Book Fair at Francis Wyman

November 4

I cannot believe it is November! Time seems to be flying by! 

We started off the week with our Halloween parade on Monday. It was fun to see the students in their costumes! I hope you had fun trick-or-treating Monday night. We had fun Monday afternoon with our 4th grade buddies 'reading in the dark.' 

We completed the last of our Halloween projects this week, including a new class book Spooky:Who is This? We will try and guess who made themselves in the different costumes and then that book will be added to the cirulation of class books. We are missing a few books we have not seen in a while. If you have one at home, please send it back to school. Students also practiced and illustrated a few Halloween poems in their poetry notebooks. 

We started a new individual innovation at the book table where students get to write about different things that they like. Students will use their "best guess spelling" to complete these books. We are encouraging them to write the sounds they hear in words. 

October journals went home this week. Again, students use best guess spelling to complete the question in their journals. It is fun to save them all school year and see the improvement throughout the year!

We started our unit on American symbols by making our American flag on Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed the blog post with the students saying the Pledge of Allegiance in front of their handwork. 

In math we have been working on topic 3, numbers to 10. Students continue to work hard counting and recording numbers. I encourage you to practice number formation at home! They have been working hard in school and it has been paying off! We are also continuing to do math choice-board during math. These centers are based off what the different unit are about. We have seen a lot of nice team work and examples of friendship during this time of the day. 

A few reminders:

Tuesday, November 8 there will be No School for election day.

Thursday, November 10- No School Students

Friday, November 11- Veteran's Day, No School

5th grade student council is conducting a can goods fundraiser and a toothbrush fundraiser to help the Burlington food pantry. They are collecting in front of the office if you would like to send something in. 

Conference schedules will go out sometime next week. Please review your time. If you need to reschedule please let me know. I am also available during the week before school and for a bit after school. A phone conference is always an option too if you cannot make it in to Francis Wyman. 

Please practice with your child putting on his/her jacket, scarves, mittens etc. It is super helpful if they know how to turn sleeves inside out, zipper, and put on their jackets when it gets time for recess and dismissal. 

Have a great weekend!!

American Symbols unit

We started our unit on American Symbols!

We worked together on Tuesday to create the American flag with thirteen stripes and fifty stars. The students even said the Pledge of Allegiance while they took their picture in front of their work!

Halloween!

We had lots of fun celebrating Halloween in school today! It was fun to walk in the Halloween parade and then see some other friends dressed up in their costumes!

After lunch we did a special activity with our 4th grade buddies. We 'read in the dark' a special Halloween book and then some other books. We had fun using our flashlights to read in the dark!

Have a fun and safe Halloween tonight for all of you who will go trick-or-treating!

October 28

Wow! I cannot believe November is next week!

As you can tell from all the work coming home we have been very busy! We have been working on different rhyming activities that I am sure you have seen come home such as Did You Ever See? Students have brought home their Mom and I went to the Zoo books that they have worked really hard on. I encourage you to read them at home with your students. Students continue to write in their journals as well as learn new poems. We also completed two new class books that are in cirulation to your different homes, Dingle Dangle and Mrs. Wishy-Washy. If you have a book at home, please read it with your child and send it back the next day. We are missing quite a few.

In the upcoming weeks we will be working on American symbols as a part of our social studies curriculum. By the end of the unit students will be asked to identify some important American symbols such as the American flag and it's colors, the White House, and the President. We will also talk about the election next week.



Towards the end of November we will focus on Thanksgiving and families. We will do a few family projects and we will also work on where we live. We will make a class book on students' addresses. Phone numbers are also important for the students to learn as well.


On Friday we had our first SOARs assembly in the gym. It was a school wide assembly that highlighted the first two expectations of our SOARs motto: self-control and outstanding effort. The Francis Wyman falcon even made an appearance!

Some important dates to keep in mind:

Tuesday, November 8- Election Day- No School
Thursday, November 10- Teacher Day- No School students
Friday, November 11- Veteran's Day- No School
Thursday, November 24- Thanksgiving- No School
Friday, November 25- No School
Thursday, December 1- Parent/Teacher conferences- No School students

Special Activity with Mr. D!

Today we were super lucky and our assistant principal Mr. Doiron came in a read us the story Five Little Pumpkins. He had props for us to use and everything! After we were able to color in our own jack-o-lanterns. It was fun!

Halloween Parade update!

*The Halloween Parade will be at 9am on October 31st.  Students may come to school dressed in their costumes and bring a change of clothes.  It is highly advised that students leave all costume accessories at home as school is locked after hours.  Items lost or left behind at school may greatly increase parent's stress levels at home on Halloween night!

Please please please make sure to label everything you can! Please send in an extra bag (like a Market Basket bag) labeled with your students' name so we can make sure to put their costume away right after the parade! 

Parents are invited to come view the parade in the gym. There will be signs posted! 

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