Newsletter No. 18

Sharon Elementary School

Issue 18

January 19, 2024

Sharon Elementary School News

Mark Your Calendars!

Friday 1/26- Early Release, 12 PM

Saturday 1/27- Sharon Pond Hockey Tournament (See Below)

Wednesday 2/7- PTO Meeting, 6 PM at SES

Friday 2/9- Early Release, 12 PM

Monday 2/19 to Friday 2/23- Winter Break, No School

Tuesday, 2/20- School Board Meeting, 5:30 PM. See Website for Agenda.

Links to Helpful Information

SES Website

Lunch Menu

Building Expansion

Letter from Principal Haley

Caregivers and Community Members,

It looks like winter has finally arrived! With our ground covered with snow and cold temperatures, it is important that your children come to school prepared and ready to go outside. As a general rule, we go outside if the temperature is 10 degrees or higher.

I want to formally welcome Katie Curri to our Sharon Elementary team! Katie will join us for the remainder of the year as our Performing Arts educator. I also want to thank Stephanie Jarrait for filling in as our Performing Arts educator for the first half of the school year. I look forward to working with Mrs Curri. For the remainder of the year, Ms. Steph will be filling in for folks who are out.

Our students have been knee-deep in the world of assessments. Students in grades K-6 have been taking the Track My Progress (TMP) Assessment. TMP assesses students in literacy and mathematics. Students in K-2 are also taking the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) assessment. These assessments give us a snapshot of how students are performing and how we can better support their growth.

There has been quite a bit of sickness spreading around. If you have any questions about when to send, or not send your child into school, please reach out to Nurse Katie at kstoeckle@wrvsu.org.

For those of you who enjoy ice hockey, be on the lookout for the upcoming Sharon Pond Hockey Tournament on Saturday, January 27th. Steve Gagliardone is organizing this year’s event. This tournament is for all ability levels. If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out to me and I can help guide you.

I will continue to be available for discussion at the Sharon Trading Post (Maplefields) every other Tuesday morning from 8 am until 9 am. I have been having great conversations with folks since I started this and look forward to more. I will be there next week, January 23rd.

Respectfully,

Keenan Haley

Principal

Sharon Elementary

SES Highlights

Ski Runners and 4/5/6 Celebrating Outdoors

Many of our students are participating in the Ski Runners program at Saskedena Six. Students are getting ski/snowboard lessons and enjoying our beautiful Green Mountains! Thank you to all of the volunteers for your support in making this happen.

Last week, while some students were at Saskedena Six, the remaining 4th, 5th and 6th graders had their own winter fun. Students were tasked with making a snow sculpture and amazing creativity and fun ensued! We were also regaled with stories told by THE story teller, Mr. Evans by the fire, sipping hot cocoa. It was a wonderful way for all students to enjoy this time of year in Vermont. This week we went hiking on the Swett Land in Sharon. It was a LOVELY, bluebird skies kind of day for a hike. It was very cold but we enjoyed cookies made by Mr. Evans and we were joined by Mr. Paul.

Compost Crew

We would like to thank Cat Buxton for all of her support creating a composting system for SES!

From the vital communities website:

Sharon (VT) Elementary School – Super Compost supplies: Sharon Elementary School (SES) has been composting most of our food waste for three years using an undersized but well-managed compost bin system. We are so excited that SES is the first of 24 Upper Valley schools participating in the Super Compost Project to receive their new structure and right-sized three-bin hot composting system, paid for by a Vermont Farm to School Vision Grant. The grant award covered the capital costs for the ground surface, materials, and labor to build the 16 x 20′ pavilion, and bins, which also serve as an outdoor classroom. Proper tools will enable the students to collect data on the compost activity that will support their classroom studies in math, science, and literacy – year-round! The supplies needed for each school include barrels and buckets, shovels and forks, scale, thermometers, compost covers, wheelbarrows, wagon and sled, iPad, and a whiteboard. This grant will help to subsidize those priority tools costs.

Looking Forward

The 6th Annual Sharon Pond Hockey Tourney is back!

Look for the Passport to Winter Fun in Backpacks!