Family Newsletter

Dear Families,

The students and I had a fun and busy week together!  This week we celebrated filling the classroom buzzy jar twice.  One time, we celebrated with a special “Show and Tell”, when the students had the opportunity to share about something special from home so we could learn more about each other.  Another time, we celebrated with a special lunch in the classroom together.  

This week, we also had several holiday/season craft workshops so all the students could create something special to take home to share with their families.  We hope you will look for these inside your child’s backpack in case your child forgets to unpack them..  This week, the students also had many opportunities to play and spend time together.  The students said goodbye to their friend Annabelle, whose last day with us was today.  Annabelle and her family are moving to another town.  While we are happy for them, we are sad to say goodbye to Annabelle but hope that she will visit and stay in touch with all of us. After our holiday break, we will welcome a new student to our class.  We feel excited about that! 

This week, we also cleaned and organized our cubbies, mailboxes and classroom.  Your child’s home folder and backpack is filled with all kinds of work and creations so please go through it at home together!

I hope you have a restful and fun holiday break together with friends and family. I will spend the first few days in Vermont with my family, then we will visit my daughter who lives and works  in Manhattan.

Have a great holiday break and Happy New Year! 

News and Reminders:

• Please consider sending in a grocery bag/plastic bag for your child’s snow gear.  Many times your child’s snowgear gets wet at/after recess and having an extra bag to pack in at dismissal will keep books and items inside your child’s backpack dry!  Thank you.

• There will be no school 12/25/23-1/1/24 due to the holiday break.  We return to school on Tuesday 1/2/23.

Have a great weekend,

Maria

Family Newsletter

Dear Families,

Here is our week in review:

Social-Emotional Learning:

• This week the students learned about making responsible choices in our classroom and at ABS.  They learned that making responsible choices do not only apply to academic learning but also to how they handle and treat each other and the materials we all use collectively.  We had restorative circles and conversations about how we can act responsibly when things break, for example.  We have noticed that many items have broken lately on Harmony House.  Pencils and legos have been snapped, clipboards and books broken and other materials that we use have also been damaged.  Things have broken in our classroom or Harmony team-space for a variety of reasons; sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.  The students learned that it is important to tell an adult when this happens so we can help mend the item (if possible), replace it (if possible) or find new productive ways to regulate the strong emotions causing this behavior.

• The students continued to celebrate each other’s resilience and perseverance in math class.  In our closing circles, the students celebrate each other’s efforts, hard work and sportsmanship when playing games and sharing materials together.  

You Can: 

• You can support your child’s understanding of making responsible choices by following up on these conversations at home too.  How do you handle these situations at home?  How are your expectations the same and/or different from those we have at school?  Consider involving your child in the process of mending a broken item or if an item has to be replaced.  Young learners love to help out.

Reading:

• This week, first grade readers continued to rotate through a variety of reading stations to improve their decoding skills while also developing a love of reading while reading authentic text.  They did a great job. This week, they accessed lexia, razkids and played a variety of games to practice decoding skills connected to their reading goals.  

• We continued reading books from Kate DiCamillo, our new author study.  The students love the books about Mercy Watson; books about the pig who goes on adventures with her owners and the neighbors.  We read these books on our document camera, projecting the pages so the students can see the text as it is read aloud.

• The students also went on “sound scavenger hunts” in decodable texts using highlighters.  They were tasked with finding words that represented/contained various phonological sounds and highlight those graphemes (letters/letter combinations).  They quickly discovered that searching for the /t/ sound, for example, does not mean that every t letter makes that sound (such as in the digraph -th)

You can:

• You can support your child’s reading at home by encouraging your child to read every day.  Reading every day and having a routine for reading time help your child develop confidence and independence in reading.  As mentioned before, repeated reading builds automaticity and fluency.  Consider interacting with the texts/books too.  Perhaps your child wants to go on a scavenger hunt at home too, circling all the long vowels, underlining the digraphs, or finding rhyming words for particular words?

Writing:

• This week, first grade writers practiced a variety of heart words, words that break the traditional phonological rules for spelling.  As mentioned before, these words cannot be “sounded out” but must be memorized, or learned by “heart”.  The students created a series of “heart word cards'' for repeated practice during literacy times.  First grade students are expected to master both reading and spelling these words by the end of first grade.  Please look for these cards next week in your child’s Home Folder.

