Happy Halloween!

Dear Families,

Happy Halloween! I'm sure many of you are without power. What a storm! I hope everyone is safe and warm! We will be rescheduling fire safety day and kinderbuddies. I will let you know when a date is set.

The first book project is due Friday. The students will need to do a retell and a drawing of the setting from the book they read.

I have decided that we will only have students for our first publishing party for our narrative unit. In December, we will have another publishing party on the same day as the holiday singalong. At this publishing party, we will share our narrative and informational writing with families.

Happy Halloween,

Mrs. Carter

Pictures from our field trip to Shelburne Museum.

Monday News

Dear Families,

Our field trip to Shelburne Museum will be on Wednesday. Please make sure your child is wearing comfortable shoes for lots of walking. Our focus will be on westward expansion. 

Original Works are due to P.I.E. by Monday, October 23rd. This makes great gifts for the holidays (and students) and is a great way to support the school and all our budding artists! All orders will be returned by the end of November.

P.I.E. is organizing Trunk-or-Treating in the BPMS parking lot on Saturday, October 28th from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. Decorate your car or truck’s trunk with a theme, or just come out in costume! Be sure to take a stroll through the Spooky Walk as well!

Monday, October 30th is Fire Safety Day and Tuesday, November 7th is the MMU orchestra and Drum Line performance at noon. 

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter

Monday News

Dear Families,

There is no school on Thursday and Friday this week. The first book project assignment went home last week. Students should be reading a book at home and writing a retell about the book and drawing the setting. This is due November 3rd. Please contact me if you have questions. 

We will continue to work on our fiction stories in writing workshop. We will have a publishing party in November. I am sending out a survey to see if there is a time that works best for families to attend. 

Last week we got to know our kinderbuddies. The kinderbuddies' artwork is on display in the gym. 

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter 

Kinderbuddies Pictures 

Keep scrolling down for a few hike day photos!

Monday News

Dear Families,

We will have kinderbuddies on Monday. Our class will be matched up with Mrs. Parker's class. Our first kinderbuddies will focus on getting to know each other.  

We are leading all school morning meeting on Friday. 

HOMEWORK

Students should still be reading every day for at least 20 to 30 minutes at home. It is an essential habit to form now which will benefit your child forever. We will be starting our monthly book projects this month. These projects give children a creative way to share the books they have been reading at home with their friends at school. It's a great way to get kids interested in and talking about books and helps keep them accountable for reading at home. Look for the first book project assignment in your child's backpack.

The permission slip for our Flynn trips will be going home this week. Please sign and return to the school. Both shows are at 9:30 am and we will have lunch at school. 

Click to find out more about the Flynn shows!

February 9th, Pilobolus Shadowland

May 3rd, Machine de Cirque

Important Dates

October 11th :            2-Hour Delayed Start

October 19th:             Parent/Teacher Conferences, No School for Students

October 20th:             School Recess, No School for Students & Staff

Releasing a monarch butterfly that went through a metamorphosis in our classroom cage!

Enjoy your week, 

Mrs. Carter

Outdoor Classroom

Reading in the outdoor classroom!

Monday News

Dear Families,

Hike Day is Tuesday! Please send your child to school with comfortable shoes.

I will be out on Friday and the guest teacher will be Ms. Katz.

We are starting our Star Student Week this Monday. When your child is the star student, this will be the schedule:

Monday	Share your All About Me with the class Pick activity for the day
Tuesday	Bring in your favorite picture book from home (or the library) to share with the class.    Pick activity for the day
Wednesday	Lunch Bunch Bring 3 friends
Thursday	Show and tell day.  Bring something special to school that you would like to share. Pick activity for the day
Friday	Star Student book day.  As a class, we will each create a page of your book. Each of your classmates will write something special about you.

In Writing Workshop, we are developing characters for our fiction stories. 

This is the list of advice for developing a character:

• Start with whatever you've decided matters to you about your character. Is he or she like you?
• Put together a character so that all the parts fit together into a coherent person.
• Reread often. Ask yourself, "Do these different things make sense within one person? Is it believable?"
• Make the character complex and more human by asking, "What is the downside of this trait? How does this characteristic help or hurt the character?"

Enjoy these videos of the students starting to create their characters!
SG's character
LC's character
LT's character
RB's character
JM's character
AW's character
EP's character
CM's character

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter