IMPORTANT DATES JANUARY Tobacco Educator, Amy Brewer, Visits with 7th & 8th Graders Friday, January 21st. BFA Guidance Staff Visit with 8th Graders - Given course signup sheets for BFA Thursday, January 27th. FEBRUARY Ski Trip/Winter Field Trip. Discovery & Incredibles. Permission and Assumption of Risk forms Must be Completed. Tuesday, February 1st. Walking Wednesday. This is the only Walking Wednesday for February. Wednesday, February 2nd. Link to Map and Walking Times. Ski Trip/Winter Field Trip. Triumph. Permission and Assumption of Risk forms Must be Completed. Tuesday, February 15th. Mid-Winter Break, Town Meeting - No School Monday, February 21st - March 1st. MARCH Ski Trip/Winter Field Trip. Voyagers. Permission and Assumption of Risk forms Must be Completed. Tuesday, March 22nd. Patriotism Contests (Art contest grades 1-8, National Anthem singing contest for ages 6 - 16). Entry deadline: Thursday, March 31st. Link to More Information. Questions and entries can be directed to jcioffi@maplerun.org |
PICTURES IMAGINATION 2ND GRADE OZOBOT STEAM CLASS - RANKIN STEAM teacher, Ms. Rankin, brought mini programmable robots into Ms. Koldys’ 2nd-grade classroom. The robots were designed to follow clear and wide lines drawn in color on paper. They produce light that mimics the colored line they are passing over. In addition, the robots can be triggered to make different movement and light flashing patterns if they pass over specific line patterns. Towards the end of class, the kids discovered that if they wrote their names boldly in cursive the robots would follow their pen stroke accurately. Link to 24 Pictures. Link to 1-minute video showing the Ozobots in action. CAKE SURPRISE Wendy from the Abbey made enough chocolate cake with strawberry icing on Thursday (1-20-2022) for all the students and staff members. It was received with joy. Link to 16 Pictures. ADVENTURERS PREK AT PLAY - KOSKI Students were stationed all around the room where they worked individually or in small groups. The teacher provided support and guidance during their exploratory play. Link to 21 Pictures. |
MESSAGE FOR 7TH & 8TH GRADE FAMILIES On Friday, January 21st Amy Brewer is coming to City School. She is the Coordinator for the Franklin Grand Isle Tobacco Prevention Coalition and Health Educator at Northwestern Medical Center. She will talk with our 7th and 8th grade students about tobacco products and more specifically vaping. In health classes we have started to talk about tobacco and other drugs. Students are learning to identify harmful effects of different substances. We are very fortunate to have Amy speak with our students. - Ms. Garcia" |
8TH GRADERS WILL SELECT BFA COURSES FOR NEXT YEAR Thursday, January 27th The BFA guidance office is coming to our 8th graders and they will be given their course selection sheets to take home and fill out.
BFA would like them back by the end of January. Students can hand them to their teachers or to Ms. Desiree Stevens at the front desk.
Check out this video recorded with Screencastify for 9th-grade enrollment: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/eVRoovjFBiYSbg3YEEWj
Please note that offerings for Readers/writers workshop and Algebra have changed to grade level or accelerated only. |
BOOKS TO CONSIDER READING FROM OUR LIBRARY Have you set a goal for yourself in the new year? January is a great time to make a resolution and this month we will be highlighting books in our library that focus on goal setting and growth. Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha's dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. Patricia Polacco will never forget him, and neither will we. Vera Williams tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a big jar in hopes that they can someday buy a new chair for their apartment, the kind of chair her mother deserves after being on her feet all day in the Blue Tile Diner. Into the jar also goes the money Grandma saves whenever she gets a bargain at the market. There hasn't been a comfortable place to sit in the apartment since a fire in their previous apartment burned everything to "charcoal and ashes." Friends and neighbors brought furniture to their new apartment downstairs, but no one brought anything big or soft or comfortable. Finally, the jar is full, the coins are rolled, and in the book's crowning moment, mother, daughter, and Grandma search four different furniture stores, and after carefully trying several chairs, like Goldilocks, they find the chair they've been dreaming of at last. Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. Jabari is making a flying machine in his backyard! “It’ll be easy. I don’t need any help,” he declares. But it doesn’t work! Jabari is frustrated. Good thing Dad is there for a pep talk and his little sister, Nika, is there to assist, fairy wings and all. |
WINTER SPORTS All basketball practices for today (Friday the 21st) are canceled.
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MEALS Link to the Abbey Website with menus
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