Please remember to fill out your PTA membership forms and return them to school. We would love to increase our numbers this year! |
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Mondays: Dungeons & Dragons (4th-8th grade)with Simone Pyle
Tuesdays: Crafty and Creative Kids with Leslie Berger
Wednesdays: Nature Club with Jennie Friedman
Thursdays: Tabletop Games with Simone Pyle
Fridays: Animal Universe with Leslie Berger
This Friday, Sept. 17 is a half day. One Planet will be available from 12 - 3pm. If you would like your child to attend, please send me an email at least 24 hours in advance.
Drop-in Information:
For regular school days: We will continue to accept drop-ins this year. If you'd like your child to be a drop-in, send me an email. Note: drop-ins will be first come, first served and will depend on our staffing and number of students already signed up. Don't plan on sending your child as a drop-in until you have received a confirmation email from me. Rate = $10/day ($6/day for f/r lunch)
For 1/2 days: I will need at least 24 hour notice for a student to be a drop-in on a half day. Again, don't plan to send your child until you've received email confirmation. Our hours for half days are 12 - 3pm. Rate = $10/day ($6/day for f/r lunch)
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Welcome back Newton Families! Hope you are all well.
Firstly, I wanted to notify you that there is a nut-free table in the cafeteria this year. Your child (K-4) is able to eat there if they are packed a nut-free lunch or are getting the lunches here. All products allowed there will be either home-made nut-free, or from a factory that does NOT read: "packaged/made in a facility that produces nut products." Additionally, you are most welcome to pack your student with a lunch that does contain nuts or nut products, but they will not be able to be seated at the nut-free table. Thank you for understanding.
Also new this year is the vaccination statuses of older students. I am hopeful that, if your student has been vaccinated, that you would let me know. It is not mandated, however, it is helpful to know the number of vaccinated individuals, if at all possible.
Illnesses this year are very important for us to track immediately and rapidly. In saying this, it is very helpful to include all people who need to know in communicating the illness. I would suggest, for best practice and results, to include Eleni, the teacher of your student, and myself, Kerri Rainville, on any email reports of an illness. I appreciate this very much.
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The classroom was aflutter with butterflies this week. We had several emerge from chrysalises on different days, so the children could observe them up close before letting them go. We also learned about their life cycle with fiction and nonfiction books, a video, and acting out a song and poem. They practiced cutting and gluing and coloring while putting together a paper life cycle picture at the end of the week. |
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K-2 hold a Community Sing to prepare for singing to the seniors outside the windows of Barrett Hall. |
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First Grade
Mrs. Robinson
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We have started off another great year with many activities, writing Hopes and Dreams, and establishing some rules!
We read some fun books this first two partial weeks back, including School’s First Day of School and First Day Critter Jitters. Looks like everybody’s nervous on the first day of school!
As part of our getting to know each other, we read It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr. For sharing each day we shared our favorite books, food, and animals.
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We have had a great first few days
of 2nd grade! We have been busy
focusing on building our classroom
community and creating our hopes
and dreams for the school year. We
have also been exploring math
materials and our classroom library!
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Third graders came back together with smiles and laughter. They remembered so much from last school year and have gotten off to a great start! We welcomed Sammy back from VLA, and he has been enjoying reconnecting with his friends.
In math we have been working on our addition and subtraction strategies. Students are getting the hang of the math language we use. Also, in reading, students have been busy signing out books, learning phonics, and listening to stories. At recess, the children are playing kickball or four square, as well as interacting with the second graders. For some, this continues to be the highlight of their time in school.
Thank you to all those people who care for these students. As a team, we are helping them grow and learn in a community.
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What a great start to the year we’ve had in 4th grade! We’ve spent a lot of time team-building and learning to work together.
Last week I read the book The Wind in the Willows to the students, and we discussed the imagery, characterizations, and rich language that the author uses to tell the story. We finished that unit by watching the movie that brings the same story to life, and we talked about the differences in storytelling through books and visual media.
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6-8 Humanities, 5 Social Studies
Mr. Breen
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In 6-8 Humanities we've been starting our first essays of the year! The kids are writing opinions essays as part of a refresher on essay structure, and they've got some great opinions.
The 5th graders are putting together Action Plans for Social Studies, identifying needs in their communities and ways they can help to fill those needs. If you have any questions about this work I'll be happy to talk about it at the open house!
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7/8 Math & Science
Mr. Reimanis
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Last week the 7th and 8th graders were learning about pendulums in science class. Their introduction to the scientific method was both in real space using physical objects, and in the virtual idealized world using the PhET site from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
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I could not be more overjoyed to have students back in the library for the first time in 18 months! Younger students are reacquainting themselves with our library routines and expectations, and older students are getting ready to embark on long-term projects.
This year, I'm using Rocketbook Beacons to better share what we're discussing in library class, beaming our whiteboard into a shared Google folder so you can see our class notes.
Also new this year are class message boards where students can leave me book requests or other notes!
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