SBAC news

Dear Families,

I hope you are enjoying the spring weather.

Before break, your child should have brought home an orange letter explaining the SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) testing.

On Monday, April 25^th, the ¾ teachers will allot two 30 minute times during class to go through the Math and ELA Classroom Activities (Performance Task prep).

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the tests will be administered from 8-11:00 am. Thursday morning students will be allowed to continue if they need extra time or missed school on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Your child can bring gum or hard candy if they would like during testing. Also, having one’s own earbuds or earphones will be important.

Due to the testing, there will be no assigned homework this week. Please make sure your child gets a good night sleep before testing days.

Thank you for your home support!

Anna

Here are some pictures of the students wiring a house for lights!

Here are pictures from our visit with Vermont Electric Co-op. 

Monday News

Dear Families,

On February 3, 2016, 175,000 students across the world participated in Global Play Day. Here at BPMS we are celebrating Global Play Day this week on Thursday, 4/14/16. Global School Play Day is for public schools, private schools, and home school families and is designed to spread the word about the benefits of unstructured play. Together we can reverse the downward trend in childhood play that many nations have experienced since the 1950's.

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”   -Plato

Please sign the permission slip sent home and read the guidelines for appropriate toys to bring in on that day. And please take a moment to visit the GSPD website:

 http://www.globalschoolplayday.com

 

Important Dates:

Wednesday , April 13^th: Late Start

VELCO will visit from 9:40-11:00 to teach the students about electricity.

Art and Music Show at 6 pm

Thursday, April 14^th: Global Play Day

Friday, April 15^th: Peking Acrobats at the Flynn in the morning

April 18-22: School Recess

April 26, 27, 28: SBAC from 8-10 am

May 3, 4, 5: SBAC from 8-10 am

Enjoy your week,

Anna

Monday News

Dear Families,

The students will not have homework this week. They earned a celebration for positive behavior and chose not to have homework for the week of April 4^th for their celebration.

We are still in need of rinsed out 1/2 gallon cardboard juice/soymilk, etc. containers for the building of a prairie schooner for the Westward Expansion unit. Thank you!

The Science Fair Showcase will be on Wednesday. Parents are invited to view the projects from 7:25 – 9 am. Feel free to help your child set-up at the beginning of the school day and stay to talk to the scientists and share information. At 9:00, the students will break for snack. Students will spend the morning showcasing their experiments to the rest of the school.

On Thursday, John Steven Gurney, our visiting author will teach the students about illustrating books. You can read more about Mr. Gurney at

http://www.johnstevengurney.com/

Attention 4^th grade parents:

There will be a CHMS Parent Information Night @ CHMS at 6:30 pm. Move-up day for all incoming 5^th graders will be on June 2^nd.  There will also be the 4^th grade track meet on May 27^th at MMU.

Enjoy your week,

Anna