December | 2017 | Ms. Gray's 1/2 Busy Beavers

Dear Parents & Families,

Thanks for your continued support! We now have a full afternoon snack bin – many thanks!

This week was great! We are up to the 65th day of school. We had a good visit to the Zebedee Wetlands and the Town Forest with Bill Shepard. We did some tree identification and evergreen identification. Thank you to Bill and Nate Hill for joining us! See photos below.

We also had a nice visit with our 5th grade buddies in Mrs. Harrington’s class to make ornaments for the holiday luncheon next week. It was great fun!

Below you will find our weekly newsletter and a letter and form for our Family Traditions Brainstorm. Please check out both. The newsletter has lots of great info – and a new sharing schedule. There is a hard copy of the Family Traditions Brainstorm in your child’s home-school folder. Please the Family Traditions form back as soon as possible.

Have a great weekend!
~Ms. Gray

Dear Parents & Families,

Thanks for your patience while I took a brief hiatus from blogging. With parent-teacher conferences and report cards happening back to back, I really needed to focus my energy at school to these two very important things.

It was great to have 100% participation in our parent-teacher conferences. I was able to meet with all of our families. Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our continued communication and collaboration between school and home. Please make sure if you have any questions or concerns about the report card, feel free to contact me.

The week and two days before Thanksgiving was busy working on Thanksgiving themed activities. Students created “I am Thankful for… Turkeys” and Place Value Turkeys. These two items are hanging in the hall outside our door.

We have been working really hard on our Community Unit and trying to answer the question, “How does our Thetford Community meet our needs?” This week students thought about places and things in our community that fall under the terms: education, laws, play, jobs, transportation, companionship, shelter, and goods. We also took a brief walking tour of the Thetford Hill Green to map the places and things that are in our immediate community.

Next week we will transition to working on letter writing during our Writing Block. Please be on the look out for information coming home about our Family Tradition Writing Project. A note will come home asking for your help in compiling information about a tradition your family takes part in throughout the year. (Examples: trips, gatherings, swimming holes you visit, seasonal celebrations, etc.)

Here are the electronic versions of our newsletters from November and early December:

December 1

November 17

November 10

Here are a couple of photos: