Notes from the Principal

Mrs. Cherrington

Happy Holidays!!!

I would like to thank Mrs. Alice Paglia fordonating the holiday tree this year. Alice and Iput up the tree in record time, and it wasstraight!!!! The children enjoyed addingdecorations and lights so it looks festive. Ihope you will all attend our holiday concertthis Wednesday at 6:30.The National Assessment of EducationalProgress will be given to our students in grade4. Students will participate in oneassessment, either Reading or Mathematics.The assessments take about 90 minutes to complete and will beadministered by NAEP contracted field staff. The testing window isJanuary 26- March 6, 2009. I will let you know as soon as I do the exacttesting date.Our winter recess is from December 22-January 4. School starts againon January 5

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I hope you all have a safe and healthy holiday season and ahappy new year.

December 8, 2008 Issue 3

Please sendcup/waterbottle withyour child. Wcontinue to buplastic cups, but it is gettingexpensive.

Don’tForget!

HOLIDAY CONCERT!W

EDNESDAY

ECEMBER

6:30Students should be in their classrooms by

6:15

Congratulations and Thanks to the staff whovolunteered to make the beautiful Christmaswreaths and the families that purchased them.Over $300 was raised for our community!

Dates toRemember

Dates toRemember:

Dec. 5

- Grades K-2 toPentangle

Dec. 10

- HolidayConcert

6:30 PM

Dec. 15

- Grades 1&2 toBF&M

Dec. 22-31

- HolidayRecess/No Classes

Jan. 1

- No Classes/NewYears Day

Jan. 2

- No Classes

Jan. 9

- Ski/SkateRunners start

Jan. 19

- No Classes In-Service

Jan. 26

- Grades 3 & 4 toPentangle

The Classes

KindergartenMs. Grim

You can hear a lot of clapping inKindergarten. The students are discoveringsyllables in words by clapping and we areclapping many of the words we usethroughout the school day. Another way wehave been learning to listen for syllables is by writing Haiku poems.The first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables and the lastline has 5 syllables. As a class we wrote two poems that reflect howeveryone feels about this month. Clap out the lines when you say the poem outloud. Did we count correctly?DecemberHappy HolidayChristmas Heart Like a Choo-ChooBig Eyes Eyebrows HighSnowSnow Angels SnowmenCold Fingers Wiggle to Get WarmIt is Snowing Out

First/Second GradeMrs. Ashan

The first and second graders have been exercising their imagination in the writing andpublishing of their first narratives. We have been learning about the important partsof a narrative-character, setting, motivation, problem, and solution. Before we set off writing our stories, we wrote a narrative together about a blueberry bush name Juicy.If you thought that was an imaginative main character, you should read the first andsecond graders own narratives! On your way past our hallway display, you will betempted to stop and read about Thoughtful the Shooting Star, Molly the Excavator,Doughnut Head the Zombie, India the Lioness, Thidwick the Moose, Nicky the Four-Wheeler, Mike the Basketball Player, The Number One, Patchy the Pirate, Kelly theBabysitter, Annie the Fairy, Scary the Monster, Dumb Dumb the Dog, and Adam theMoose.

What BVS iscollecting

The following items canbe collected at home anddelivered to Mrs.Robinson in the MainOffice:

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Campbell’s SoupLabels

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Box Tops forEducation

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Silver Tabs fromaluminum cans

And don’t forget to dropoff your 5¢ recyclable

aluminum cans

and

glass bottles

in front of the school.

The Classes

Mrs. G’s Brainstorming Third and FourthGraders

The last month has been a busy one for our class!Fourth grade students have completed the book

Green Mountain Hero

set in Vermont during the RevolutionaryWar. This story is based on the life of the Story familywho faced many challenges in their efforts to settle inVermont. Students have learned how difficult life was inthe 1700s. Settlers had to use whatever resources wereavailable to them to survive the cold Vermont winter.They also learned how the settlers built their log cabins.As a culminating activity, the children are building modellog cabins and creating a slideshow to illustrate “the artsof the settler”.Third Graders have been reading fascinating articles and stories abouturban wildlife. As residents of a small town, it has been very interesting forthe children to learn about life in the city and , surprisingly, the diversity of wildlife that has adapted to living there! All of the students inour class will also be performing a reader’s theater piece titled

The Hidden One

, a Native American ”Cinderella” legend. Wewill present at morning meeting on December 19.

Happenings in the 5

GradeBy Ava and Kaelee

We have a lot going on in the fifth grade class. We made gingerbreadhouses with our buddies. It was very fun and a delicious project. Wealso got a new student! His name is Joseph. We welcomed himenthusiastically and we are happy that he is here. We hope everybodyin the school to gets to know Joseph.