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The Runkle News
Newsletter published weekly by the Runkle PTO
Submissions by Wednesday, 12:00 p.m. to runklenews@brookline.k12.ma.us
School main phone number: (617) 879-4650
Absence line: (617) 879-4249
Website: www.runkle.org
Newsletter Editors: Amy Bacon, Nafeeza Hafeez, Michele Petryk
Issue: #8-15
October 19, 2014
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From the PTO
Dear Runkle Community,
This Week's Events
We are coming off an exciting week at Runkle and looking forward to
another. On Wednesday, Runkle families participated in the town-wide
Car-Free Day. Thanks to Spring Salvin and Katja Vinha for organizing the
event and also to Dorothy Charles, Josie Petersen, and Renae Puppo for
greeting "car-free" kids with a hand stamp.
7th & 8th Grade Volleyball
Wed Oct 22
3:15 pm
Pierce@Runkle
Amy Bacon and Josie Petersen organized a very successful Food on
Wheels drive for the Brookline Food Pantry, which culminated Sunday
afternoon with Runkle families walking all the contributions to the Pantry
from Emerson Park. Thanks to Amy and Josie and all who contributed and
participated in the walk. The Food Pantry greatly appreciates your efforts.
On Friday, many Runkle 5th - 8th graders participated enthusiastically in
the town-wide cross country meet at Larz Anderson, with the 6th graders
sporting their new Runkle T-shirts, funded by your contributions to the
Annual Fund and coordinated by Sandy Costello and Emily Dolbear.
Thank you for your generosity!
Thank you to Andrea Bleichmar for hosting the 4th Grade Potluck
Saturday night. Fun was had by all who attended.
This coming Friday, parents have the opportunity to have breakfast with
their child(ren) in the Runkle cafeteria beginning at 7:30 a.m. This event is
organized by Brookline's Wellness Committee. We also look forward to the
annual Halloween Fair on Friday. There are still plenty of opportunities to
get involved. Please see below for more information on both events.
Lastly, the PTO will be kicking off this year's Music in the Morning series
on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:40 am. Please email pto@runkle.org if
you or your child(ren) would like to play an instrument or sing in the Main
Lobby as students are arriving for school. All levels/abilities are welcome.
Sincerely,
Trish Blais, 617-232-2502, trishblais@comcast.net
Catherine Burke, 617-738-8844, cfburke@rcn.com
Runkle PTO co-chairs
2014 Runkle Halloween Fair
Friday, October 24
from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Rain or shine!
We still need plenty of parent volunteers to
ELL Open House
Thurs Oct 23
7:30 am - 8:15 am
Room 324B
Family Breakfast at Runkle
Fri Oct 24
7:30 am - 8 am
Cafeteria
Grades 1/2 Friday Feedback
Fri Oct 24
8:05 am - 9 am
Cafeteria
Halloween Fair
Fri Oct 24
5:30 pm - 8 pm
Runkle School
Kindergarten Potluck
Sat Oct 25
Home of Spring and Robert Salvin
Upcoming PTO Event:
Parent Information Session
Physical Education K-8 Curriculum
Wed Oct 29 @ 8:05 am
Friday Feedback Sessions
with
Dr. Beauchaine
8:05 - 9:00 am
Runkle Cafeteria
Grades 1 and 2 Fri Oct 24
Kindergarten Fri Nov 7 (new date)
Breakfast at Runkle
Cafeteria
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help with all aspects of the fair. Please click
Here to volunteer!
Fri Oct 24
starting at 7:30 am
Tickets will be on sale beginning Monday, October 20th
before and after school in the playground area.
As you know, the Halloween Fair is right around the corner and many
parents are working hard to make it a fun night. The Runkle Halloween
Fair is an event that many Runkle students and families enjoy each year!
Young students, in particular, enjoy dressing up as a fantasy figure such
as a wizard, dragon, a comic book character or even a figure in history
such as Abraham Lincoln.
Keep in mind, the fair is a family event and welcomes children of all ages
to attend so please consider this suggestion when picking out your
costumes.
