We will be going to the garden on Friday. Please have for children dress appropriately and apply sunscreen before school. Our focus will be to clean and prep our garden bed for planting.
Have a great day.
Tom
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
Today we dove deeper into our study of states of matter. There was a lot of excitement in the air with the anticipated use of a beaker and hot plate. Today's focus was observing a solid transform to a liquid. The students wrote a hypothesis about the time it would take to transform from a solid to a liquid and at what temperature. Each student recorded their observations on a table. We recorded in increments of 2 minutes for 8 minutes.
We will be going to the garden on Friday. Please have for children dress appropriately and apply sunscreen before school. Our focus will be to clean and prep our garden bed for planting.
Have a great day.
Tom
We will be going to the garden on Friday. Please have for children dress appropriately and apply sunscreen before school. Our focus will be to clean and prep our garden bed for planting.
Have a great day.
Tom
May 14, 2012
Today, Highfields Composting came to our class to introduce a new composting program. Through a generous grant from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Waitsfield Elementary School is able to participate in a compost collection program, cost-free, for the next year. Most of our scraps are collected through our school lunch program, but classrooms will also be able to reduce trash through composting. Thanks to Sally Utter for really starting the composting work here at W.E.S. several years ago; this is a great way to bring it forward without much work for us.
We did not have reading groups today (we met with Highfields during our reading block), so some of the students chose a book of choice to put in his/her reading bag. He/She may need you to read their choice to them.
*Please don't forget to send in the $5 for the Shelburne Museum trip and $4 for the Ben & Jerry trip. Below are the kids that have already paid and the list of parents chaperoning.
Shelburne Museum ($5 for each student and chaperone):
Chaperones; Michelle Lepp, Jeff Kahn, Elizabeth Cadwell, and Erin Liston.
Students That Have Paid: Beckett, Rachel, Lillian, Amy, and Emma
Ben & Jerrys ($4 for the cost of the ice cream cone):
Chaperones;
Students That Have Paid: Beckett, Jordan, Rachel, Emery, Lillian, Jordan, Amy, and Emma
Have a great week.
Peace,
Tom
We did not have reading groups today (we met with Highfields during our reading block), so some of the students chose a book of choice to put in his/her reading bag. He/She may need you to read their choice to them.
*Please don't forget to send in the $5 for the Shelburne Museum trip and $4 for the Ben & Jerry trip. Below are the kids that have already paid and the list of parents chaperoning.
Shelburne Museum ($5 for each student and chaperone):
Chaperones; Michelle Lepp, Jeff Kahn, Elizabeth Cadwell, and Erin Liston.
Students That Have Paid: Beckett, Rachel, Lillian, Amy, and Emma
Ben & Jerrys ($4 for the cost of the ice cream cone):
Chaperones;
Students That Have Paid: Beckett, Jordan, Rachel, Emery, Lillian, Jordan, Amy, and Emma
Have a great week.
Peace,
Tom
May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012
Good Morning. Today we read from two books, one was Ben's Dream and the other was Just a Dream. Both book were written by Chris Van Allsburg. After reading each story the students had to make a list of things they learned from the book (including characters, setting, plot, etc.). They will use this information to write a compare and contrast writing next week.
*Please don't forget to send in money for our field trips and let me know if you are interested in chaperoning.
*We will be presenting at the May 25th assembly.
Have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tom
*Please don't forget to send in money for our field trips and let me know if you are interested in chaperoning.
*We will be presenting at the May 25th assembly.
Have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tom
May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012
Good Afternoon! Today we had stations, french and music. It was a very quick day. Please don't forget to send in the field trip money and/or let me know if you would like to participate in the Shelburne Museum trip. Yesterday, we chose our roles for the June play.
Have a great day.
Tom
Have a great day.
