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Notes from the Principal

Mrs. Cherrington

I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happyholiday season. We are looking forward to theWinter Concert on December 10

at 6:30. Thebackdrop this year will be filled with art projects thatthe children have completed with Mrs. Trimpi. Thefollowing week on December 17

the children willenjoy an African Music and Dance Ensemble at theMiddle School. The program begins at 8:45. Theperformance will last 30 minutes and then there willbe a 15 minutes audience participation segment. TheWinter School break begins on December 23 andruns until our return on January 4, 2010.

December 1, 2009 Issue 1www.bvsvt.org

Dates toRemember

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Dec. 7: H1N1 Flu Clinic

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Dec. 10: Winter Concert6:30

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Dec. 17: K-6 to WUHSfor Drumming Program

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Dec. 23-Jan. 1: HolidayRecess/No Classes

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Jan. 8: Ski/SkateRunners Begins

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Jan. 18: Martin LutherKing Day/No Classes

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Feb. 8: Grades 3-6 toPentangle

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Feb. 15-19: WinterRecess/No Classes

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Mar. 19: Grades 1-5 toPentangleThe Bridgewater Village School’s staff is enjoying itstradition of making wreaths for purchase. Proceeds willgo to area families who are in need. Decorated wreathsare $15 and undecorated wreaths are $10.

HOLIDAY CONCERT!T

HURSDAY

ECEMBER

6:30Students should be in theirclassrooms by

6:15

Bridgewater VillageSchool Bear Illustrations Provided by the Sixth Grade

Mrs. Grinold’s class iscollecting children’s

socks, hats

, and

mittens

for women and children.The donations will go to alocal Women’s Shelter.

The Classes

Kindergarten Corner

The Kindergarten class has been making connections tonumbers in math. We have been using a daily questionwe call “ Today’s Question “ to have conversationsabout numbers and how we use numbers in the world.Our most recent discovery was about the number 65.This number connected us to the Pilgrim’s voyage onthe Mayflower. The voyage took 65 days. If you countthe letters in Alixx, Emilee, Lara, Hailey, Mackenzie,Kelly, Diane, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Sophia and use theword,” count”, it totals 65!

First and Second Grade Update

We have been working on an exciting writing and technology project over the past couple of months! We have discovered anew way to use Pixie...to help us write literature responses. Welearned that a literature response is something you write about a book you read and it answers a question about the book.Our first response was to the book, Ghost Wings by BarbaraJoose. This is a beautiful book about a girl’s relationship with her grandmother. We answered these questions: “What specialthings do the girl and her grandmother enjoy doing together?Who is a special person in your life and what do you enjoy doing with that person?”Our next response was to the book, Franklin’s Halloween by Paulette Bourgeois. This delightful book is about aturtle named Franklin and his Halloween adventures. For this response, we answered the questions, “WhatHalloween traditions do Franklin and his friends celebrate? What is a holiday you celebrate and what traditions doyou enjoy on that holiday?”At Friday Morning Meeting, we also presented a literature response to the Magic Tree House book, Thanksgiving onThursday by Mary Pope Osborne. Look for first and second grade Pixie slides in this newsletter!

The Classes

Where in the World isBridgewater, Vermont?

Mrs. Grinold’s Third and Fourth GradeClass News

The third and fourth grade class have beenstudying physical geography. The third gradestudents have created brochures that show the physical geography, natural resources, andclimate of a community in the United States.Then they wrote a paragraph to persuade a personto visit the community. This culminated with ashort presentation to the class. Next, the childrencreated relief maps out of homemade “play do”to show the physical geography of Bridgewater.The fourth grade group has beeninvestigating two geographic landformsand water bodies in the U.S. and another part of the world. They have been gathering facts about each place and will construct a relief map to show the geographicfeatures of the landform or bodyof water. The landforms include:the coastline of Oregon andIceland (Ethan), The Mississippiand Nile Rivers (Jacob), TheRocky and HimalayanMountains (Daniel), the GreatLakes and Lake Victoria(Emma). The students will writea short report about their two locations to display with the maps in thehallway. It has been interesting to compare two very diverse regions of the world!

Fifth Grade

Starbase Experiences

The fifth grade class has recently finished their five days at Starbase. It was aspecial opportunity for the students to explore science in a differentenvironment. Hear is what they had to say:“Starbase was a fun, exciting and heart pounding adventure for me.” ChickenFarmer (Ezra Astbury)“Fun and exciting!” Autumn Leaf (McKayla Potwin)“Teamwork, excitement and control.” Flame (Dune Mayberger)

“Mrs. Grinold, I’m not finished yet!” Jed, Matt, and Zac consider the physical features of Bridgewater. Emma contemplates Lake Victoria in Afric

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