Weekly Update

Dear Families,
Our Reading Restaurant was a huge success!  Thank you all for coming to celebrate the students writing.  Thank you also for taking the time to read our stories and writing all the tips for our authors.  Thius means so much to our young writers.  Here are some pictures for you to enjoy:

The students "practiced" Reading Restaurant with their friends from Horizon and Synergy as well.  We also invited Sharon Davison's Kindergarten class and Patricia Casey's Pre-School class to join us.  Here are some pictures from those special events:

We have many special events planned for the weeks ahead.  Here are some highlights and reminders:

• Tomorrow, Wednesday May 27, Harmony has a field-trip to Shelburne Museum.  This is a whole day trip so please make sure your child brings a packed lunch and snack and something to drink.  The weather forecast calls for hot and humid weather so please dress accordingly.  We will be outside the entire day.  The bus will leave around 8-8:30 am from Allen Brook and will return to our school for regular dismissal.  Thank you to those of you chaperoning this event.
• Monday, June 1st is Step-Up day at WCS for incoming 3rd graders.  All current second graders will take the bus over to WCS and meet their new teacher and class-mates. First graders will stay at ABS.
• Friday, June 5th is Step-Up Day for Kindergarten.  Our current first graders will meet their new class-mates and first graders for next year.
• Monday, June 8th is Fun Day.  More information will follow.
• Tuesday, June 16th is our last day of school and it is a half-day!

Weekly Update

Dear Families,

Thank you for returning the permission slips for our upcoming field-trip to Shelburne Museum on May 27th.  This is a whole day field-trip and the students need to pack snack, drinks and a bag lunch for the day. As this is mostly an outdoor event, children will also need to dress accoding to the weather that day. We are still looking for chaperones.  If you are willing, and able, to join us, please consider spending the day at Shelburne Museum with us!  If you can only join us half-day, that is fine too.  We will depart in the morning and return in the afternoon, in time for regular dismissal.  Some parents will drive to Shelburne Museum and meet us there, but some parents will also ride the bus with us.  Please let me know if you are interested.  Thank you.  If you did not return the permission slip, please send it in as soon as possible.  Thank you!

Reading Restaurant is next week.  It is on Wednesday, May 20th.  The first seating is between 6-6:40pm, and the second seating is at 6:50-7:30pm.  Your child will "work" in our restaurant when you attend.  Please come on time as we transition sessions promptly at 6:40.  Thank you!

The children are busy creating covered bridges and painting them for our reading restaurant.  It has been amazing to see them work together and solve the engineering aspects of this bridge structure.  They shared ideas with each other, used a variety of materials and re-created parts of their bridge structure if it needed reinforcements.  We found that when we painted our bridges, for example, the paint acted as heavy snow.  The added weight on our roof structures created new problems that the students had to solve.  Isn't science and engineering fun?!

 

 This week, the students will continue working on various writing pieces for reading restaurant.  They will also work on putting their scrapbooks together.  We will continue with reading groups as well.  Your child is still expected to bring home homework every week.  Math comes home on Mondays in our homework folders and the math and the reading logs are due back on Friday.  Please return book club books on Friday as other students on our team read them as well.

I hope you all had a great weekend and Mother's Day!

Best,

Maria