by Kate Lynett and Kathleen McIntyre

​Order in the court, order in the court! This week in reading, we’ve been learning all about trials and the process of law and order in the courtroom. Students read The Trial of Cardigan Jones and had to determine whether our famous moose, Cardigan Jones, was guilty or innocent. The students had a great time discussing due process and the fairness of a trial. Feel free to ask your child about Cardigan’s verdict!

by Kate Lynett and Kathleen McIntyre

​During Math X, third graders explore mathematics through interactive games and centers. They are split into groups of four. Students adventure through various games and activities based on the skills and strategies taught during the current unit. Most recently, we have been working with place value, addition, subtraction, and word problems. We’re excited to be marching our way through math. 

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by Alyssa Charles

by Judy Jurnack and Katie Holmberg

Our Journeys Focus Wall Poster Lesson 3

Curious George is the featured text this week. In our Guided Reading groups we'll also be reading about Curious George in leveled readers. After all these years that little monkey is still a first grade favorite!

Second grade partners with younger students in our community to share our love of reading and friendship. The benefits second graders receive in return are numerous: they learn to share their time, be patient, be a positive role model, and care for others needs like tying shoes. 

by Judy Jurnack and Katie Holmberg

1st grade had a great time this week learning about apples.  They learned about Johnny Appleseed, wrote an apple poem, and had an apple tasting. They used their math skills by making tally graphs and graphing the tasting results.  Check out the graph to see which color apple most 1st graders prefer.

Journalists: Chloe and Mara

This year, Parents Night is on September 29, 2016. On this night, the parents will get to look at their child’s classroom. The 4th grade has prepared letters written on their new iPads. They’re so excited to present them to their parents. The letters include things that the 4th graders enjoy about 4th grade, their goals for the year, and things that they want their parents to notice in the classroom. Every grade has prepared something for the special night. “I think it will be great for the parents to learn about how their kids are doing in school,” said Lillian. “Parents Night is going to be amazing this year because of all the hard work that the students did,” says Audrey. Parents Night is going to be truly amazing.

by Sarah Duddy

On Monday at our Lower School Assembly, Mrs. Marth and Mrs. Kulpit spoke to the children about being bucket fillers rather than bucket dippers. Mrs. Kulpit read the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. Each one of us carries around an empty bucket. Acts of kindness fill our buckets and when we are kind to others, we fill their buckets as well as our own. When you are not thoughtful in your actions towards others, you are a bucket dipper. Dipping into someone else bucket makes them feel badly and you feel badly as well. 

We are going to focus on being bucket fillers this year. Mrs. Marth explained to students that each lower school homeroom will now have its own orange bucket. When someone feels that a friend has filled their bucket or a teacher spots a student filling someone's bucket they will take a minute to jot down the example on a piece of paper and drop the paper into the bucket. Each week at our assembly we will fill a big bucket and pick out several examples so that we may recognize our bucket fillers and learn from their examples. 

​Have you filled a bucket today? 

by Katie Holmberg and Judy Jurnack

First graders were busy last week learning about tally marks and data collection.  They read tally graphs and collected data using their own individual graphs.  They played tally mark concentration and Dice Roll- Tally.  They even played Rock, Paper, Scissors while keeping tallies of the winner.  First Grade Math is so fun!

by Alyssa Charles