• First grade writers also wrote responses to the stories they read this week in class.  They learned that authors sometimes write about the books they read.

• First grade authors wrote in their Friday Journals and this time they enjoyed chewing gum.  Thank you for supporting our fun and engaging way to engage the students in attending to grammar, usage and mechanics (hence, GUM).  In first grade, we focus primarily upon finger-spacing, letter formation, proper capitalization and proper ending punctuation.

You Can:

• Last week, I suggested supporting your child with “sounding out” strategies.  It might feel confusing that this week, we are focusing upon words that break that pattern.  The English language is filled with exceptions!  We call them “rule breakers”.  It is vitally important that young learners develop an understanding of the two categories so they can rely on a variety of strategies to solve their literacy needs.

Math:

• First grade mathematicians participated in Number Talks this week and had the opportunity to share their mathematical reasoning using different strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems.  

• In our small group rotations this week, first grade mathematicians developed a greater sense of  number sequences and the relative magnitude of numbers.  They used number cards and ordered them consecutively as well as non consecutively.

• In our closing circle, the students had the chance to celebrate each other's growth mindsets and perseverance in math.  They love to notice the positive contributions of their peers in math class!  

You can:

• You can support your child’s developing understanding of number sequences by engaging in conversations about number ordering and counting.  Rather than just asking your child to count forwards or backwards within a certain range, ask your child to explain which number comes “just before” or “just after” a specific number.  Ask your child to tell you which number is “2 greater than” the specific number or “2 less”.  

News and Reminders:

• Please consider sending in a grocery bag/plastic bag for your child’s snow gear.  Many times your child’s snowgear gets wet at/after recess and having an extra bag to pack in at dismissal will keep books and items inside your child’s backpack dry!  Thank you.

• There will be no school 12/25/23-1/1/24 due to the holiday break.  We return to school on Tuesday 1/2/23.

• Please consider donating money to the Horizon Craft Fair.  See this link (Horizon Crafting Company) and contact jbenoit@cvsdvt.org with any questions. 

Have a great weekend,

Maria

Family Newsletter

Dear Families,

Here is our week in review:

Social-Emotional Learning:

• This week, the students at ABS celebrated with a schoolwide buzzy celebration for being safe, kind and responsible.  They filled the school hive with buzzies again.  This time, we had a schoolwide “stop, drop what you’re doing, and dance” party together.  The students had so much fun!

• The students also filled our classroom buzzy jar.  We celebrated with a special picnic snack.  

• We celebrated World Kindness Day on Monday.  We read books about kindness and the students at ABS were encouraged to look for acts of kindness in their peers and write down their names (or the act of  kindness) on a strip of paper which we will hang as a paper chain in our school.  They loved this project so much we extended it throughout the entire week.  Ask your child what acts of kindness they discovered!

• Ms. Heather, our ABS School Counselor, is back again.  She led another Guidance lesson this week, teaching the students about safety, the importance of using one’s assertive voice or asking a caring adult for help in different situations.  The students also had the opportunity to sing and dance along to a catchy song while learning about the “never, never rules”.  Ask your child to sing it to you.  They are fantastic singers.

• The students participated in another Restorative Circle with Ms. Nicole this week.  They learned more about how to manage their emotions and how to make positive choices at school while showing respect to other students and adults.

You Can: 

• You can support your child’s social-emotional learning at home too by having conversations and clear expectations around safety.  Sometimes we call them “non-negotiables”.  In other words, there are some things that are dangerous and not up for debate.  For example, playing with the stove or with matches.  There are lots of situations young children encounter every day that are not as clear.  Take running in the hallways, rough-housing or throwing papers, pencils or other school materials for example.  While these things might be acceptable and okay at home, they are not acceptable and okay at school.  At school we must have different routines and rules from those at home.  There are many different reasons for that.  It is important that our young students learn to understand that the classroom and the school has different rules around safety.  You can help your child understand these different norms and expectations by engaging in these conversations at home too.

Reading:

• The students continued reading just right decodable books and choice books this week.  They participated in small groups and had the opportunity to read texts in whole class reading as well.  We read more books about “Library Mouse” by Daniel Kirk too.

You can:

• Your child packed some decodable texts/books for home over the holidays.  They are inside your child’s Home Folder this week.  Please consider reading these books with your child at home.  Repeated reading is encouraged for young children.  Research shows that emerging readers solidify their phonological awareness skills, build confidence and skills when practicing repeated readings.  

