Hello Lakeville Families!
Happy New Year to all that celebrate Rosh Hashanah!
🧡 National Bullying Prevention Month 🧡
October is National Bullying Prevention Month which focuses on clarifying bullying behaviors and emphasizing kindness and respect to all. The term bullying is used frequently, and at times, incorrectly to describe student altercations. The definition of bullying as stated by stopbullying.gov “is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.” While our goal is to keep all children safe, we also do not want to label children incorrectly. It is important that children learn the difference between accidental behaviors that are rude, intentional, one time behaviors that are mean and deliberate, targeted and ongoing behaviors that are truly bullying behaviors. Please remember that if you have any concerns regarding your child’s safety, it is important to contact your child’s teacher, counselor or principal so the school staff can assist in resolving those concerns.
So help us spread Kindness, Acceptance and Inclusion here at Assawompset Elementary School! OCTOBER 16th - WEAR ORANGE!
This Week’s Flyers:
2024-25 FLBC Program Information - FINAL - 202410.pdf
Upcoming Dates:
October 8, Tuesday - PTO Meeting - 7:00 p.m.
Zoom Link - PTO ZOOM LINK
October 11 - Half Day - dismissal is 12:15
October 14 - Columbus Day - NO school
ART
Kindergarten students read the classic, Harold and the Purple Crayon. They drew their fantasy adventures in PURPLE CRAYONS!
Firsties created self-portraits that will be tucked away until they make them again in June. We’ll see how much we change!
Second graders read If the Dinosaurs Came Back. They used black marker to create a background.
Third graders glued a piece of yarn to their papers, then made “echo lines” of different kinds to complete it.
MUSIC
K: This week we reviewed the Veteran’s day song for our assembly next month. We also learned a fun song about pumpkins and played the instruments.
1st: This week we reviewed the Veteran’s day song for our assembly next month. All 1st grader children learned a song about apples and played instruments to work on our steady beat while remembering when and when not to play.
2nd :This week we reviewed the Veteran’s day song for our assembly next month. The 2nd graders reviewed their rhythm patterns and played a rhythm game where they had to identify the rhythm pattern that was called.
3rd: This week we reviewed the Veteran’s day song for our assembly next month. We also worked on our winter concert songs. The 3rd grade performance is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11, 2024 @ 10:00am in the AES gymnasium!
LIBRARY
Coming soon- Storybook Pumpkins! Click on the link to see the flyer! We can’t wait to see your creativity!
In Kindergarten, we talked about the parts of the book and the importance of a call number on the spine. We reviewed how to put a book back on the shelf the correct way and how all the books are in a certain order.
In first grade,students learned the books are in ABC Order by the author’s last name in our Everyone (picture book) Section. We played a finding game to find where certain letters are in the Everyone Section of the library.
In second and third grade, we are learning how to search Destiny, our online catalog, to see what books we have in the library. Students are using call numbers to find the books on the shelves and check them out.
PE
This week in PE we are continuing our football unit in grade 2 and 3. In grade 1 and K we are continuing our tag games unit.
KINDERGARTEN
Thank you to all of the families who came to Open House! It was wonderful to share some of our projects and learning with you.
This week in Kindergarten, we continued to practice letter names and recognizing the alphabet. Our Essential Question for the week was: What can you do? We discussed how each of us knows how to do different things such as being a ballet dancer or running fast. We read the story Kindergarteners Can! and discussed how we do similar and different things in our classrooms. For phonics, we learned to read the letters Mm and Nn and practiced identifying beginning sounds in words. We learned about syllables, too! In Math, we learned about length and height. We practiced comparing objects and describing them as longer, shorter and taller.
GRADE 1
This week, our essential question was: What do you do at your school?”. We read the stories Jack Can and Nan and Sam, which were examples of realistic fiction, and the informational text School Around the World. We are focusing on words with short a and infectional ending -s. In math we learned counting strategies to help us add and subtract. In science we began our unit on seasonal patterns.
GRADE 2
Happy October! In 2nd grade this week the children are continuing to discuss how children around the world are the same and different. We read an informational passage called “Families around the World” and learned some facts about what families do in different countries around the world. In math we are continuing to work on strategies for addition. This week we learned about doubles and doubles +1.
October 2 was Custodian Appreciation Day. We thank our amazing custodians! Thank you Ms. Donna, Mr Chris and Ms Kim!
GRADE 3
It’s October, and in third grade we are learning about cranberries in anticipation of our upcoming field trip. In math we are starting multiplication with basic facts. Please have your children practice their facts at home; most classes have weekly quizzes!
In reading we continue to look at other cultures. From September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, and Scholastic News has some great background information. We love learning about other places and their ways of life.
NURSE’S NOOK
Updates to COVID and Isolation Guidelines:
Guidance has shifted to a symptom-based strategy. Symptoms of a viral respiratory illness can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache.
The new guidance recommends staying home (self-isolating) until your symptoms are improved for at least 24 hours AND you’ve been fever-free for at least 24 hours without fever-reducing medications. If your symptoms come back, worsen, or a fever returns, stay home and away from others again until, for at least 24 hours, both are true: your symptoms are improving overall, and you have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication). Then take added precautions for the next 5 days to avoid exposure to others.
COUNSELOR’S CORNER
Assistance for AES Families
Just a reminder that AES is currently offering assistance to our families through our Backpack Program and Giving Tree Program. The Backpack Program provides families non-perishable food items (pasta, snacks, tuna, etc.) each Friday throughout the school year to assist those with the high cost of groceries. We currently have space for a few more families. Additionally, the Giving Tree offers holiday assistance (gifts for all children in the family) for families who would benefit from that extra support. Please email me at jmckenna@freelake.org if you are interested in these programs. Please note that the Giving Tree is requesting that all gift information be sent to them by the middle of October. I look forward to working with our AES families!
Thank you and have a great day!
Bethany Pineault, Principal
Follow us on Twitter @FLRSDsuper
Follow us on instagram @FLRSDsuper