Some of the most popular costumes today include weapons, scary face
paint or masks. In an effort to assist in the decision-making regarding
which costumes and accessories are appropriate for the Halloween Fair at
school, please consider whether the costume and accessories would be
too violent, gory, or suggestive for an event open to all ages. Please do
keep in mind that costumes must not demean any race, religion, gender,
or culture.
Runkle is proud of its diverse student body, representative of many
nationalities and its sensitivity in avoiding stereotypical representations.
Halloween can be a fun "fantastic" event for the students who celebrate
Halloween. Thank you for helping to ensure a safe, comfortable
environment for all members of the Runkle community.
To celebrate National Food Day, parents and
their child(ren) are welcome to have
breakfast at the Runkle cafeteria starting at
7:30 a.m. The breakfast will consist of
an oatmeal bar, with nuts, raisins and real
maple syrup available.
The price for the meal will be $1.75 for kids
and $2.50 for adults, which includes a piece
of fruit and milk. Parents can charge their
purchase to their child's account and will only
need to provide their child's name in the
event they do not remember the child's
account number. The cafeteria will also
accept check or cash on that day.
Please RSVP by Tuesday to Runkle's
Wellness Committee rep, Lan Dennie,
at ldennie@rcn.com.
Parents are always welcome to have
breakfast with their child(ren) anytime during
the year. Please email Brookline's Director of
Food Services Alden Cadwell at
alden_cadwell@brookline.k12.ma.us if there
are any item(s) you would like to see on the
breakfast menu.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Beauchaine.
Wellness Committee
Runkle Parent Rep Needed
Thank You to all who donated food and to those who
walked on Sunday. Food on Wheels was a great success.
Math Collaboration
6th Grade Students
November 12
The PTO is proud to sponsor a Math enrichment
opportunity for 6th grade students. On November 12, sixth graders will
have the opportunity to participate in a Math Collaboration. A Math
Collaboration is a special math event that is designed to be
mathematically intense, fully collaborative, empowering, leadership
building, communication developing, friendship inducing and most
importantly FUN. Students will work together to solve a group puzzle. If
the students are successful, they all win a prize.
Since Nov. 12 is an early release day, the event will start 12:50pm and end
at 3pm. The event will be limited to 40 students. The deadline to sign up is
October 24. You can sign your child up here: http://goo.gl/jqNTXX. If you
have further questions, please contact Eugene Shih
at eugene.shih@gmail.com for more information.
Save the Date
The Public Schools of Brookline's Wellness
Committee is looking for an additional
Runkle parent to represent our community in
this important effort.
Now entering its seventh year, the
committee meets quarterly to address a
range of youth-serving initiatives in areas of
nutrition, fitness/recreation, mental health,
chemical health, healthy relationships, and
climate change awareness.
Contact Lan Dennie, current Runkle
representative, at ldennie@rcn.com if you
are interested in serving on the committee or
have questions. Please go to here to view
minutes from past meetings.
Town Meetings:
Board of Selectmen Public Hearing on the Override Study
Committee
Monday, Oct 20
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Selectmen's Hearing Room
Town Hall, 6th Floor
Click here for more info.
Wed Oct 29
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Parent Information Session:
Physical Education Curriculum K-8
Come hear from Mr. McTaggart and Ms. Schultz,
two of Runkle's PE teachers, as they
discuss Brookline's Physical Education curriculum for K-8. Mr.
Banks will be teaching
at Heath and unable to attend.
Please join us in the Runkle cafeteria.
Coffee will be served
Board of Selectmen
Tues Oct 21
Selectmen's Hearing Room
Town Hall, 6th floor
click here for more info.
School Committee Workshop
Thurs Oct 23
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
School Committee Room
Town Hall 5th Floor
Click here for more info
Click here for all town meetings.
Unless otherwise posted the public is welcome to
attend all meetings.
MANAGING THE RUNKLE NEWS
8th Grade Bake Sale
November 4 - Main Lobby
Before and After School
The 8th Grade class is planning a bake sale on Election Day,
Tuesday, November 4, in the Main Lobby, before and after school.
There will be something for everyone - including coffee in the
morning and gluten-free baked items!
All proceeds going towards the Runkle 8th Grade Fund for their
class trip to NYC and graduation activities.
Come join us and support our 8th graders!
