Weekly News for Monday, March 14th

Last Friday, Miss Vermont Outstanding Teen winner, Sophia Parker, came in to talk about her love of animals, and what she does to help them. She is certified in animal rehabilitation and shared her stories and photos of how she started rescuing animals, and where she is today.  The students sat fully engrossed for an hour.  We wouldn't be surprised if your children end up trying to find an animal to help after listening to Sophia's presentation. 

On Thursday, we'll be taking part in the Vermont Symphony Orchestra performance at the Flynn. The children have been busy preparing by singing and playing the recorders in our classroom and in music class. Please make sure your child's recorder is returned to school on Monday, and that you send in the permission slip if you haven't done so already. It should be a great performance, especially since we will be part of the show! 

If you have not signed up for a conference, please do so at this link. If there is not a time available that works for you, please contact us and we'll figure something out.
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This Friday, March 18th, is the last day to contribute to our kitchen gadget basket for the family dance basket raffle on April 1st. If you would like to contribute an item, please sign up at this link and send the item in by Friday. Thanks to all who have already contributed!
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This week in reading, we'll continue to focus on character traits. Students have been working to come up with describing words about a character, and then supporting the description with evidence from the text. This work ties to the opinion writing students are doing as well.

In math, we are currently focusing on coin values (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters), solving story problems and playing games with coins. Reinforcing the coin names and values is something great to do at home as well.

Last Monday, students earned extra recess/sledding. We hope you enjoy the pictures! Have a great week!