Literacy Week at TES was a great week! Our class dressed up as Dr. Seuss characters. Find the photos below from our class’s happenings.
It was great to have a real author join us. Thank you, Katherine Roy for sharing your work with us.
Literacy Week at TES was a great week! Our class dressed up as Dr. Seuss characters. Find the photos below from our class’s happenings.
It was great to have a real author join us. Thank you, Katherine Roy for sharing your work with us.
Students had a terrific time exploring the Montshire Museum and taking part in a wonderful program with one of the Montshire educators thinking about reflection using mirrors. This wrapped up our light and sound unit for the months of February and March.
See the photos below for some great shots of students in action!
Dear Parents & Families,
We are now at 118 days of school. It’s wonderful the amount of progress we are seeing in all areas.
We are excited to wrap up the Light & Sound Wave Unit. We will finish our unit and then head to the Montshire Museum on Tuesday, March 26th as our culminating activity, along with a in-class assessment.
We also have completed out Project-Based Learning project: Design Our Dream Playground. It is amazing how hard all the students work and how they collaborated together to make the best final products as possible. See the pictures below for progress pictures along the way.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
~Ms. Gray
Dear Parents & Families,
We had a great 100th day of school on Friday, February 9th! It was an excellent day in our classroom.
~Ms. Gray
Happy New Year – and almost to the 100th day of school at TES! Getting around to post to the blog has been harder than I thought at the beginning of the year, my apologies. I’m going to try to continue to post bi-weekly. Thank you for those of you who check it out!
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Poetry is what we have been studying in reading and writing this month. Students are working hard to recognize the differences between poetry and prose. Poetry is a challenge for us as we have been working hard to write sentences. Getting out of that structure has pushed many of us to really think hard and grapple with challenge.
So far in our unit we have worked on the following types/devices of poetry:
Here are some examples of poetry from our students this month….
Sun
Sun, hot, hot, hot
It’s burning me a lot.
It even burns my metal pot
hot, hot, hot
It’s burning me a lot.
–Samson Charron
Pokemon
Pokemon is a game
battle
battle
battle
battle everyone you know!
–Jay Hill
Love
Loving
Only you
Valentine
Forever
–Orayna Pleake
A ridiculous rooster runs up to Ruth, who was riding a raven.
–Benjamin Barton
These examples are great! Thanks for taking a look. If you’re interested in exploring poetry more at home feel free to check out this great site: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.aspx
~Ms. Gray
Dear Parents & Families,
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:
Here are a couple of photos:
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Ms. Gray
Dear Parents & Families,
My apologies for not getting to a blog post last week. I will try to ensure that I update weekly going forward. Below you will find highlights of the past two weeks. We had a great Hike for Hunger! It was a great accomplishment to complete our Farm Stand. All of our hard work and persistence with that really paid off.
This week we moved toward wrapping up our units in science and writing. Students shared their narratives with the whole class as part of our Author’s Celebration.
We also worked on finishing our final project for our Pollinator Unit. Students did a great job planning and now building their pollinators and using the knowledge that we learned to make the best pollinators possible.
Next week is another short week, as we have conferences on Friday. Please make sure to let me know if you need a reminder about your conference day and time. Next week we will also begin our work with Nonfiction Writing using the Hand Paragraph Structure.
Highlights from the Last Two Weeks:
Below is a link to our weekly newsletters from last week and this week.
Have a fantastic weekend!
~Ms. Gray
Dear Parents & Families,
Have a great fall weekend!
Sincerely,
Dear Parents & Families,
This week we had a great visit to the Thetford Volunteer Fire Department. Thank you to the TVFD volunteers and specifically to Moriah Whitcomb for the great presentation and fire safety reminders. Please remember to check-in with your family at home to ensure you have a safety plan in place for a meeting place in case of a need of an evacuation of your home. Also, please remember to change your smoke detector batteries! It was a great reminder to me.
We hit 30 days of school this week! We completed our All School Meeting for this school year. Great work to all of us for succeeding at this accomplishment so early in the school year!
Thank you for those families who have decided to join us for our Field Trip to Cedar Circle Farm on Wednesday, October 18th. We plan to depart TES at 10:45 am. Chaperones can join us on the bus or meet us at the farm. Here is the link for information about the trip. If your child will need a bag lunch from the cafeteria for that day please be sure to let me know by Monday, 10/16.
Reminders:
Below you will see some more highlights from our week:
• TVFD Visit and Fire Safety presentation
• Harvested vegetables from our school garden with Cat
• Took apart and processed sunflowers for our Farm Stand products
• Simulated pollination with a fun science experiment using cheese puffs
• Worked really hard for our All School Meeting – especially on our props!
Here is the link to our weekly newsletter: October 13, 2017
If you can, please volunteer to help out at our Farm Stand on Monday, October 23rd – Tuesday, October 24th or Wednesday, October 25th. Here the link to sign up for our Farm Stand week: Farm Stand Sign Up
We are planning to go to the Wetlands on Friday, October 20th (weather permitting!). Please plan to send in rubber boots to have here at school for our Wetlands visits.
Have a great weekend! Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
Ms. Gray