ and at the Bishop School garden we are planting crops for a better
future to come. Our typical garden programming includes several lessons where
students plant seeds in the spring, care for them until summer vacation, and return in
the fall to marvel at how the garden has grown and harvest their crops. Students
weren’t able to plant anything in the garden this spring, but we are preparing the
beds so garden lessons can continue in the fall if conditions allow. Principal McAneny
has repaired the beds, HomeHarvest has filled them with compost, seeds and
seedlings, and we are looking for volunteers from the Bishop School community to
help water the garden over the summer.

No gardening experience is necessary, just a desire to spend time outside nurturing

veggie seedlings. Some crops we’ll need for our lessons in the fall, but others will be
available to share as thanks for your help. For more information and to sign up for a
week of watering, please visit our Google doc here: https://tinyurl.com/ydc53tbn

Abigail Wolf - Operations Manager, Educator and Herbalist - 508 308 9365

www.homeharvest.biz

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. Second best time is now!

Bookmark Chart - signup eboooks A.pdf Bookmark Chart -

frontplayMay2020.pdf Additional Resources:
Navigating Technology

Information on how to log into Spyponder accounts is found here.

Spyponders Account Troubleshooting Document

How to connect to a wireless network:

Chromebook - https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047420?hl=en

Other online resources: https://arlingtonenrich.wixsite.com/mysite/updates