December 7th

Synergy News

Friday December 7, 2012

NEWS

Report cards are coming home today!  Please sign and then return the envelope to school.  If you have any questions or concerns that come up from the report cards please let me know!

ABS has filled the bee hive with warm buzzies again.  Our class has definitely contributed as we filled our honey jar three times just this week.  Next Friday we will have our school wide celebration.  We will have a 50 minute musical zoo.  This is a musical experience put on by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.  “With the help of a sterilizing agent and parent volunteers ("handlers"), every student in attendance is given the opportunity to hammer away on the snare drum and other percussion, exercise their lungs with three brass instruments, pluck the strings of a harp, toot the flute, and flex their muscles on the violin and cello.” Our class will need two parent volunteers from 11:00-12:00.  If you are available please let me know.  

Our visit to the Scholastic Book Fair at WCS was a great success.  Many of the students got some fantastic books.  I was very impressed at the books chosen as so often the students get sucked into the games, posters and erasers and less than spectacular books.  Thank you to the parents who volunteered and to all the parents who purchased books!

Paper airplanes have taken over morning explore time.  The students checked out all the paper airplane books from the library and have been testing out different types of airplanes.  The classic dart seems to be the airplane that flies the best.  The students work together to make them and then create a runway that has a clear take-off and landing zone for the airplanes to be tested.  Just this morning one student got a plane to fly from our classroom down the hall in well into Ms. Stein’s class.

Beginning on Tuesday next week the students will have a daily math assignment during explore time.  They will have 5-7 math problems to complete.  Each day will be slightly different with topics including addition, subtraction, interpreting graphs, telling time, counting coins, etc…

ASK ABOUT

• Paper Airplanes        
• Their day as an illustrator
• El Perrito Skipito

Kids Quotes

·         “I’m going to go swimming on the sun this weekend!”

·         “There WAS a mouse living under our oven.”

·         “At my Grandma’s church… or maybe BINGO they bring stuff for charity”

Zach is the Listener of the Week  AGAIN!!!