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This year,our preschool program accommodated activities and projects created by our students. one three-day program,one two-day program and two Recognition Day took place in individual classrooms Monday through Thursday morning and afternoon acknowledging each student's accomplishment while integrated preschool sessions for children age 3 through an assembly was held for students who achieved perfect 5 years old. Through the Coombs School and The attendance awards and first and second place Good Coordinated Family and Community Engagement Manners certificates. Program, screenings, outreach to families and several workshops were provided for all incoming preschoolers The Coombs School continues work on the PBIS and their families. Julie Hall, our CFCE Coordinator, (Positive Behavior Intervention Support Program) continues to dedicate herself to providing programs that reinforcing Cocoa's Fab Four rules–Safety,Respect, strengthen Mashpee families. Julie made available a Responsibility and Ready to Learn while dovetailing workshop.series with various parenting specialist who these rules with our Second Step behavior program. To shared their wisdom on many typical parenting facilitate consistency between home and school parents 1 challenges faced by parents daily. Many families were informed of the progress of the Second Step units benefited from the literacy programs for babies and throughout the year. With staff and parent support, toddlers she co-sponsored with the Mashpee Public students developed social competence and bully- Library. Through the CFCE Grant, Julie coordinated busting skills in the core areas of empathy, emotion regular science,music,and cultural events for children management,and social problem solving. preschool through age eight. Educators have used the opportunities of routine The Coombs School sponsored many Countdown school issues to teach positive social-emotional skills to to Kindergarten activities through the Quality Full-Day all children. Additionally, Adjustment Counselor, Kindergarten Grant such as Build Your Own Lunch Eileen Manganella provided newsletters and literacy event for incoming families as well as several information on her website to educate families on how parent/child workshops throughout the school year. to best support their children to cope with challenging This grant also provided funding for kindergarten situations. She provided lessons in classrooms to classroom paraprofessionals. Parents had the further support the PBIS Program. opportunity to participate in activities as part of the Countdown to.Kindergarten Program. Most notable Margie Mitchell,PE Teacher, assisted in training was our annual Step Up to Kindergarten Program that recess monitors to implement and introduce Playworks educated families on everything they needed to know program to all students during recess. Playworks about the upcoming Kindergarten year. This was creates a place for every child on the playground—a conveyed through a panel presentation from staff and a place where everyone belongs, has fun and is part of media presentation created by Kindergarten Teachers, the game. We ensure that children have a place that is Tim Souza and Carolyn Swift. This program was safe and welcoming, where they can play and thrive, highly effective in assisting parents/guardians and belong and contribute. Our goal is every student children make the first transition to school. Countdown takes this positive experience back to the classroom and to Kindergarten Program also presented the Big Yellow back to learning. Bus, where incoming kindergarten students had an opportunity to take a short ride on the school bus, Teachers have received professional development participate in arts and crafts activities and have an ice in implementing specific interventions for reading. cream sundae at the end of the evening. Many First Targeted support and interventions were provided to Day Friends activities throughout the summer allowed small groups. Teachers continued implementing these students and their families to become acquainted differentiated,targeted instruction based on results and with the school community. Many of these activities conclusions from the data. Much of the work of are held in conjunction with Mashpee Coordinated analyzing data and developing interventions was Family and Community Engagement(MCFE) as well carried out in professional learning communities which as with the Mashpee Public Library and we thank them met weekly as well as on full-day professional for their support. development days. Staff worked collaboratively in Professional Learning Communities to examine student Both Math Night and Science Nights were work, identify academic needs and create effective attended by many families and served to highlight interventions in reading.DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators 118