Secret Snowman
A notice went home today regarding our annual Secret Snowman. If your child
can let me know by tomorrow whether or not they will be participating I would
truly appreciate it. (Sorry for the short notice!)
The nieghborhood raised $955.00 from our yard sale! We are supporting the
charity Cradles to Crayons, purchasing items for use by children. Thank you
for your help with this great activity!
WAX MUSEUM PROJECT
Students will be working on this project in class. The current schedule is
as follows. Please know that the schedule could change along the way.
Collect Resources - December 11
Completed Research - January 8
Resource List Complete - January 15
Prepare Presentation - January 27
Props, Costumes - January 29
As the project goes along, students may find they need to work some at home,
especially if they are falling behind. In particular, students will want to
practice FREQUENTLY and should ask parents, grandparents, siblings, etc. to
watch them present.
Please email me if you have any questions.
Water Cycle Retake this Friday, October 23. Please ask your child if they
are studying for their quiz.
Water Cycle Quiz this Friday, October 16!
Dear Parents,
Neighborhood students will begin collecting data for our USARIEM research
project beginning Monday, October 5. Each child will participate in the
pacer test in the gym and will take their pulse and blood pressure before and
after running. All of this data, charted anonymously, will be used in our
study of physical fitness and activity.
We are looking for some parents volunteers to assist next week, Monday-Friday
from 1:30-2:30. Experience in taking blood pressures is not required (though
helpful!) as we have received four brand new automated blood pressure cuffs.
These cuffs were donated to us by Matt and Tina Phaneuf from Biosurfaces here
in Ashland.
If you are interested in helping any day next week, please contact Ms. Bannon
at ebannon@ashland.k12.ma.us. We cannot guarantee that you will be at the
gym with your child. You must already have a CORI form submitted to the
office. We will be doing this again in January and June so more chances to
help will be available.
Thank you! The Neighborhood Teachers
Conference Schedule
October 13
7:40-7:55 Viswanathan
October 14
1:00-1:15 Mathur
1:15-1:30 Graves
1:30-1:45
1:45-2:00 Getman
2:00-2:15 Leon
2:15-2:30 Conroy
2:30-2:45 Bronstein
October 20
7:40-7:55 Greenstein
October 21
7:40-7:55 Campion
1:00-1:15 Butkus
1:15-1:30 Battles
1:30-1:45 Ahmed
1:45-2:00 Brudner
2:00-2:15 Twomey
2:15-2:30 Paolini
2:30-2:45 Byers
October 28
1:00-1:15 Durro
1:15-1:30 Schultz
1:30-1:45 Travis
1:45-2:00 Marmash
2:00-2:15 Papayannoupolis
2:15-2:30 Abdou
2:30-2:45 Sheridan
I will be contacting those parents directly who do not have a scheduled
conference time.
September 12, 2009
Students went home with their block teacher assignments written in their
agendas. Blocks will begin (Literacy and Math) on Monday, September 14.
September 8, 2009
Some parents are having trouble viewing my website, so I have contacted
TeacherWeb. They have provided me with the following information:
Hi,
You are using one of the new template styles. These can only be updated - or
viewed - properly using a current browser (see
http://support.teacherweb.com/index.php?action=kb&article=159 for a list of
supported browsers.
Parents can check the browser level by clicking onHelp on the browser's menu.
If they are using an older browser, they can update without charge by going
to that browser's website.
If you or your parents need any further assistance, please let us know.
Hopefully this will help. Thank you.
September 1, 2009
Good afternoon parents. I hope you had a wonderful day. I know that I had a
great first day with you sons and daughters! Although the first day is
always too filled with me talking, all the students were great and listened
so attentively. I promised them that tomorrow we would have more "doing" and
less listening :) Just a reminder that we hope each and every student will
purchase a school agenda (price $5). You child has also brought home the
usual beginning of year paperwork for you to complete. I am hoping to
receive all forms by this Thursday (an ambitious goal, I know!) Thank you
for your help with all of this. Also, a very heartfelt thank you for all of
the supplies that were sent in today. We will be needing all those tissues
and wipes, and I thank you all so much. I also am so thankful for the
supplies that came in for the classroom. You are all very generous. Enjoy
hearing about your child's day and I am looking forward to another fun day
tomorrow.
Sheila Fiandaca