• Thank you for helping your child read online at Lexia and/or razkids as well.  Many children have earned special certificates for their efforts and they are placed inside your child’s Home Folders too.

Writing:

• This week, the students continued practicing decoding and encoding CVC words.  Decoding means to look at a word and using strategies to read the word properly while representing all the sounds.  Encoding means to write the word while stretching our each sound and representing it in writing with the corresponding letters.  The students also learned about digraphs.  Digraphs are two letters that make one sound.  This week, they learned about the following digraphs: sh, wh, th, sh, ch, and -ck  With continued practice, the students are expected to be able to read words correctly with these letter combinations/sounds.  The students are also expected to be able to represent these letter combinations/sounds in writing.

You Can:

• There is an informational family letter from Fundations inside your child’s Home Folder this week.  It outlines our new unit on digraphs and other helpful information.  Please consider doing the activities and games included as well as a way to support your child’s emerging spelling and writing skills.  Thank you.

Math:

• First grade mathematicians learned about teen numbers this week.  They learned that anchoring to 10 and finding “some more” help mathematicians solve problems more efficiently.  They played several new games and rotated through stations to explore 10 and some more with rekenreks, unifix cubes and 10 frames.

• This week, first grade mathematicians also participated in a story-problem solving challenge.  They were partnered up and worked on our vertical whiteboards to solve a problem involving ten and more using mathematical representations, equations and labels.  They did an outstanding job collaborating and explaining their thinking.

You can:

• Your child has several games and activities for home use inside the Home Folder.  Please consider playing these games with your child to encourage mathematical thinking at home too.  As always these games/activities are optional and they do not need to come back to school.  Thank you for considering.

News and Reminders:

• There is no school next week due to our Thanksgiving break, 11-20-11/24.  School resumes on Monday 11/27.  I hope you will have a safe and restful holiday with friends and family.  Get some rest too!  Fingers crossed for a healthier return.

Have a great weekend and week off,

Maria

Family Newsletter

 Dear Families,

Here is our week in review:

Social-Emotional Learning:

• This week, we had another Guidance class with Ms. Nancy.  The students learned about how they can use their assertive voices when they feel unsafe or distracted by other people.  They had the chance to practice different scenarios.  They learned how they can use their assertive voices to say no, rather than getting influenced by other students when unexpected things happen and how they can stay focused on the group plan.  This is a skill we will continue to work on in the weeks ahead.

• The students are making positive relationships in class and play well together.  If you are interested in scheduling additional time for your child to play with a peer from our classroom, please use the student contact information list I emailed you and placed inside your child's Home Folder.).  The list is based upon permissions granted and information provided in PowerSchool so please let me know if any information needs to be updated or changed.  Thank you and have fun playing together outside of school!

• This week we started restorative circle time with Ms. Nicole.  Ms. Nicole is our SEL Coach and she will join our classroom weekly for the next few weeks.  Restorative circles provide opportunities for students to share their thoughts on different topics and everyone has a chance to speak.   We always start our circles with a “zone check-in”.  A “zone check-in” is a quick check-in about how everyone is feeling.  At ABS, we follow the Zones of Regulation approach which teaches our young learners self-regulation and identification of feelings based on a color-coded system.  Here is a picture to explain the approach:

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You Can: 

• You can support your child’s social-emotional learning at home too.  If you want to, try to introduce the above color-labeled emotions at home too.  This is particularly powerful when young children start to feel strong emotions.  The zones help the children label and identify their feelings; the first step in accessing self-regulatory practices and techniques that reflect prosocial and productive solutions.  Try sharing your own feelings too in different situations.  Young children benefit from seeing the adult in their lives model how they self-regulate when they experience strong  emotions.  For example, share that you feel frustrated (on the yellow) and tell your child why.  Share with your child that you will manage this emotion by doing something productive and helpful (so you can get back to feeling calm; on the green).  Share with your child that you might choose to take some deep breaths, use positive self-talk, go and get some water, or count back quietly from 10, or any other strategy that works for you.  Young children benefit from seeing the adults in their lives model this because many times they do not necessarily know that adults experience the same emotional range as the children.

Reading:

• This week, we continued to read multiple books during our read aloud times and in our small groups.  A new favorite book is “If you ever want to bring a piano to the beach-don’t” by Elise Parsley. Ask your child to tell you what happened and why it is not a good idea to bring a piano to the beach.  Also ask your child to share what other famous book this reminded us of.