A SALON (of sorts) FOR OUR ADULT
COMMUNITY
An evening of poetry by and for
members of our Runkle community.
Thurs Nov 6 at 7 pm
All are welcome to attend the November 6 evening event.
Come to our Martin Sleeper Library to read or share poetry (your
own or another poet whom you enjoy).
We'll meet from 7-8:30 pm to read and be with each other.
If you want to read, let Geri Belle know by contacting her
at geri_belle@brookline.k12.ma.us
Please pass this along to present and past members of our
community.
Grade Level Potlucks:
A Back to School Tradition for
Parents!
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Please note:
The Runkle News
and PTO have not researched and are not responsible
for the services, products, and/or requests made in
these ads.
Nanny Available
Nanny looking for full or part-time position.
Excellent references provided. Please
contact Karla Terminel
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Chemistry-Tutor
Chemistry lessons offered in Brookline by a
licensed Massachusetts chemistry teacher. I
have a Master's degree in organic chemistry
with more than 10 years of teaching
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Helping Kids Communicate!
Speech-language services in your home
Meryl Heller Schram, MS,
CCC-SLP, an experienced and respected
pediatric speech-language
pathologist,provides individual services in the
home setting. Services are available
year-round for toddlers through middleschoolers with developmental speechlanguage disorders, language-learning
disabilities, articulation/phonological
disorders, autism spectrum disorders,
and apraxia. Treatment programs
are tailored to the youngsters' specific
needs and parent involvement is
encouraged, resulting in
measurableprogress. All services are
self-pay. For more information or to make an
1st Grade: November 15 at Nancy Rhei-Gorer & Jason Gorer
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3rd Grade: November 8 at Shannon & George Tolis
6th Grade: November 22 at Susan Gold
7th Grade: November 15 at Michele & Adam Petryk
8th Grade: November 1 at Jennifer Meader & Mark Lowenstein
appointment, contact:Meryl Heller Schram,
M.S., CCC-SLP,
617-733-1995, mhschram@comcast.net
Thank you to all our hosts!
From the Principal
Dear Families,
Bus Reminders...
Please remember that we are not able to use the school bus to
provide transportation for "play dates". Oftentimes, when this has
been done in the past, one or both parent parties have not been
aware of the arrangement. The district has made a firm decision
that the buses can only transport assigned transportation students
to their assigned stop. From time to time, there is a pre-approved
exception due to an emergency situation such as a medical need,
but this must be arranged and approved in advance. Thank you for
your understanding.
How are literacy skills taught at Runkle?
During some of the recent Friday Feedback Sessions, there have
been some questions about our philosophy of literacy instruction.
For the past four years, Brookline has been partnering with the
Literacy Collaborative at Lesley University. Out of this partnership,
Brookline has trained several Literacy Coaches either at K-2, 3-5, or
6-8. Runkle School and Pierce School were the first two schools to
join and our Runkle Literacy Coach, Kristin Gray has worked with the
K-2 teachers for the past three years promoting Fountas and
Pinnell's Language and Literacy Framework, which includes
Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, and Word Study. Through
extensive pedagogical study and implementing these practices
with support from Ms. Gray, our literacy instruction is consistent from
classroom to classroom and from grade to grade in K-2. Teachers
are speaking a common language about what their students are
learning and the students understand the structures and routines
that reduce transitional time and increase time on learning.
Our continued development of literacy instruction does not stop at
second grade. This year, ALL K-8 teachers of ELA are involved in this
professional development in some way. K-2 teachers are continuing
their work with Ms. Gray and she is also working with the entire
grades 3-5 classroom teachers to build the consistency at our
school for literacy instruction in the intermediate grades. In addition,
over the past few years, individual teachers in grades 3-5 have
received professional development on specific elements of the
workshop model such as "guided reading". Four of our teachers in
grades 6-8 are also involved in 40 hours of professional
development this year with the Grade 6-8 Literacy Coach Rachel
Hayashi who works with the upper grade ELA staff at Runkle and
Heath.
