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!

Chick Quadrammas

Here are some photos of the kids working on their chick life cycle Quadrammas today. The white parts are made with Crayola Model Magic and the kids will color their hen and chick on Tuesday once the Model Magic has dried.

Chick Celebration

This afternoon first grade classrooms had chick celebrations before sending the chicks back to the UVM farm. We worked on a quadramma project, making a 4-part display showing the stages of the chick's life cycle. We also had lots of family members join us in class to see the work we were doing and to meet our chicks. Each student posed with a chick for a photo and I am including those photos below. Please let me know if you have trouble getting saving the photo of your child from the slideshow and would like me to email you a copy! On Tuesday we will be able to finish our quadrammas (we had to let them dry today) and bring them home along with the "All About Chicks" books that students made. Students will bring their lapbooks full of learning from the unit home next week after we wrap everything up next week.

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Chick Pics

I have compiled all of our chick photos taken thus far using the great app pic collage and here are the chick pics! The first one shows photos from when the chicks first moved from the incubator to the tank and are still a bit wet. The others were taken throughout the week. We have had so much fun watching the chicks and hope you enjoy our photos too! 

The Hatch!

I am finally ready to post our chick photos (I took all the photos with my iPad and have had to find a way to post such a large number of photos efficiently because it works differently on the iPad than the computer)! These two collages show photos of pipped eggs (eggs with the first hole poked through) and the process of one of our chicks hatching.