Tom
May 7, 2012
May 7, 2012
Good Afternoon,
I hope everyone read the blog from Friday. It has a few important dates to remember on it. There is one more field trip to make note of. Mr. Hubbard and I are planning a trip to the Shelburne Museum on Monday, June 18th. We will leave the school around 8:00 and return around 2:00. The cost is $5 a child. We are also hoping top get 5-6 parent chaperones from each room. You could ride the bus up and back (to save on gas). The cost for each parent is also $5 per person. If you are interested in going, please let me know. I would like the money turned in before the end of May.
The reason we are going to this destination is to connect to our local history theme. We would like the kids to journal while they are on the trip. They will focus on how the buildings and houses have changed and/or stayed the same when compared to buildings of today.
Peace,
Tom
I hope everyone read the blog from Friday. It has a few important dates to remember on it. There is one more field trip to make note of. Mr. Hubbard and I are planning a trip to the Shelburne Museum on Monday, June 18th. We will leave the school around 8:00 and return around 2:00. The cost is $5 a child. We are also hoping top get 5-6 parent chaperones from each room. You could ride the bus up and back (to save on gas). The cost for each parent is also $5 per person. If you are interested in going, please let me know. I would like the money turned in before the end of May.
The reason we are going to this destination is to connect to our local history theme. We would like the kids to journal while they are on the trip. They will focus on how the buildings and houses have changed and/or stayed the same when compared to buildings of today.
Peace,
Tom
May 4, 2012
Friday, May 4th
Today the students wrote int heir Weekly News Journals. Please look at them over the weekend and respond. There should be a lot of entries about our plants. I have scheduled two dates that I need you to mark on your calendars and/or respond to.
June 12: We will be meeting our Pen Pals in Waterbury and going to Ben and Jerry's for a tour and ice cream cone. The cost of the tour is free but we will need $4 per child for ice cream. If this is a difficulty for anyone, please let Kaiya or I know. Parents are welcome to join us but will have to pay $2 for the tour and will have to drive themselves (we are using our bus to pick up the Waterbury kids).
June 14: We will be having an evening event for our class. It will be a variety of whole group and individual student presentations. It will be held at the school and start at 6:00.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tom
June 12: We will be meeting our Pen Pals in Waterbury and going to Ben and Jerry's for a tour and ice cream cone. The cost of the tour is free but we will need $4 per child for ice cream. If this is a difficulty for anyone, please let Kaiya or I know. Parents are welcome to join us but will have to pay $2 for the tour and will have to drive themselves (we are using our bus to pick up the Waterbury kids).
June 14: We will be having an evening event for our class. It will be a variety of whole group and individual student presentations. It will be held at the school and start at 6:00.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tom
May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012
Good Morning,
Over the last two days, the students have been recording their plant observations in their science journals. We are reviewing how scientists use diagrams and labels to describe their observations. Yesterday, we also handed out some of the roles for our May assembly. I am hoping the assembly will be two weeks from Friday. This assembly will document how the specialist teachers and I collaborated on the idea of local history (from our Social Studies curriculum). The assembly will include a narration of our school time-line, a song about Waitsfield School (written by our class), and a French dance.
I know May can be absolutely crazy. We have something almost every night of the week for the month, including having to go to Plattsburgh for a soccer game this weekend. If homework is an issue, take the night off. Just write on your child's reading log that you needed an evening free of the task.
I hope you have a great day,
Peace,
Tom
Over the last two days, the students have been recording their plant observations in their science journals. We are reviewing how scientists use diagrams and labels to describe their observations. Yesterday, we also handed out some of the roles for our May assembly. I am hoping the assembly will be two weeks from Friday. This assembly will document how the specialist teachers and I collaborated on the idea of local history (from our Social Studies curriculum). The assembly will include a narration of our school time-line, a song about Waitsfield School (written by our class), and a French dance.
I know May can be absolutely crazy. We have something almost every night of the week for the month, including having to go to Plattsburgh for a soccer game this weekend. If homework is an issue, take the night off. Just write on your child's reading log that you needed an evening free of the task.
I hope you have a great day,
Peace,
Tom
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)