Announcements 6-7-2019

FRIDAY, JUNE 7th

JOKE OF THE WEEK LINK TO VIDEO

BREAKFAST MONDAY Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese Assorted Cereal Graham Crackers TUESDAY Homemade Blueberry Muffin Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese WEDNESDAY Homemade Breakfast Round Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese THURSDAY Danimals w/granola Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese FRIDAY Iced Honey Bun Whole Grain Bagel Cream Cheese

SNACKS THURSDAY - Cantaloupe FRIDAY - Apples

LUNCH MONDAY Dress Your  Own Burger  Garden Pasta  Salad Daily Soup  Fresh Fruit &  Veggie Bar TUESDAY Taco Bar w/  The Works  Garden Salsa  Rice Pilaf  Daily Soup  Fresh Fruit &  Veggie Bar WEDNESDAY Stewardship Day  Local BBQ Misty Knoll  Grilled Chicken  Mackenzie  Hot Dogs  Roasted Red  Potatoes  Caesar Salad  Strawberries & Blueberries  Kingdom Creamery  Maple Frozen  Yogurt THURSDAY Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce  Garlic Breadsticks  Daily Soup  Fresh Fruit &  Veggie Bar FRIDAY Grilled Cheese  Sandwich  Creamy  Tomato Soup  Fresh Fruit &  Veggie Bar

RECESS WEATHER It looks like the day will be beautiful. To see totally up-to-date weather information you can go to THIS LINK

OPEN DOORS The Summer 2019 brochures have been handed out within the communities and at lunch! The Open Doors programs are for students going into 3rd-8th grade. We advise kids to plan on having 100% attendance, as waiting lists are made for most programs. Turn in your registration as soon as possible, as spots fill up quickly! The following programs are FULL for Summer 2019 Open Doors, July 8th-12th: Cultural Cooking and Crafts Yoga and Just Dance Minecraft Gardening Never Bored Games Programs with space: Exploring Local Ecosystems Hip-Hop Drumming Sports Sampler Theater Week two has PLENTY of open opportunities - sign up today for July 15th-19th! Programs offered: Exploring Local Ecosystems Fun in the Sun Sewing and Crafts Duke's Fitness Theater Program choices are limited and we will do the best we can to make sure everyone is enrolled in something they will like! *Acceptance letters will be distributed Thursday, June 13th! ATHLETICS Want to plan ahead? Here is the LINK TO THE ONLINE ATHLETICS CALENDAR NOTE: The Monday, June 10th softball game has been moved to TUESDAY, June 11th @ E. Fairfield, 4 pm. Softball practice and games: MONDAY 6/10 TUESDAY 6/11 Softball Game @ E. Fairfield, 4 pm WED. 6/12 THURSDAY 6/13 FRIDAY 6/14

MUSIC PRACTICE WITH MR. KELLY Friday: No Practice

IMPORTANT DATES JUNE Bike Trip on the Rail Trail for all 6th Graders Friday, June 7th. 8:30 AM to 2:15 PM. Transportation: Bus. If Friday looks bad weather-wise the ride will be held on Thursday, June 6th. Kindergarten Dairy Farm Trip to Green Wind Farm. Friday, June 7th. 9:00 to 11:30 AM. Transportation: Bus Travelers Field Trip to Mt. Philo State Park Friday, June 7th. 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus Explorers Field Trip to Echo Center Friday, June 7th. 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus USA Field Trip to Georgia Beach Friday, June 7th. 9:45 AM to 2:15 PM. Transportation. Bus Renaissance Field Trip to Killkare State Park Friday, June 7th. 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus 8th Grade Trip Night on the Spirit of Ethan Allen Boat Friday, June 7th. Bus leaves at 5:00. Return at 9:15 PM. Adventurers' Game Night Monday, June 10th. 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Location: Library Families: Come to the Spring Trimester Fine Arts Showcase. Chorus, Dance, Art Work. Monday, June 10th. 6:00 PM. Location: Large Gym Triumph Camping Trip at Camp Abnaki June 11th and June 12th. 8:00 AM Tuesday to 2:00 PM Wednesday. Transportation: Bus Graduation Day for 8th Graders Wednesday, June 12th. 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Location: Large Gym and Cafeteria. Investigators Field Trip to St. Albans Bay Park Wednesday, June 12th. 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus Navigators Field Trip to Shelburne Farms Wednesday, June 12th. 9:00 AM to 1:15 PM. Transportation: Bus Incredibles Field Trip to Covenant Hills Wednesday, June 12th - Thursday, June 13th. 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation: Bus PreK - Cottage Group End of Year Event with Families (Morning Group) Wednesday, June 12th. 9:15 to 10:00 AM. Location: Library PreK - Cottage Group End of Year Event with Families (Afternoon Group) Wednesday, June 12th. 12:45 to 1:30 AM. Location: Library Last Day for Ms. Gleason's Pre-K Thursday, June 13th. Dreamers Field Trip to Shelburne Farms Thursday, June 13th. 9:00 AM to 1:15 PM. Transportation: Bus Discovery Field Trip to Covenant Hills Thursday, June 13th - Friday, June 14th. 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM. Transportation: Bus Voyagers Field Trip to Camp Abnaki Thursday, June 13th - Friday, June 14th. 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Bus Travelers Field Trip to Houghten Park and Hoss' Dog House Friday, June 14th. 12:00 noon to 2:30 PM. Transportation: Walking Last Day for Pre-K Full Day Program Friday, June 14th. Last Day for Kindergarten Friday, June 14th. Time range to be announced. Cabot Cheese tasting test. Try out a whole range of cheeses. Friday, June 14th. Location: Cafeteria. Last Day of School for students moving to grades 2, 3, 5, 6 Tuesday, June 18th. Step-Up-Day (last day of school) for students moving to Kindergarten, 1, 4, 7 & 8 Wednesday, June 19th. This is a very brief school day Students moving into grades 4, 7, and 8 arrive at 7:30 AM and depart at 10:30 AM. Children moving into kindergarten and 1st grade arrive at 8:00 AM and leave at 10:00 AM. Last Day of School year on the 19th and is only for those grades doing step up day (see above). For everyone else, the last day of school is the 18th. Graduations for Fairfield, SACS and SATEC will be June 12 and BFA will be June 15 as Scheduled.

