Field Day

Monday was Field Day for UMS students! We all took buses over to Airport Park in the morning and spent most of the day taking part in lots of fun physical activity stations set up around the park. Classes made their way through the different stations which were run by different staff members at our school and included things like a bouncy castle, "duck, duck, splash," tug o' war, giant bubble making, a potato sack race, a water bucket relay race, and more! We also had a BBQ lunch where we were joined by many parents and we got a special visit from Champ! Before going back to school we had a visit from the ice cream truck whose driver gave us all popsicles! What a wonderful way to start our last week of school! Below I am attaching a slide show of photos from our class and a video of the day created by our PE teacher, Mr. T.


School Field Day Video by Mr. T

Slideshow generated with Smilebox

Thank you!

Thank you so much to all of the family memebers who were part of the very thoughtful, generous year end gifts I received on Monday! They were perfect and I will enjoy them all very much this summer!

Bike Trip Day!

Today the first grade classes went on our annual bike trip! We had great weather and a great time (getting to leave school to go for a bike ride on a beautiful day is a pretty big deal!). This morning students and teachers from Ms. Barnett's class and our class took a bus to airport park where a group of parents met us with our bikes. We then headed from the park down the bike path from Colchester toward Burlington and had a lovely bike ride along the trail! When we got back to the park we had a picnic lunch followed by recess in the park while the other two first grade classes started their bike ride. What a great day! Thank you so much to all of our parent volunteers. As always, you helped so much in making our outing a success. If you have any photos from today's trip please email them to me and I will post them here!

Third Budget Vote Tomorrow

Our schools need your support! The last vote had a very small voter turn out and it is so important that more of our school community joins the number this time! Please remember to go to the polls tomorrow, June 3. Polls are open from 7am- 7pm at the Colchester Meeting House and Colchester High School.

The Haiku Decks Are Finally on Our Kid Blogs!

After much trial and error I finally have the Haiku Deck presentations the kids made at the end of our unit on Mexico posted on their Kid Blogs! Haiku Deck is a free app that allows people to easily create beautiful slideshow presentations. The kids in our class worked on iPads using the app to create presentations showing some of their learning related to the essential question from our country study unit, which was, "How is our country alike and different from another country?" The presentations came out very well and the kids are really proud of them so please visit your child's blog, look at their presentation, and leave a comment! They check their blogs regularly at school and are always very excited to have new comments. The kids asked me to upload the Haiku Decks to my blog as well so that they will be archived so I am adding them here too (but please check them out additionally on the kid's blogs so you can leave comments for them).


Mexico Torren - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Mustafa - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Hannah - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Laila - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Mackenzie - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Damian - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Garrett - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Jaylee - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Trevor - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Sydney - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Melanie - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Vito - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Zoe - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Dylan - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Longshore - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Lily - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Grant - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Parker Mexico - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Nabeeha - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Mexico Maura - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Rishon Mexico - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Budget Vote Information

The Colchester School District budget vote is June 3, 2014, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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Is your total household income less than $90,000? If so, the tax increase associated with this proposed school budget would be $2.38 or less; learn more in the flyer.

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Please click here for a two-page informational flyer with information about the proposed budget, or please click the image below to access the complete document. It includes information about your schools as well as important tax-related information.

For questions about the budget or for any additional information, please call our administrative offices at (802) 264-5999 or visit www.csdvt.org/budget.

Please vote on June 3!

What do I do if I can’t get to the polling station during those hours?

• Absentee ballots are available by request; simply call the Town Clerk’s Office at (802) 264-5520 to request a ballot.
• Voting can also be done at the Town Clerk’s Office from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

Where are the polling stations?

District 9-1 (comprised of the area east of I-89, the west side of I-89 north of the Malletts Creek inlet, and excluding the south side of Blakely Road) is at the Colchester Meeting House on 830 Main Street in Colchester Village.

District 9-2 (comprised of the area west of I-89 south of the Malletts Creek inlet, including the south side of Blakely Road) is at Colchester High School on 131 Laker Lane (off Blakely Road).

Farewell chicks!

We had so much fun hatching chicks in class but now they are headed back to the farm at UVM! Here is a photo of all of the first grade chicks together on their way home. This afternoon they will get to experience life on the farm. Farewell chicks!