You can:

• The students read decodable readers too.  Some students brought home smaller books/texts for additional practice at home.  Please read these at home and keep them in a safe place for future repeated practice.

• Thank you for supporting your child’s growth in reading by using Lexia and razkids at home!

Writing:

• This week, first grade authors continued to build stamina and independence.  They learned new skills for sounding out each phoneme when spelling CVC words.  (CVC words are consonant-vowel-consonant words such as map, pit, hat, etc).  They created word strings to represent the different sounds heard in spoken language as they represented these sounds by the proper letters.  We are so proud of them all!  

• We reviewed our heart words this week.  They are: sure, because, said and you

You Can:

• You can support your child’s enthusiasm and joy of writing at home by reading/doing the activities in last  week’s Home Folder from Fundations, our spelling program.  The parent newsletters from Fundations always include many valuable resources, games and activities for families to have at home.  

Math:

• We welcome Mrs. Singh to our math classroom.  Mrs. Singh will join our math class every day for our explorations and investigations into the world of numbers and patterns!  Mrs. Singh is our new math interventionist at ABS.  Welcome!

• This week, first grade mathematicians continued to build a deeper understanding of the relationships between part-part-whole and the connections between addition and subtraction in this regard.  They used number bonds and written equations to show their understanding of parts of numbers to 10, such as 9-2=7 because 7+2=9, etc

• This week, our amazing mathematicians had a chance to practice their facts to 10 while playing two new games; “Yogurt” and “Drop the Beans”.  Ask your child to explain these two games.

You can:

• While solving math problems this week, we learned more about the importance of having a positive attitude and mindset towards math.  Having a growth mindset helps all learners manage their emotions while working through increasingly complex problems and situations.  They did an outstanding job in class showing a growth mindset and recognizing this in others.  Consider recognizing each other at home for having a growth mindset when basic tasks are completed and dealt with.  Young children thrive on positive feedback and if they see caring adults in their lives using these strategies too, the connections between school and home become more powerful.

News and Reminders:

• I will be out of school next Thursday and Friday (11/9 and 11/10).  The students will have a guest teacher for these two days.  As a result, I will not send a newsletter next week. Please consider talking to your child about the importance of listening to the guest teacher’s directions too.  Consider talking to your child about how he/she can be a role model and show what is expected every day by making safe, kind and responsible choices so everyone can access learning.  I am sure the students will have wonderful days with the guest teacher.

Have a great weekend,

Maria

 Dear Families,

Here is our week in review:

Social-Emotional Learning:

• This week, we had another buzzy celebration because the students filled the classroom buzzy jar again for being safe, kind, and responsible.  This time, the students voted for pajama and stuffy day.  We had a terrific day learning and playing with our stuffed animals!

• The students continued to learn more strategies and skills for focusing their attention this week.  In previous weeks, they have learned about whole body listening skills and how using the “attent-o-scope” can help them.  They have also learned different mindful breathing activities and how taking a break can help us get refocused on the task at hand.  This week, the students practiced another strategy.  They learned about the power of repeating the directions quietly to themselves as a way to focus and remember what to do.  The students practiced this individually but also in small groups and partner settings as they practiced revoicing what other friends had shared.  They did great.  They realized that being “brain in” helps us understand our surroundings better.

You Can: 

• You can support this learning at home by engaging in the conversations suggested in this week’s Second Step HomeLink assignment.  As always, this is optional but we encourage parents to try these strategies as a way to embed self-regulatory techniques at home too.

Reading:

• This week in reading the students rotated through several different reading stations.  They practiced reading skills reflecting their own individual needs and they were encouraged to reread the texts and books independently after meeting with the teacher.

• The students also learned about two new heart-words this week.  Heart words are words that cannot be “sounded out” in English and thus need to be memorized.  This week, they learned the following new words: sure and you.  They are encouraged to find these words in the books they read.  

You can:

• The students also accessed a new online reading platform called razkids.  Razkids is an outstanding reading program that you can access from home too.  It is linked on the student portal on the school website.  The students are encouraged to listen and read the stories online. You can encourage your child to access razkids at home too.  Since we have introduced two online reading programs already, it might be helpful for you and your family to design a schedule for your child to follow (if you access these programs at home).  The weeks go by quickly and the evenings are busy with sports and activities. In the past, some families have shared that they use different reading platforms on different days.  Let me know if I can help.

