First Day of School Tomorrow!

I hope that you are all getting excited for the first day of school tomorrow! I know I am! Families, please remember to send your child to school tomorrow with a backpack including snack/lunch, a water bottle, and their green folder (if you picked it up at our Meet'n Greet or Open House -- if not it will come home for the first time tomorrow). Please also remember to send in any signed forms received in either your summer letter or the green folder, especially the blog permission slip (so that I can start posting photos of our class on this blog tomorrow afternoon)! Please remember, I will not post photos of the children until I receive their signed blog permission slips so please remember to send those in. The kids always love seeing themselves on the blog and I know that you will love seeing them too! See you (at least the kids) tomorrow morning! I am looking forward to a great year!

Welcome Back to School!

It's hard to believe but it is almost time to start another year  of school at UMS! I have been working hard to get our  classroom ready for the beginning of the year and am very  excited to see all of you soon! The other first grade teachers  and I hope that you will join us at one or both of our  upcoming events before the school year starts! This is a great  way to meet your teacher and your new classmates and take  home some important information about the start of the  school year. The two first grade events are... 8/21/2014 6:30 PM 1st grade popsicle social  (this will be held on the playground if the weather is good or  in the cafeteria if there is rain)

8/26/2014 8:00 AM 1st and 2nd grade open house  (this will be held in the classroom so you can check out our  room before school starts!) I hope to see you there!

Happy Last Day of School!

Today is our last day of first grade and this morning we have "step up day" where students will get to go meet and spend some time with their teachers and classes for next year! Our class made an iMovie highlighting some of the things we do in first grade for me to show to the kindergarteners when they come in to visit me today. I am attaching it below.

"In First Grade" iMovie

HAVE A WONDERFUL, RESTFUL, SUNNY, SAFE, AND FUN SUMMER!

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.