The Results Are In

Kindergarten and grade 4 students teamed up for a read-a-thon.  Their experience had many wonderful benefits.  As global citizens who have become aware of the needs of others, they were motivated to read to raise funds to make a donation to Heifer International.   They are hunger heroes!

Congratulations, students raised $2000!

Fourth graders collected and organized the donations and then created proposals of how the money would be allocated.  Finally they created an online survey that enabled all to vote.

The results are in!  28% voted to support others by applying our donation in the following manner:
28 chickens, 2 llamas, 2 ducks, 2 buffalo, 2 pigs, 2 goats and 1 tree!

Furthermore, students are currently researching and learning about these animals as part of our exploration into researching and studying living vs non- living!  Students will be writing scripts soon and will then make a video presentation about the animals they researched!

May Newsletter and More

Curious about what is coming?  Check out our May Newsletter.  The link is live at the top of the blog.

Here is a highlight list of things to come in during the remaining days of school......we have less than 50 days left in our school year.

Calendar of Events

Friday, April 26 - Guest Readers - Parents are invited to read with us!

Friday, April 26 - Pine Glen Crazy Hair Day

A reward incentive as part of our PBIS program.

Week of May 6 - Pine Glen Spring Book Fair

Details will be sent home with students.

Week of May 20 - Science Exploration

Students will be working to understand the impact of the sun on ice.

May 23 - Zoo Field Trip with Grade 4 Friends

We will head to the Franklin Park Zoo for the day.  Additional details were sent home with the zoo permission slip.

Friday, May 24 - Science and Engineering Challenge

Students will be will be challenged to create a structure to keep popsicles from melting!

Friday, May 31 - Guest Readers - Join us for our final guest reading time before we participate in the Pine Glen Walkathon.  Bring a book from home to share.

Friday, May 31 - Pine Glen Walkathon - We will be participating in the Pine Glen Walkathon and invite parents to volunteer and join us in this venture.

June 5, 6 - Travel North America

We will explore North America by travelling across a giant map!  Details will be sent home with students.

June 7 - Spirit Day Field Games

We will participate in some field games and relay races!

Wednesday, June 12 - Family Gathering

We are preparing for a mini singing concert and are getting our books ready to share.  We are very excited about having all parents visit our classroom. We hope you all can come!

Thursday, June 13th–

Bingo and 4th Grade Reading Partners-  Please allow your child to bring a book they would like to share with their 4th grade friends.

June 14 -  Kindergarten Water Day

If the weather cooperates with us we will celebrate the end of kindergarten with a water day!  Please send your child to school with a bathing suit, towel, some type of shoe that can be worn in the water, and some type of cover-up.  Also, please apply sunscreen to your child before sending them to school

Monday, June 17th – Bingo and 2nd Grade Reading Partners-  Please allow your child to bring a book they would like to share with their 2nd grade friends.

Tuesday, June 18th - Movie Voting

Please bring in a “G” rated movie today so we can vote on what we will watch on Wednesday, June 19.

Tuesday, June 18th- Bring a board game

Please allow your child to choose 1 game to bring to school.  Please make sure the game is labeled and your child KNOWS how to play the game.   

Wednesday, June 19th – Movie Day

Please have your child bring in their favorite “G” rated movie on Tuesday, June 19th. We will have a class vote on which movie we should watch.  In addition, we will be sending home a special “Party in a bag”  so we can celebrate the end of the school year.

Thursday, June 20th- Last day of school

This will be a half day.   A note will go home with specifics closer to the last day.  If your child will be riding the bus home it will be with all the other elementary students.  We will not be going to lunch. If you opt to pick up your child on this day, you will have to follow the morning drop off routine to pick up your child.

What Are You Reading?

What have you been reading during the vacation week?   Check out the Flip Grid question.  Respond by sending Mrs. Hoyt a photo of yourself reading, record a video response or write about it in your journal!

Friendly Feedback

Feedback Wanted

We are always looking for ways to grow, for ways to be better.  Parent voices
and perspectives are greatly valued and appreciated.  An online survey has
been sent to room 103 parent email addresses and has been posted on the
classroom blog.  Please help us by sharing your thoughts and comments on
this anonymous online survey. If you would prefer a paper copy of the
survey, please let us know and I will send it along in your child’s
communication folder.

Thank you!

-Mrs. Hoyt

An Eggcellent Learning Adventure

Some eggcellent and eggstra-special learning took place this week.  There is a lot to chat about with your children!

Be sure to inquire about our new high school intern, Ms. Fillmore who began her 5 week hands on learning opportunity with us.  All are excited to have Ms. Fillmore with us!  Ms. Fillmore will be a freshman at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in the fall and plans to study education!

We ventured outside to test our sight words knowledge on Friday! All participated in a sight word egg hunt!  Eggs, containing the 60 words we have learned thus far were hidden in the field outside our classroom!  We went hunting with a list and when we found a word, we read it and checked it off! Ask your child to read the list of words to you.  They proudly took their lists home to share. 

We also spent some time exploring colors and mixing as we used different mediums to paint eggs!  What fun!

This week we also cracked eggs and wrote the cvc word contained inside them! In addition we used eggs to create other cvc words.  Mrs. Hoyt can find many uses for plastic eggs!  It has been an eggceptional week of learning!

Finally, to end our week, we were excited to find out that our Room 103 community will be welcoming a new classmate after the April vacation week.  Students wrote a welcome letter to Troy and then created a class book to offer some suggestions about things they thought he should know.  Stay tuned as we introduce Troy after break!

We completed graphic organizers to plan our writing about spring!

We updated our Weather Wednesday charts!

We even did a little spring cleaning as part of our welcoming in of the season!  Students used Magic Erasers to clean our tables!