This school year, Jerred Anderson has partnered with DewMore, a local organization whose mission is to use art as a tool to increase civic engagement in marginalized communities throughout Greater Baltimore. Students met with their teaching artist, Mecca, and Mr. Jerred each week at CNH after school to develop their own personal poems.  This weekend, the students and Mr Jerred spent the weekend at the Dew More poetry festival where they were able to perform their poems in front of (and be cheered by) peers from other schools, community members, and professional poets.  What an amazing opportunity for our students!  Thank you, Mr. Jerred, for leading this charge all year at CNH!

Have a great week!

–Dr. Shyla.

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Noteworthy Upcoming Dates:

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Spring Fling THIS SATURDAY, 12:00-4:00

 

Join us THIS SATURDAY, May 7, from 12pm-4pm, for our City Neighbors Hamilton Spring Fling!

• Purchase lunch from Two Guys Grill food truck

• Play carnival games

• Buy plants for your garden or for Mother’s Day

• Dunk each other (and some staff) in a dunking booth

• Pie staff or family members in the face with whipped cream pies

• Enjoy an open mic presented by our talented students and families

• Soak in the beautiful weather with CNH friends and family!

We are looking for volunteers to help out!  Please reach out to Kate Funderburk (kateking0216@gmail.com) if you are interested!

CNH Gear Day – We will have CNH logos ($5 each) to print on t-shirts (or any fabric item) that you bring.  We will also have some surprise gear for you to purchase on-site!

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Progress Report Conferences This Week

Our Trimester 3 Progress Report Conferences are this week, May 4-6.  We will dismiss at 1:00 each day. Conferences may be either in-person or online – If you haven’t already, please sign-up for your conferences with your child’s homeroom teacher or advisor.

Aftercare is on a slightly altered schedule.  Please see below for important updates.

Below are the times on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of conferences when aftercare programming is available:

• Wednesday, May 4

  • K-2 goes to Fitness Fun and Games at 1:15 as usual and will be with FFG until 6:30 pm

  • Grades 3-7 students, who are enrolled in Elev8, will be with CNH staff from 1:00-3:15.

  • All students who are enrolled in Elev8 will need to be picked up at 3:15 on Wednesday,  May 4.

• Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6 – All enrolled aftercare students will be with CNH staff from 1:00-3:30.  At 3:30, all students will be dropped off in the cafe for either Fitness Fun and Games or Elev8 to take over. The list below identifies who is assigned to each grade from 1:00-3:30.

Any student who is not currently enrolled in aftercare programming with Elev8 or Fitness Fun and Games must be picked up at 1:00 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

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Spring Gallery Night

Wednesday June 1, 2022 from 6:00-8:00pm.

Join us as we gather in person to celebrate the students and their hard work.

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2021-2022 CNH Yearbook

We are so excited to share the return of the CNH Yearbook. Keeping with tradition, we had students submit their own cover designs and held a vote to determine the winner. Rowan McCabe’s colorful digital drawing will be highlighted on the cover this year. All student cover designs will be included and celebrated in the yearbook as well. Thank you to all of the amazing student artists. Sales of the 2021-2022 CNH Yearbook are now open. Yearbooks will be distributed during the last week of school June 13th-15th. 8th graders that order a yearbook will receive theirs at graduation.

Order Your Copy:  Order Form (http://tinyurl.com/CNHyearbook2022).

Paper Order Forms will be distributed Monday 5/2/22

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MCAP Testing Schedule

Make sure your Middle School students come with charged Chromebooks and headphones each day, please!

It’s also important that all students get a good night’s sleep the night before each of their testing days. We will do our best to minimize the stress of testing and to help them remain centered and calm throughout each day.

May 2022

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Family Participation Hours

Scan this QR Code to log your hours!

 My name is Kate Funderburk and I am the new Family Participation Committee chair.  I am looking forward to getting to know more of you and working in this new role!

I am also very excited that the kids are all back to in-person learning!  With that being said, here is a great opportunity for you to log the hours that you spent assisting and working with your child during virtual school!  You can follow the link below to record these hours.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckDqipbD2BH1PJOO2nooxTPFqv_QtMliV-4mzsavh1cMAjMw/viewform

As a friendly reminder, families are encouraged to log 40 hours per school year.  Logging hours is SUPER easy.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for any questions regarding your family’s participation hours:  kfunderburk@cityneighborshamilton.org

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Get Your CNH Gear!

Come to Spring Fling this weekend to make your own gear or order gear and other products in the link below.

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Donations to the School

If you would like to donate money to the school (for any reason), the easiest way is through our PayPal account. If you want your donation to go to a specific fund or activity (general educational expenses, technology, arts, etc), please note it with your donation.  PayPal Donate Button on website: http://cityneighborshamilton.org/

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Helpful Links

• School Website

• Student Handbook

• School Calendar

• Log your Family Participation Hours Here

• Before and After Care Information and Payment Links