June 18, 2025

Well this concludes another fun and exciting year.  It is hard to believe this is the end of my 28th year but at the same time it seems like it has flown by. I hope your children had as much fun as I did this year. 

Today your child will come home with a few things.

1.  They will have their non-fiction book that they created independently. This involved, researching an animal, taking notes, and then turning it into chapters and finally a book. They were quite proud of their work with this.

2.  During the past week, the students have been working on a 1st or 2nd grade memory book. This was a fun way to finish off they year while still practicing writing and reflecting on the year gone by.

3.  Each student will have some tools for them to keep to write, draw, and color over the summer. It would be great to ask your child to write a paragraph after each summer week (about the fun they are having).  If they want to mail me their writings to me, my address is 103 Fox Hollow, Duxbury, VT 05676.

That is all for now.  I hope you all have a great summer. It has been a pleasure working with your children this year. It is the absolute best to watch them grow and learn. Thank you all for everything.

Peace,

Mr. Young

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. It was definitely nice to get some sunshine on a weekend! I am sorry I didn't get this post out on Friday, it just slipped my mind. This week's post will have some bulleted bits of information and pictures. 

• Thank you to those who volunteered to bring in items for our last day of school breakfast. The list filled up very quickly. We are all set on items and truly do appreciate the generosity.  

• All of the book orders have been delivered and your child should have brought them home last week.

• Parent volunteers will end on Friday of this week. Keely, we will not need a volunteer on Friday afternoon. I want to thank all of you for donating your time this year. It is a huge help and I appreciate your dedication to helping kids achieve success. 

• On Tuesday, June 17th, Anna Church will be coming in to talk about the summer programming at the Joslin Memorial Library.
• Anna does a wonderful job with this and it is a great resource to keep up summer reading. 

This past week we visited the 3rd & 4th grade classroom to explore their arcade games that they created. This was inspired by a child named Caine and the arcade he built at his father's parts shop in California. If you would like, check out this video that gives context to the project that the students took on. 

In first grade math, the students finished up their glider plane project and spent Friday measuring lengths of flights. We will spend this week looking at graphing and interpreting data. 

The students have been working on their animal books and are doing an amazing job with them. They will all edit their books this week. Their final version will go home on the last day of school. 

That is all for now.  I hope you all have a great week.

Peace,

Tommy