Bike Trip 2013

Thank you to EVERYONE for helping to make our annual bike ride field trip a reality once again! From bringing your child's bike to school and picking it up afterward, to being a chaperone on our trip, this trip truly takes a village to make happen. Your involvement is much appreciated--I think almost everyone had a great time! I took some pictures on our trip, and a parent email me a few too. So, here's a glimpse of our day yesterday! Thank goodness the rain held off for us--just a few sprinkles at lunch time. 

Lining up...ready to ride!

  

 

 

On our way back to Airport Park!

They made it!

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

A surprise refreshment at the end of our ride!

Potato Planting Time!

Last week, students participated in the first part of an exciting project--planting potatoes for the Colchester Food Shelf! Students each planted one potato and learned a bit about how potatoes grow. Next year, in second grade, they will harvest these potatoes and many of them will be donated to the Food Shelf to provide food for our community. The plant life cycle is a second grade science unit, so this project ties in nicely. Thank you to Ralph Perkins, one of the founders of Tuberville (www.tuberville.org) for organizing this collaboration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memorial Day

On Tuesday afternoon, our class shared at our school-wide assembly about Memorial Day. We shared some of the important words of The Pledge of Allegiance and what they mean so that we can all understand it better. Students decorated the words with crayons and read a simple definition of the words in front of our school audience. Everyone was impressed with our hard work!

The UMS celebration was among those featured on our district's blog, the CSD Spotlight, and the link to the article can be found here. 

Our presentation was based on this book.

Mr. Antonicci took this panoramic photo of everyone holding the words we highlighted during our presentation about the Pledge. You can click on this photo to see a larger image. It's tricky to get these long panoramas exactly true to scale, but you get the idea! :-)

Chick Hatch Celebration

Thank you to everyone who was able to send something in and/or attend our Chick Hatch Celebration on Friday afternoon last week. Despite the very rainy and chilly day, we had a great party in the classroom. Students were able to share their All About Chicks books and then rotate through three stations: a chick puppet art project, a chick observation and "petting" station, and the ever-popular special snack (thank you again!!!). Here are a few photos from the celebration:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life Cycle "Quadramas"

I hope your child's life cycle "quadrama" made it home safely on Friday! Each quadrant represents a phase of the chicken life cycle: egg, chick hatching, chick, and chicken. Students did an amazing job with this project, and I think the results speak for themselves! Here are just a few examples...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chick Portraits

I took everyone's photo while they held the chicks on Thursday last week. I think they turned out great, and your child will receive a print of this photograph as part of their end-of-the-year gift from me. :-)