Mrs. Hazen's Kindergarten Class Blog: March 2014

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Birds

Today was Hands on Nature and the kids learned about birds. They had the chance to go to a 5th grade classroom to see chicks that also hatched today. It was a tweety day!

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

Come Check It Out

The children created a questioning bulletin board last week inspired by the book below. Be sure to come check out your kiddo's work.

The kids are learning how scientists and active thinkers ask questions about their world. After reading a great informational text about squids that a student brought in to share today, the children learned how to write question sentences before reading text. Here is a group of kids working during writer's workshop today writing questions on post-it notes. Everyone is doing such a wonderful job with sentence structure!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

March PTO Meeting Minutes

March PTO Notes & News

Join the PTO List Serve - think of this as Front Porch Forum specific to Shelburne Community School, a periodic digest of announcements, help wanted and other topics. It can allow for more timely, easy managed communication within the school and parent community, for key subjects such as upcoming happenings (budget forum, school play, soccer tryouts, get out the vote, etc.), as well as help wanted (‘we could use a hand with International Pot Luck cleanup’, mentoring volunteers wanted, etc.), among other relevant topics.

If you would like to be added to the List Serve, please e-mail Courtney Tharpe at ctharpe25@gmail.com.

Fundraising Update

▪ Dynamic Dates – the information went home this week. If you didn’t get the forms and the tickets, you can download them here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpy2qn5YMkvVYqysh1X_cjUttFkshYJVsWFsdg10Fy0/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Feb79CPmbCDxPcD8wt2nEF7dCF1RCGIbmzqPcXTf8bk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QiSEeCOkgzZLhgnFfZTKc3d8CyvF2Rz9h1Ol3Zlao0w/edit?usp=sharing

Because of the snow days we've postponed the Dynamic Dates drawing from Monday, 3/17 to Wednesday, 3/19. This means that tickets will be due on Tuesday, 3/18.

▪ New Spring Fundraiser - Red Wagon Plants – we will be selling vegetable plants and herbs for your garden along with flowers all from this local company in Hinesburg. Look for your order packets to come home on March 28^th, with orders due back April 11th and pick up on May 22^nd.

▪ Amazon – the PTO has made almost $500 so far this year. So please remember, if you shop on AMAZON please take an extra step and enter the site through the link on the PTO page. The PTO will earn up to 15% of your purchases! Please remember that you need to use this link each time you shop for the PTO to benefit.

Fund Spending

▪ March Grant Meeting – will take place on April 2nd from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Anyone interested in participating in this committee meeting which awards grants to teachers and staff, is welcome to come.

Help Wanted

▪ Red Barn Delivery – help with unloading and distributing the Red Barn delivery on March 19^th. Contact Randy Sweeney at sweeneyrs@gmail.com if you are able to help anytime between 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm.

▪ PTO Board Positions – the PTO is looking for a new Secretary that would start next school year (2014/2015). Also, if anyone is interested in being Treasurer or Co-Chair starting during the 2015/2016 school year, please let us know as we would love to have an apprentice program in place for next year with these positions.

Other Business

▪ Bruegger’s Fundraiser for the Choir and Wind Ensemble – Sunday, March 16^th from 7:00 am – 3:00 pm if you bring in the flyer below, 15% of your purchase will go back to the Choir and Wind Ensemble.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1IV5TlL1TUvZnpHay1rbWp4dDQ/edit?usp=sharing

▪ “Like” Shelburne Community School Facebook Page

Highlights from Principals Report
▪ Spelling Bee 2014 - after 3 hours and 45 minutes and going 42 rounds without misspelling a word, Thomas Daley prevailed as the winner and will represent SCS in the Statewide Bee to be held next month at St. Michael’s College.
▪ Fiddler on the Roof - congratulations to the 32 middle school performers who provided four great performances in front of crowds in excess of 200 each night!

▪ Read Across America – a big thank you to Nancy Nakhleh, Jenn Niles, Shannon Baird, Natalie Watson and the cafeteria staff for organizing the annual Dr. Seuss celebration.

▪ Arts and Citizenship Gallery II – the latest round of eighth grade student work from the Arts & Citizenship Project is on display in the C wing hallways of SCS. It is a great culmination of the work celebrating the skills and interests that students have been practicing throughout their time at SCS.

Mark Your Calendars

March 19^th – Dynamic Dates Drawing

March 19^th – Red Barn Pick Up

May 9^th – Comedy Night Fundraiser at the Old Lantern

**The Parent Education Night on “The Library’s Many Online Resources” will be rescheduled and will not be held on March 19^th**

We look forward to seeing you next month at the PTO meeting on April 8^th at 6:00 pm in the Alpha Space. Pizza and Babysitting are provided!

Monday, March 10, 2014

Leo Lionni Flynn Center Trip

The kids had so much fun watching the three books that we read come alive with puppetry. Since we have been working on opinion writing, the kids each made a puppet of their favorite Leo Lionni character and wrote about why they liked that character this afternoon. I hope to send home their opinion writing pieces from last week along with their puppet today.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Read Across America Day

Today we celebrated the wonderful works of Dr. Suess. We read many of his stories, worked on a new bulletin board display, made some fun headbands, and went to a great assembly. Very busy, very fun!