Newsletter and Press
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!!
OCTOBER
was a wonderful month of class work, special art projects and a
great trip to Heritage Plantation. Here's some personal notes from
our teachers as to what's happened and what's coming up in NOVEMBER.
 Kindergarten
- Mrs. Mary Lyons
Pre-reading and reading skills are developing
very nicely.
Math will entail classification, positions and pattern concepts
and the numbers in sequence to 75.
Language will feature the introduction of nouns .
Penmanship will focus on all of the lower case alphabet.
Social Science will continue on the concepts of self and families.
Modular I will continue in Science.
On November 6, David Hobbs, Pilgrim, will visit our classroom.
November 13 a speaker from the Zooquarium will visit the classroom
and bring an animal to learn about. On the 13th, we will also have
a McDonald's lunch in the classroom. November art will feature Mrs.
Garcia visiting the classroom to do art with the class.
Our trip to Heritage Plantation was time, effort and cost well-spent.
Our guide gave us an excellent educational tour into history. The
students were fascinated and learned so much. Their behavior and
uniforms also received many comments from other visitors. We are
already looking forward to January when some members of the Heritage
Plantation staff pay a visit to our classroom.
Thank you PAC and thank you Mrs. Toppin for the ziplock bags! Many
thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Bryant for coming into the classroom, supplying
and doing a beautiful art project with the students. And Thanks
to Ms. Rounds for cutting the Witch Hats patterns for the students
-- a lot of work!
Tip 1. One of our students is highly allergic to NUTS. Please do
NOT send in any baked goods during the year which contain nuts.
Tip 2. Please help your student to know their age, house #, street
& town for SAFETY and report card reasons.
 First
Grade - Mrs. Sue Kenney
Everyone is working hard on their address. Spelling and phonics
find us on short 'u', and then we will review all short vowels.
We are adding and subtracting. Keep on practicing. We are using
pennies, 1c, and nickels, 5c - so get your change out.
Trees are our topic in Science as we watch the leaves change and
fall.
Rules and Laws are being discussed in Social Studies. Wearing
your seatbelt is a LAW.
We are looking forward to Thanksgiving Projects...and our special
visitor this month.
At Heritage Plantation our 1st graders were sad to say good-bye
to our Tour Guide. She told us so many exciting and interesting
myths about each artifact. We truly enjoyed the day!
Thank you to Mr. Van Kleef for coming into our class to do a Halloween
Project. "What an Art Teacher!" The children thoroughly enjoyed
the special activities of decorating festive cakes and making Holiday
Magnets. There is a lot of talent out there -- so don't be shy!
Thank you to Mr. Grandaw (Sam's Dad) for coming in to tell the children
about being a Firefighter. October is Fire Prevention Month and
the 1st graders have gained a lot of knowledge about what to do
if they are in a fire or any emergency. SAFETY IS THE KEY!
2nd Grade - Mrs. Maureen Coffin
During the month of November, the second grade will be discussing
Thanksgiving. We will be concentrating on the theme of 'giving'
and the history that led up to the First Thanksgiving.
Academically, we will continue to study vowel sounds, synonyms,
antonyms, syllables and parts of speech. We will begin to discuss
action verbs and linking verbs.
In science, we are talking about 'forces' and we will soon begin
experiments involving magnets.
We have begun to learn about communities and neighbors in Social
Science, but will continue our discussion of Maps. The children
have been working on labeling a blank map of the United States,
writing the states and their capitals. The second graders are very
busy!
A special thanks to Mrs. Toppin who came into our classroom to
do a fall and Halloween project with the children. They made 'caramel
candy apples' and stenciled wooden pumpkins with Halloween pictures.
These pumpkins were hand carved by the talented hands of Mrs. Toppin!
We enjoyed our activity!
Also, thank you to our mother helpers who devote their time to
our classroom, Mrs. Caston, Mrs. Little and Mrs. Ouimet.
3rd, 4th, 5th Grades - Mrs. Rosario & Mr. Campbell
November is going to be a great month for learning. We are doing
some really terrific activities. Of course, we will be learning
about Thanksgiving but we are also starting some long-term projects
that will take us a month to finish! Please feel free to ask your
children about the quilt and orange pomander projects.
Children are coming along smoothly with their studies including
multiplication, division, reading and social studies. Heritage Plantation
was great! We had so much fun with our tour guide Erik. We all,
of course, loved the carousel but we also enjoyed the informational
aspect of the tour including the whaling exhibit and the antique
cars! The class all made beautiful thank you notes with pictures
of their favorite things at the Heritage Plantation for Erik. We
are all looking forward to next year's trip already!
As you know we are memorizing multiplication tables. Please help
your child by encouraging them to practice every day. Thanks for
all the help with the Halloween parade and party!
SPECIAL NOTES
All classes are learning about Ramadan, which begins November l7th.
On Tuesday, November 6th, David Hobbs, the Pilgrim, will visit
us at 11 am. All children should be in full dress uniform.
We will hold our Nov/Dec monthly Birthday Assembly on November
29th at l:45 in the Kindergarten room. Guest Speaker to be announced.
All children with birthdays in November or December do not need
to wear uniforms that day.
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