What’s New Wednesday

Please see the attached flyers for information about vaccine clinics in Norwalk for children ages 5+ or use this link to find vaccine updates from the Community Health Center on Day Street in Norwalk.  COVID-19 Vaccine (chc1.com)

Open enrollment for the 2022 plan year is November 1, 2021 to January 15, 2022.  To start the year with health coverage customers must enroll by December 15, 2021.  Please see the flyer attached to this email for additional information and links to the AccessHealthCT.com website and in person enrollment locations.

Please find attached a newsletter from the Sasco River Center for information about a parent workshop tomorrow at 10 A.M. (registration required) which is part of an ongoing parenting series pertaining to emotional functioning and sensory regulation in adolescents.

Please click on this link to open the SBS event calendar for the month of November. https://www.sbscharter.org/events/

School will close tomorrow, Thursday, November 11 to commemorate Veteran’s Day.

The next Board of Directors meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 23 at 5:15 P.M.

School will close for the Thanksgiving recess beginning Wednesday, November 24 through Friday, November 26.

Picture re-take day is on Friday, December 3.  This day coincides with dress down day for students and staff.  Please notify the office if you want your child’s portrait re-taken and return the original portrait package to school. 

There will be a Scholastic Bookfair during the week of December 6 through December 10 in the gymnasium for students and their families.  Guests to the fair must present a vaccination card before entering the school building.  Students will receive an advance sales flyer and will have a chance to visit the fair with their teachers on Monday, December 6.

There will be two early dismissal (2 P.M.) days in December for parent teacher conferences, the first on Thursday, December 9 and the following Thursday, December 16.  Please remember to sign up for a conference time with your child’s teacher.  The attached memo contains information about marking periods and conference nights for upper and lower school.  

Please remember to click on the link below whenever you make qualifying purchases on Amazon.  As a participant of Amazon Smile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price to Side by Side Charter School.  Thank you to those Amazon shoppers who have kept Side by Side in mind while shopping online through the years.   https://smile.amazon.com/ch/22-3208841