May 3rd. Parent Teacher Conferences May 27th. Memorial Day. No School.

Notice: Last Day of School has been moved from the 13th to the 19th.

EVENTS AND NOTICES All registrations for this summer's peer leadership mini-camp are due Monday June 10! We have several spots left for current 6th and 7th-grade students. Because this camp conflicts with other camps, we will only hold SEED camp for two days, July 15 and16. Please return registration forms to Jamilah Vogel.  LINK TO FORM * Humanities Campers will be able to sign up for BOTH camps! * If any student is interested in this program but not able to register for camp, please talk to Ms. Jamilah to request an exception.  Due to expected rain and wet fields, field day plans have shifted to Thursday and Friday Thursday 6/6 9:00-  Explorers and Travelers in the afternoon- 4-6 Communities Friday 6/7 1:30-  Imagination and Investigators We will have students from 4-6 Discovery and 1-3 Imagination that are available to help out at each station during these times. (realizing that 6th grade will be on bike trip Friday) Gr. 7 and 8 had their regular carnival day with pre-k/k on Tuesday (6/4) and will also have access to the field day equipment to use any other day or time between now and the last day of school. Field Day Content! Bring your sneakers (a change of clothes for the water activities might help too!) on Wednesday and be prepared to have some fun! There will be four FUN and FANTASTIC  stations that you will be at for 10 minutes each. *Teachers will be given bracelets to hand out prior to going outside. Each color bracelet will travel together through the stations and each station will be broken up into two groups (making a total of 8 groups/colors outside at a time). There will also be a corresponding flag so colors know where they are located and when to move. Station 1: Sack Relay Race Station 2: Drip Drip Drench -Duck duck goose meets water Station 3: 3 Legged Race -A race where students connect one of their legs with an elastic band Station 4: Sponge Relay -Students line up in a straight line behind a bucket of water -1st person wets a sponge and then passes it over their head to the person behind them -The goal is to get as much of that water into an empty bucket behind the very last person in line by only using the sponge 8th-GRADE TRIP 8th graders are selling raffle tickets for some great prizes (Grand Prize is 4 comfy seats at graduation), all money collected goes to their 8th-grade trip.  Ask an 8th grader if you would like to purchase some.  Thank you for your support 8th graders were given permission slips last Friday for their year-end trip, these need to be signed and returned by May 31st.

PICTURES AND REPORTS WHAT TO EXPECT ON A 6TH GRADE BIKE TRIP This video is from 2017.  The endpoint for the bike trip this year has been changed to a location near the Abbey.  3-minute video. LINK TO VIDEO BAND CONCERT There was an amazing band concert in our large gym on Tuesday evening 6-4-2019. Stringed instruments were featured in the first part of the concert, followed by performances with wind and percussion instruments. A wide range of music was played for the large number of family members that were present. The students and band leader performances were something for us all to be proud of. Unfortunately, only those students easily visible from the sidelines were photographed. LINK TO 137 PICTURES FIELD DAY PICTURES The weather was perfect for the sack races, three-legged races, and various sponge-related games on Thursday. Teams Imagination and Discovery organized and hosted the events. 6-6-2019. LINK TO 60 PICTURES A FEW MORE TRIUMPH SYRUP TASTING PICTURES On Stewardship Day, Triumph members made many pancakes, chopped them up into little portions and placed them into tiny paper cups. Then they took syrup they made with the help of Mr. Branon and poured some over each pancake portion. Most of the other learning communities signed up to drop by the Triumph community and try out their syrup. Taste tests were quick and generally greatly enjoyed. PHANTOMS LACROSSE A number of our students play lacrosse with the Phantoms. Often they end up moving up to the high school teams and playing at a high level. Here is a picture of four SACS athletes. They were heading off to a playoff game the evening this picture was taken. 6-6-2019. Other phantoms are welcome to submit their pictures for the announcements. 33 Jared mitchell  2 Jayden Allen  34 Corey Mcnulty  18 Gavin Bluto