At all levels, there is a focus on Reading Workshop, Writing
Workshop, as well as Language/Word Study. For example, an
"interactive read aloud" may be used in Kindergarten, Fourth
Grade, and Eighth Grade, but what the students are responding to
as they are experiencing the literature together varies depending
upon the concept or skill being taught. There is a helpful chart that
delineates the various elements of the workshop model that we are
in the process of implementing at Runkle. You may find the following
link helpful:
http://www.literacycollaborative.org/docs/framework.pdf
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CONGRATULATIONS RUNKLE ATHLETES!
On Friday, we had 27 student athletes in grades 5-8 compete in the
annual fall cross-country meet! The students departed around 8:30
am and spent the next four hours or so with their peers from across
the town in a positive competitive atmosphere. We are proud of the
good sportsmanship displayed and many of our athletes did even
better than last year! GO RUNKLE!
Sincerely,
Vanessa C. Beauchaine, Ed.D.
Principal
From the Classroom
English Language Learner, ELL
Open House
Thurs Oct 23
7:30 am -8:15 am
ELL Classroom Room 324B
ELL parents are invited to come and meet other ELL parents, learn more
about Runkle School, and see student work.
Please email Lauren Carroll at lauren_carroll@brookline.k12.ma.us with
any questions.
Grades 7 & 8 Math Problem of the Week:
Sharing Candy
Tommy has a 1.69 ounce bag of M&M's. The bag contains 56 M&M's. He decides
to share his candy by giving Lucy two-thirds of three-fourths of his M&M's. Lucy
decides to share her M&M's with Melissa by giving Melissa two-thirds of threefourths of her M&M's. If half of Melissa's M&M's are red, how many red M&M's
does she have?
Last Week's Problem and Solution
Mouse Race
Two mice are racing around the edges of a square whose sides are 2 feet in
length. They start at the same vertex (corner) and both go in a clockwise direction.
One mouse travels at a constant rate of 1 foot per second, and the second mouse
travels at a constant rate of 2 feet per second. After 22 seconds, how far apart will
the mice be from each other?
Solution
2 feet apart. Label a square with vertices A, B, C, and D in clockwise order.
Suppose the mice start at vertex A. After 22 seconds, the first mouse will be on
vertex D, while the second mouse will be on vertex C. Therefore, they will be two
feet apart.
Look for the answer in the next issue of the Runkle News!
See www.lassmath.com for more problems from Mr. Lass.
From the Community
Boston Children's Museum Lunch & Learn
Wed Oct. 22nd 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
308 Congress Street, Boston
Dr. Robert B. Brooks, a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical
School who has also served as the Director of the Department of
Psychology at McLean Hospital, will speak about Raising Resilient
Children and Adolescents. To register please go to the following
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Young People's Concert (The Emperor and The Nightingale)
Sun Oct 26 at 4 pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Children FREE. Adults/$12. For tickets
MISTRAL, one of Boston's preeminent chamber music series announces
the return of their popular family concert. The wonderful Alan McLellan of
WGBH radio will narrate. It will be a fun one hour concert with the children
(recommended 5 and up) interacting with the musicians and an instrument
petting zoo at the end. Since it is so close to Halloween we are
encouraging the kids to wear their Halloween
costumes! visit www.MistralMusic.org, call 978.474.6222
Shakespeare: "Love's Labour's Lost"
Nov 5 at 3:30 pm; November 6, 7, 8, 7:30 pm
Roberts/Dubbs Auditorium
Our production of this lively Shakespeare comedy is set in 1929 at the
prestigious, all-male University of the Nine Worthies. Ferdinand, Prince of
Navarre, and his friends swear resistance to women-but are challenged
with the arrival of The Princess of France and her retinue. The wooing
atmosphere is heightened by love -- requited and not. Will the men end up
with the women? Will the women end up with the women? Come see the
show to find out! No charge for elementary school
students. www.fopabhs.org
Open House - Corner Co-op Nursery School
Sat Nov 8, 10 am - Noon
1773 Beacon Street, Brookline
(Corner of Beacon and Dean Rd, entrance on Dean Rd)
Ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years
Corner Co-op is an exciting and safe place for children to initiate
and choose, be free and responsible, experiment and discover, play and
make friends. Contact us for more information at 617-738-4631 or visit us
online www.cornercoop.org
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