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Thursday, October 12
Deadline for Scholastic Book Orders
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Friday, October 13
Hike for Hunger
Roadrunner Day/12:00 Dismissal
Sunday, October 22 4:00-5:30PM
Sharon Academy Fall Information Session
Thursday, October 26
Picture Day
Friday, October 27
Roadrunner Day/12:00 Dismissal
November 6-8
Student-Led Conferences
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Kindergarten
Ms. Kicza
Last week we developed classroom rules --from brainstorming many rules, to sorting them by similar ones, to ending up with four kid-worded rules all agreed on for our classroom. We’ve been reading and discussing many books connected with our social studies learning about school, rules, and becoming a community.
Ms Katie, our Spanish teacher, visited one afternoon to teach the class about Hispanic Heritage Month and butterflies migrating as a symbol for humans migrating. They found Mexico on a map, said Central American country names in Spanish, and heard the book Dreamers, by Yuyi Morales. The children enjoyed the lesson with finding butterflies in the book’s illustrations, saying words in Spanish, and connecting with their own lives and experiences with moving or traveling. They are doing projects in art classes to connect with this learning as well. Graciás to Ms. Katie and Ms. Diana for this cool project!
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First Grade
Ms. Fisk
This week we read The Little Red Pen and talked about the habits of character that were used throughout the story. We learned that tools make work easier, but so do perseverance, initiative, and collaboration. Now we have begun the planning stages of making our Magnificent things! Soon we will collect the supplies. During math, we have been practicing counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
If you would like to participate in the Hike for Hunger please let myself or Eleni know.
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Second Grade
Ms. Giampietro
This week in outdoor education, we learned about spiders. We explored different kinds in the field and even caught some! We learned new math games and used number racks to practice our addition and subtraction within twenty.
Second graders are also learning about different kinds of schools and why they are important by closely reading The Dot and The Invisible Boy.
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3/4 ELA & Social Studies
Ms. Denney
Third graders read Rain School by James Rumford and worked in groups to summarize the story and determine the message of the text. After rereading the text we uncovered details that support the theme: when we work to overcome learning challenges, we can learn new things.
Fourth graders have continued to read Love That Dog and have begun to analyze the poems mentioned in the text. "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost are two of the poems we have read. Students sketched what they visualized after reading and listening to each poem. We then used what we noticed about the poems to discuss the structure, rhyme, imagery, and repetition the poets used.
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Middle School Science & STEM
Ms. Tremblay
Seventh and 8th grade students debate what has energy and how to build an efficient energy system. They can change the energy source and how much is put into the system. Then, students are able to analyze their design in minutes and offer a redesign to their peers.
These students are working to harness human energy to recharge small devices for a rescue team during a natural disaster like floods or earthquakes where the power may not be available for long periods of time.
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Middle School Humanities
Mr. Breen
In Humanities, we started some of our first spelling lessons: getting into what, exactly, a phoneme is and working to break down words into these units. The 7/8 is focusing on pre-historic humans, so we've been spending time one what we know, and how we know about them. Meanwhile, the 5/6 is just starting on the Athenian roots of democracy after another unit designing their own countries.
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Middle School ELA Literature
Ms. Simone
What a great first week I've had in the Middle School ELA classroom! We are continuing to read Dress Coded, but took a pause this week to read a recent news article about a real-life example of dress coding in school, and engaged in some spirited group discussion. Next, we will apply vocabulary from the article to Dress Coded.
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Visual & Performing Arts
Diana
Leatherworking: The leatherworking club starts this Wednesday, October 11th at 3:00 in the Art Room. Enrollment is full at this time! Families will receive detailed information about the workshop series prior to Wednesday's start.
Art poster contest: The Lion's Club is sponsoring the International Peace Poster contest at Newton School this year! Students who have chosen to participate are working on individual posters with the theme "Dare to Dream" that will be displayed at Coburn's for voting near the end of the month. One winner will be selected for regional championships and may go onto a national and international competition. We will share an update when voting has opened!
Art Class: Students have been exploring Op Art (Optical Illusion) this week through the works of Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley. More to come!
Theater and Performing Arts: Shout out to the third graders on their play development! Students are developing characters, costumes, playbills, and eventually, brief plays to perform (for those who wish to do so). Diana is amazed by their creativity and dedication to this project!
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PE
Mr. Landon
The students have done a fantastic job with FitnessGram testing and will conclude their fall testing next week. We will continue to work on teamwork, collaboration, and our competitive spirit. This is a photo of our Kindergarten class playing "Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Cones" and having a great time!
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