Kindergarten Museum

Here are some highlights of our fabulous Kindergarten Museum! It was nice to see so many of you today. If you had to miss it- here is some of what you missed!

Room 113-Impressionist Gallery

Room 114- Self Portrait Gallery

Room 115-Modern Art Gallery

Room 102- Egyptian Art Gallery

Room 101- Impressionist Gallery

Room 116- Multicultural Gallery

A friendly reminder from the Nurse...

We have had a lot of sickness in our class recently.. This is from the Francis Wyman Handbook. Students need to be kept home for 24 hours after the fever breaks to ensure they are no longer sick. Even if they feel fine at home, symptoms can pop back up. We want everyone healthy in school!


Children who have symptoms of a communicable disease should be seen by their pediatrician. In order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and to ensure rapid recovery, it is advisable to keep a child home from school when they show symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, fever over 100°, chills, congestive cough, runny nose, sore throat, or skin eruptions, etc. Your child should be symptom-free of for at least 24 hours before returning to school. If these symptoms are identified at school, the parents will be notified and your child will be sent home. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL WITH THESE SYMPTOMS WHILE AWAITING A CALL FROM THE DOCTOR. 


http://www.burlington.org/departments/schools/francis_wyman_elementary_school/docs/FrancisWymanStudentHandbook2014_2015.pdf

From the PTO...

✷ On Saturday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. the Burlington Recreation Department is having a Youth and Human Services Day, which is dedicated to Burlington’s many landmarks and learning about different groups, organizations, and services the town of Burlington has to offer.

In the morning, the Burlington Youth Soccer Association will be at the Marshall Simonds Middle School with activities such as, a Q and A table, juggling, dribbling, goalkeeping and games. This event is from 10 a.m. to noon.  

The Friends of the Landlocked Forest will be having guided tours of the Landlocked Forest as well as guided mountain biking. You can choose one or the other.

For this specific event you’ll need to meet at the Rec. Dept. at 10:30 a.m. to caravan over to the forest or meet over at Turning Mill parking lot at 43 Turning Mill Rd. at 10:45 a.m. 

From 12 to 2 p.m. there will be outdoor activities at Simonds Park provided by a number of organizations including The Army National Guard, Mother to Mother, The Girl Scouts of Burlington, Creative Start Children’s Centers, the Burlington Softball and Baseball Association, and the Burlington players.

Finally from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. take a guided tour through Mary Cummings Park which boasts a variety of different landscape types, including forests, fields and wetlands.

Everyone in town is welcomed to come to the event.There is no registration necessary and the event is also free.

Library Fun!

We went to the library today and we picked out new books, as well as used the different stations. We learned some new yoga poses, tried to make cup towers as high as we could go, built lots of different things with Legos, made beautiful bead bracelets, and tried to get Cody the mouse to the cheese by coding!

March 24

The artwork the students are turning out has been amazing! We started learning about the Ancient Egyptian culture this week. We learned that they made the pharaohs into mummies and put them in the great pyramids. Ask your student what animal was very important to the Egyptians and what they made into mummies as well! I cannot wait to display all of their hard work at our Kindergarten Museum on April 11th. All are invited to attend!

 Artists hard at work this week.




We have continued to share our All I Am books. I am so impressed with the students' writing. We also did an opinion piece this week. We talked about what it means to have an opinion on something and looked at some mentor texts of other students’ writings. Students picked whether they liked the slide or swings  better at recess. We will continue to work on opinion writing next week.

Learning new poems.

We started a new unit in math this week. We are still working with teen numbers, but have been focusing on the group of 10 and the left overs. Students have been doing a great job with this. I would encourage you to keep practicing counting at home, the math fluency facts, and even writing the numbers as high as students can go.

We have been working with our Kindergarten sight words quite a bit. Keep on practicing them at home! I sent home a few flash cards this week with a practice log. This is completely optional but it is something you can do with your student if you would like. I assessed students on their words this week and they are doing great. Keep up the good work.

Building at the different library stations.

Yoga

Mrs. Ardizonni, our technology teacher, and Ms. Carney our librarian came into our class to do a snowman glyph project on the iPads. Students created a snowman and decorated him or her depending on different criteria. It was fun to see how they turned out!

Snowman glyph with Mrs. Ardizonni on the iPads. 

Comparing our glyphs with Ms. Carney.

Finished product!

Our next Scholastic book order will be due March 31st. You can access the website through the link at the top of my blog.

Have a great weekend!