Bike Trip

We had an awesome first grade bike trip on the Colchester Bike Path today! Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful volunteers who helped make the day a success!

Field Day

June 6 is Field Day! Field Day activities will be taking place all morning at Airport Park, ending with a BBQ lunch there. I have recieved all BBQ lunch order forms for children and families in our class. Lunch will be staggered with two classes eating at a time, with Ms. Barnett's class and ours eating at 11:20. If you are planning to join us for lunch on Field Day, please meet us at the park around that time. Students will be bussed to the park and then back to school after all of our Field Day fun!

Planting Potatoes for the Food Shelf

Today all four first grade classes had the special opportunity of planting potatoes for the Colchester Food Shelf (which is also our neighboring building!). Earlier this school year all classes at UMS collected food for the food shelf then brought it over so that we could learn about what the food shelf does in our community. It is very special that we are able to walk right next door and collaborate with the food shelf in our town! Today we learned how to plant potatoes and planted them in a patch right behind the food shelf building, which you can see in one of the photos below. In the fall, when our first graders have become second graders, they will get to return to the potato patch and dig up all the potatoes to donate to the food shelf! Below are some great photos of our class in action!

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Book Buddy Bags

Please return all book bags from the first grade reading program to school next week. This week was our final week reading with parent volunteers and we thank them so much for coming in to read with us all year long! It is now time for all of the first grade reading program books to go back into the cart for summer!

Some Friday News!

Whew! What a week. We have done so much! Yesterday the whole school had a big 4 Winds Day to wrap up our 4 Winds program for the year (thank you so much, Jenn and Scott, for being our 4 Winds volunteers all year!) and today we had a fantastic assembly called Jump With Jill. Jill is a registered dietician and also a musician/performer who did a high energy, very entertaining and engaging presentation to the whole school about healthy eating. Make sure to ask your child about this and if you want to learn more, go to Jumpwithjill.com. Finally today we had our Chick Celebration where many family members came to meet our 8 baby chicks and see all of the wonderful projects students have done during this unit. Unfortunately I discovered too late that since I had taken so many photos of the chicks this week, my camera battery was dead for the activities today! This week was full of end-of-year work and a lot of fun!

We are in the newspaper!

Check out this week's Colchester Sun! It features and article about UMS students donating to the food shelf and one of the photos I took of our class at the food shelf is on the front page of the paper! I recieved mine in the mail yesterday so keep an eye out for it!

My Students Holding the Chicks!

This afternoon once our chicks were fluffed up and running around I let the students hold them for a photo. Seeing how carefully the kids hold them and how excited they are put a huge smile on my face and I am excited to share that with you! These photos are so adorable. Parents, if you would like me to email you a copy of the photo of your child with the chick to have on your computer, please email and let me know.

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