Mr. Ward’s Message:
This week brought many staff members paying their dues for the FUN RUN Challenge. If the students raised over $25,000.00 then staff members would get colored dusted. Well, the challenge was accepted and WON by the students. As a result, many staff members got color dusted. See some photos below…
Nurse Allie Mrs. Vigers & Mr. Magee Mr. Strauss & Mr. Ward Miss Bonnie & Travis
FES News and Happenings:
As shared last week FLRSD has a SEPAC Council that meets on a monthly basis and membership is offered to all parents of children with disabilities and other interested parties. Monthly meeting dates are outlined below. All meetings take place in the ARHS Library beginning at 6:30 PM. Please be advised that the first meeting has had a date change.
November 9 - DATE CHANGE from 11/15 to 11/9.
PTO Corner:
The next PTO Meeting will take place on Monday, November 14th from 6:30 - 7:30 PM. The meeting will be both in-person and virtual. The virtual meeting invitation will be shared as the meeting date approaches.
FES PTO website is...https://freetownelementarypto.weebly.com/
Attendance Matters Weekly Update:
Goal: 94% of the FES student population will attend school daily.
The September average student daily attendance was 95%. Goal achieved!
The October average student daily attendance was 95%. Goal achieved!
Let’s keep that momentum going into the month of November.
November 1-4 (excluding 11/4): 94%...Goal Met!
Upcoming events:
November 11: No School for students - Veterans Day
November 14: November PTO Meeting beginning at 6:30 PM
November 17: Cup Stacking Night
November 23: Early Release Day for students - Dismissal at 12:15 PM
November 24 & 25: No School - Thanksgiving Recess
News and Happenings around the classrooms:
Preschool: This week in preschool, we enjoyed celebrating Halloween! On Monday, the preschoolers wore their costumes and played various Halloween games in our classroom stations. On Wednesday, we watched staff members as they were “color dusted” by students in classes that raised the most during our Fun Run Fundraiser. Preschoolers also showed off their smiles during our annual picture day!
Kindergarten: What a week in kindergarten! We started our week with Halloween festivities. In our costumes we completed a variety of fun Halloween themed centers. We also spent some time outside to participate in our Fun Run Color Dusting reward. Our Fundations letters were d and s, our high frequency word was “see”. In math, we counted 8 and 9 and in science we finished up our pumpkin unit.
Grade 1: This week in first grade we worked on unit 3 week 2 in FUNdations. We worked on digraphs th, sh, wh, ch, and ck. For comprehension we reviewed retelling stories and asking and answering questions in a text along with visualization. In writing we are working on responding to a text. In math we worked on number partners for 6 and 7. In science we opened up pumpkins and had a great time digging out the seeds and pulp.
Grade 2: This week in second grade we worked on determining story elements in fantasy stories. In Fundations we learned about multisyllabic words. In Math we worked with strategies to help us solve 1-step word problems using addition and subtraction. Children have been encouraged to share a variety of strategies in order to solve the same number story or word problem. In writing we worked on developing our Realistic Fiction writing.
Grade 3: We had a very exciting week in third grade with Halloween fun, pumpkin seed math and Fun Run incentives. In reading we read a realistic fiction story called Yoon and the Jade Bracelet. In writing we began writing the openings to our personal narratives. In social studies we read about how Wampanoags lived in the summer and spring seasons. In math, we made a multiplication flip book showing all the multiplication strategies we have learned.
Art: Kindergarteners listened to When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins. We discussed how a shape is different from a line and they drew original drawings while using shapes to represent objects. Grade 1 finished a few projects including painting their Joan Miro inspired drawings. Grade 2 is learning about the Mexican Folk tin art. They are creating a paper Mexican mirror. Grade 3 is learning about positive and negative space and art and creating complex cut paper positive/negative shape designs.
Physical Education: This week we started the sport where children are champions: Cup Stacking. Students in kindergarten and first grade learned how to walk the cups, and complete the 333 stack. Second and third graders walked the cups, stacked the 333, shuffled the cups, and tried the 66 stack. If there was time at the end of class, students had free-stack time.
Keep a look out for an email with more information about our K-3rd grade family Cup Stacking night which will be held on Thursday, November 17th
Music: This week, students K-3 have started the 1st week of their unit on improvising. Grade 3 will begin improvising movements in Mama Lama, Grade 2 will explore improvising using mallet instruments. Grade 1 and Kindergarten will improvise with arioso type songs.
Library: During library class this week, kindergarten and first grade students explored databases including the Britannica Fundamentals database and the Gale for Elementary database. Second and third grade students learned how to use the Blockly app for the iPad and learned how to write a code using the Blockly language for the Dash and Dot robots.