Writing:

• The students continued to learn more about phonological skills this week in our spelling and writing classes.  It is so wonderful to see their progress and joy of writing!  

• We read the book “Library Mouse” by Daniel Kirk this week.  In this book, a little mouse is writing tiny books that he secretly shares in the school library.  All the children at the school are curious who this amazing author is, so the little mouse places a little box with a mirror inside it for the children to meet the author.  When the children look inside to meet the author, they see themselves!  They are the authors!  We have the exact same box in our classroom. The students are encouraged to look inside the box and remind themselves of their own awesome power as authors, while writing tiny mini-books, using tiny mini-pencils, just like the mouse in the story.

You Can:

• You can support your child’s enthusiasm and joy of writing at home by checking out the parenting letters I included in this week’s Home Folder from Fundations, our spelling program.  These newsletters include many valuable resources, games and activities for families to have at home.  

Math:

• This week, first grade mathematicians continued to explore groups of numbers using our Number Bond models.  This week we included the subtraction strategies and equations as well as the students learned about parts of numbers/quantities.  For example, if we know that 3+7=10, we also know that 10-3=7 and 10-7=3.  The students played games with math partners and explored our other workplace options too.

• This week, first grade mathematicians also had an opportunity to participate in open-ended problem-solving to deepen their collaborative skills while also practicing having a growth mindset in math class.  They were randomly partnered up by our special “buzzy bag” match-up system (ask your child to explain more)  The students worked on vertical whiteboards to find multiple combinations and possibilities for the same problem.  They are outstanding mathematicians and are learning to work together nicely.

You can:

• You can encourage your child to develop a positive mindset about math by engaging in conversations about numbers and math around us.  Ask your child “keep thinking” questions rather than “stop thinking/find the answer” questions.  In other words, emphasize the process and the strategy your child used to solve a particular problem.  Ask your child to explain his/her thinking another way, or tell you why something is true or not true.  Have fun talking about numbers and math!

News and Reminders:

• School picture retakes will be on Monday, October 30th.  If you are interested in participating in this, please contact the front office for the guidelines. 

Have a great weekend,

Maria

Family Newsletter

 Dear Families,

Here is our week in review:

Social-Emotional Learning:

• The students filled our classroom buzzy jar again for being safe, kind and responsible.  This time we celebrated with “Choose Your Own Adventure”, a time when the students chose to use chromebooks, listen to music, read or draw.  They made terrific choices reflecting their own preferences and needs.

• In mindfulness this week, the students learned about various breathing techniques.  They learned how deep breathing can help calm us down, feel happy and relaxed, while also helping us get back on track.  They learned that we can use visual images to help us stay focused on deep breathing.  The students learned about “the square”, “the triangle” and “the star” breathing methods.  For each image, the students practiced breathing in and breathing out as they imagined tracing their fingers along the outlines of these various shapes. They also learned about “the infinity breathing technique” and my favorite, “the belly breathing method”.  Ask your child to show you at home.  You might want to try some of these breathing methods as well?

• The students also learned how we can use “the mindful morning countdown” from 5 as a way to regain focus and regulate our emotions. In addition to using 5 deep breaths, the students learned a series of new strategies following the countdown structure from 5.  They did an outstanding job.

You Can: 

• You can support your child’s new mindfulness strategies by having a conversation with your child about the different methods introduced this week.  Your child has our “mindful morning countdown” strategies in the Home Folder this week.  Perhaps you want to integrate some of these strategies at home when your child needs to regulate and refocus?  Using positive self-affirmations and thinking about something that makes you happy and grateful help children re-set their thinking patterns and get back to the task at hand.  Learning to self-regulate and choose that strategy works best is empowering for young learners and builds resilience, confidence and independence.  

Reading:

• First grade readers continued to practice reading strategies and skills this week.  We started our guided reading groups, a time when the students meet with the teacher/adult to receive individualized reading instruction.  The students are participating in reading groups through a series of stations and small groups. 

• We continued reading our classroom chapter book too and several shorter books during snack/read aloud  time.  The students love books and being read to!  A new favorite book is “The Peace Book” by Todd Parr.  They loved his illustrations too and we got many fabulous ideas for making new drawings in class too.

