Classroom News

Dear Families,

The students did a great job hosting all school morning meeting on Friday!

In science, we are finishing up our unit on organisms. We focused on animal survival and heredity. Organisms have variations in traits and the traits that help them survive, are passed to future generations. Humans can impact selection by selective breeding of animals, including dog breeds and selectively choosing variations in vegetables and fruits that we favor. By understanding selection, students can imagine how some animals of the past became domesticated, but allows students to also imagine how they might look in the future. Our next science unit will focus on energy. 

In writing and reading workshop, we read non-fiction texts and wrote informational books. Now that we have completed a piece of writing in each unit (narrative, opinion and informational), we will go through the units again, but with a different lens (a new focus) for each piece of writing. In narrative writing, we focused on elaboration. In opinion writing, we focused on structure, and in informational writing, we focused on the text features.

Tuesday is the Holiday Sing-along at 1:30.

During our Outdoor Day on Thursday, we will be celebrating the Winter Solstice. We will make lanterns, food for the birds, have hot cocoa, and make bread on sticks by a fire!

On Friday, we will have a holiday craft day.

Boston chaperone forms are due by the 21st. Unfortunately, we will have to use the lottery system to choose chaperones, due to the high demand. I wish we could take everyone!

Book projects are due January 4th.

Please remind your young person to bring a glass jar by Thursday.

Thank you for all the supplies that have been donated this week for our celebrations! We couldn't do it without all your support!

Have a happy holiday!

Mrs. Carter

‪Our tea cups!

Monday News

Dear Families,

Report cards will go home in your child's backpack on Monday. Please sign the envelope and have your child bring the envelope back to school.

This week is Hour of Code all across the world! You can learn about coding at Code.org or watch the video below.

Enjoy your week,
Mrs. Carter

Audubon field trip! Learning about tracks in the snow. 

Monday News

Dear Families,

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I spent Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania with family.

We are starting our informational writing unit and our non-fiction reading unit.

On Wednesday, we will start nutrition with Alison. This will be every Wednesday for 15 minutes. I will be out on Wednesday for a math meeting and Ms. Scudder-Chase will be the guest teacher.

On Thursday, we will head to the Audubon for a lesson about winter wildlife. Please send your child to school with enough clothing to spend the day outside (10am-2pm). We will have lunch in the educational barn at Audubon.

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter

Monday News

Dear Families,

The book fair is this week! Proceeds help pay for for our visiting author, Jason Chin.

On Tuesday, we will take the students to the polls to ¨vote¨. Physical education will be outside on Tuesday, so please send appropriate clothing for your child to be outside on Tuesday and Thursday (outdoor day).

A new book project was sent home on Friday. Please click here to see the directions and rubric.

Square 1 Art orders for PIE are due Tuesday, November 6th, either by paper (turned into the PIE box), phone, or online.

Thanks so much in advance


Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter

Monday News

Indoor recess fun!

 Composting with worms!

 Fire Safety Day! Thank you firefighters!

Our class has the job of flag everyday. The flag will be at half-staff until October 31st to honor the victims of the tragedy in Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, October 27, 2018. I will not be discussing the event with students, but they will be aware of the flag being lowered. Families can decide how they want to approach the topic with their children.   Here is a resource to help with your decision:

https://www.nctsn.org/resources/tips-parents-and-caregivers-media-coverage-traumatic-events

Notes from Nurse Heather

It Is Screening Time!

Hearing and Vision Screenings per Vermont state standards
have been being done this week and will continue into next week.  
PK, K, 1 and 3 will be routinely screened. If you hear nothing
from me, your child’s screening was normal. If you receive a
referral letter, the next step is to take your child to their
doctor for further screening.  If you have any questions,
please contact me at school.

               

Monday News

Dear Families,

Friday is Fire Safety Day.

I will be out Thursday afternoon for a math meeting. Mrs. Stone will be our guest teacher.

Here is a little picture walk through our adventures last week:

What do you do on Outdoor Day when you need to identify a tree and it’s too COLD outside to write? Take a bunch of pictures and do the work in a warm classroom! Then, drink hot lemon balm tea you collected from your tea garden!

Showing off our true stories. Our focus was on elaboration - showing feelings, thinking, dialogue and actions.

Publishing Party with our classmates.

Publishing Party! Reading our true stories to the first and second graders. Look at those engaged students!

Kinderbuddy Time. Applesauce, apples and pumpkins, oh my!