Week 27

Elmore students performed at their Annual Concert at the Elmore Town Hall on Thursday evening.

This was our first full week back in the classroom since before our winter break!  We had a busy week getting ready for our annual concert, and we resumed our ECO sessions on Thursday. It turned out to be one of our colder days of the year, which caused us to adjust our plans and stay inside for ECO.  We ended the week on Friday with Chinese lessons with Dan Peterson!

During writers workshop students have been working hard on their Animal (nature names) presentations.  Each student has chosen how they want to present their research.  Options include: a book, a Google slide show, a poster, a presentation board, a brochure or a lap book.  Every student (even the youngest) have chosen to type their information, and I've been completely impressed by their dedication and perseverance.  Next week the children will begin creating a project to go with their presentation.  We will working on these during Art class.

During Math first graders began their next unit which is all about number concepts to 99.  This week they represented and solved addition and subtraction involving ten's (50 - 30 = ___ ,   40 + 30 = ____).

Second graders are using number lines to solve addition and subtraction problems within 100, and third graders are matching representations (equations and diagrams) to situations involving two operations (addition and multiplication for example).

During ECO on Thursday, students had fun playing a predator and prey game.  Then we dove into our focus lesson about maps.  Students worked in a small group to draw a map of the classroom in which they marked a hidden treasure.  Then they swapped maps with another group who had to locate the hidden treasure by using the map.  Final we ended with choice time where some students made pine bark boats, others created pop up "book" characters, while others made tree cookie necklaces.  A fine time was had by all despite staying indoors.  fingers crossed for better weather next week!  Please let me know if you would like to volunteers to join us next week.

Bravo to the children for their outstanding performance at our concert on Thursday Night!  Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and special guests for joining us.  Everyone enjoyed the delicious goodies you all shared!  Thank you for all your support!  

Thank you to Jess Boutin for the yummy lunch on Friday.  We all enjoyed pizza and fresh strawberries!  We had cookies for dessert (left over from the Concert)!

Here is the link to the Lunch Menu.  Please email your school lunch orders by 6:00 pm on Sunday.

Brittney Sanville is on the schedule for Hot Lunch next Friday (March 29th): Shepards Pie, Rolls, and a special dessert!

 

Other Announcements 

• Banking is Monday - remember your deposits
• Library is Monday - remember your books
• PE - Thursday next week -Students need their sneakers!
• Thursday, March 28th - ECO
• 3rd Grade VTCAP testing - April 2, April 3, April 9, and April 10 - please avoid scheduling appointments on these mornings.
• Monday, April 8th - Early Dismissal - Full Solar Eclipse 
• Wednesday, April 17th - 2nd annual Grandparents Breakfast @ 9:00 at the Elmore Town Hall
• April Break - April 22-26
• May 14th - Field trip to Shelburne Farms

As always, thank you for your continued support!