Hi! What a week! We've had a lot of fun while getting things done! We read lots of Halloween books and poems. We had fun acting out poems! It's fun watching them use voice and great expression! We wrote campaign slogans, speeches, poems and songs for Vega! We even made a commercial. Be sure to check the school's FB page Monday - Wednesday! Some students read speeches on the announcements. We are having so much fun with Vega! We really hope she wins so she will get a special treat! Of course, we'd love the classroom surprise, too! I'm not sure if voting is only once or many times. We'll see once we vote on Monday! Be sure to share with family, friends and coworkers!!
We finished Pixie Tricks!! It was kind of sad because we have grown to love all of the characters so much. However, we're very excited for next week when we will be making fairy houses, inside and outside. We'll also be rewriting another Pixie Tricks book and more!
If you have never been to Mackworth Island, you should definitely check it out sometime. It's very easy to get to when you are heading to or from Portland. It's right off the Falmouth exit. You can also make it as long a visit as you want. It's where a lot of our fairy books are based on. It's about 1.5 mile easy, shaded, smooth walk around the entire island with benches and swings along the way. Ocean views are beautiful and the best part is the huge fairy house village half way around. You can build or just admire. It's amazing!
Our School Halloween Day was super fun! We started the day with a Halloween maze and word search. We went trick or treating on the playground to find ghosts, pumpkins, bats, rats, cauldrons and eyeballs. Each was worth different points that students had to sort and count. We did a math scoot in the hallway where we found a number and had to write the two numbers that came next. We did a special craft. We read a touchy, feely story called Poor Joe. Their faces were priceless! We put together mixed up sentences and wrote them. We finished our special day playing Halloween Bingo!
Upcoming Dates
* Thank you to everyone who sent in prizes for our School Halloween activities. They were a big hit!
* Voting will be open November 2nd - November 4th.
* Monday, Nov. 2nd - Fairy Houses inside with Peer Helpers in the morning.
* Monday, Nov. 2nd - Fairy Houses outside - You can send gloves and any garden/beach type tools your child could use in the woods for building. (small shovel, bucket to collect things, small spade) Please, label anything you send.
* Monday, Nov. 9 from 7:30 am - 6:00 pm First Grade Parent/Teacher conferences. I have been given some extra time to make sure I can fit everyone in. I will send home a paper reminder of your time next week. You can also email me or call the office if you lose your time.
* Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 1:30 - 6:00 pm First Grade Parent/Teacher conferences.
* Wednesday, Nov. 11 - No School. Veteran's Day.
* Wednesday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Nov. 29 - Thanksgiving / Fall break - No School.
* Thursday, Dec. 3 - K-3 Field Trip to The Grand in Ellsworth to see Charlie Brown Christmas.
* Wednesday, Dec. 9 - Music Concert 6:00 pm. Students should arrive in cafeteria at 5:50pm.
* Tuesday, Dec. 15 - Frogtown Puppeteers present How the Grinch Stole Christmas at 1:00 in our VCS gym.
* Wednesday, Dec. 16 - Acadia Rangers are coming to do a science workshop with primary students.
* Friday, Dec. 18 - FLEX Friday
* Wednesday, Dec. 23 - Monday, Jan. 4 - Christmas / Winter break.
We have LOTS of pics from our School Halloween day! They of course loaded backwards. I labeled what we were doing before each set. It was a super fun day!!
Halloween Bingo!