You can:

• You can support your child’s learning at home by reading together every day.  Daily reading with young children leads to many positive outcomes, not just in terms of reading skills and achievement, but also in terms of connecting on a personal level.  Thank you for reading the library books every week and returning them promptly the following week so other students at our school can enjoy them too.

• Since we cannot send home classroom/team instructional books with our students, I will start to send home printed books/texts and pages.  If your child has been working on texts that I can share with you at home, these texts will be inside your child’s Home Folder.  There is no need to return these books.  If there are no books/texts inside your child’s Home Folder this week (or next), your child received instruction from guided reading books that we unfortunately cannot send home.  Thank you for understanding. 

• Your child will periodically take home Scholastic magazines.  Sometimes, we read them at school and sometimes we send them home for optional reading and learning.  This week, we are sending home a magazine we read at school and another that we did not.  We hope you will read this together at home. There is no need to send back the magazine.

Writing:

• The students continued to develop their phonological awareness and decoding skills in our Fundations  and writing classes.  This week, they learned to tap our and represent the sounds of shorter CVC words.  We primarily focused upon the medial, vowel sounds as they can be tricky for young spellers and readers.

• The students also learned about heart words this week.  Heart words are words that break the traditional phonological spelling rules and thus cannot be “sounded out” so they must be memorized and learned by heart.  This week, we practiced the following words: said and because.

You Can:

• You can support your child’s emerging phonological awareness skills and confidence by encouraging your child to “sound out” words they attempt to write.  Stretching out each sound and tapping also help our students isolate each sound.

• You can ask your child to explain why “said” and “because” are considered heart words and why sounding out would not be an efficient strategy when spelling or reading these words.  Your child brought home these two words on index cards.  Please consider placing them in a safe place for future use as your child will need to practice reading and spelling these words.

Math:

• In math this week, the students continue to deepen their understanding of composing and decomposing numbers.  They played various games in our workplace stations and had the opportunity to play together in partnerships.  

• The students also learned about how “Number Bonds” can help us visualize smaller groups/parts of numbers.  A Number Bond mat provides a graphic organizer for young mathematicians to interact with physical objects as they build their understanding of smaller groups of numbers.  We used unifix cubes this week.  

• The students also learned how to mathematically represent these parts in abstract mathematical writing by using this format to write an expression to show their understanding.  Ask your child to show you at home! Here is an image of a Number Bond so you get the idea:

You can:

• You can support your child’s learning of mathematics at home by providing opportunities for your child to interact with smaller objects in an effort to build number sense.  Research shows that young students learn best when they have opportunities to use their hands/play/interact with materials while simultaneously using their verbal knowledge and showing their thinking in drawings and/or mathematical representations.  Most parents do not have rekenreks and unifix cubes at home.  Instead, consider using things your child can count and divide into smaller groups.  How about uncooked pasta?  Small rocks or pebbles outside, or use legos?  Encourage your child to represent their number parts by creating two small groups from their starting total and then show their understanding as a number bonds.

Science:

• We had another 4 Winds class.  This time the students of Harmony House learned about erosion.  We enjoyed a puppet show and explored erosion in different stations outside.
  
  

A note from PE:

We have completed our soccer unit and will now begin the first of our endurance runs that will occur sporadically throughout the rest of the school year.  This year we have chosen to run the Pacific Crest Trail which is 2,650 miles in length.  Each class from Kindergarten to Grade two will run and collect miles, we add up the totals and slowly move our marker along the route map which is displayed in the gym. The aim of this unit is to teach students how to pace themselves, how to set a goal set, how to persevere and how to keep their hearts and bodies healthy. If you take a walk/hike as a family please record how far you went and send a note of paper into school and we can add these extra miles to our total.

Thanks for all your help sending in spare shoes and socks during our soccer unit as we dealt with the morning dew. Our runs will take place on the bike path and lessons will return to the gym on the week beginning October 30th. Please remind students to bring their sneakers on PE days. Any questions please email us at kgrozier@cvsdvt.org and lporter@cvsdvt.otg.

Keep on running,

Ms. Kate and Ms. Porter

News and Reminders:

• Your child’s school pictures are inside the Home Folder today.  If you wish to re-take these pictures, please contact the front office.  I do not know when picture retakes will happen yet, but please make sure the front office staff knows your child will participate.  Thank you.

Have a great weekend,

Maria