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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Upcoming Events!

Events For May   (updated 4/28)

·      5/1 Sock Hop-6:00pm
·      5/1 Grd 3 to Lucky Strikes
·      5/13 PTO Baskets Due
·      5/16 Whale Bash 11:00am-3:00pm
·      5/19 Grd  3 Sweeney Adventure
·      5/20 Grd 3 & 4 Spring Concert 7:00-8:00pm
*Students arrive at 6:45pm*
·      5/22 Grd 3 to Mystic Seaport 9:15-3:15
·      5/28 Grd 3 Sweeney/Uconn


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

PTO Baskets


The PTO is having a fundraiser!
Each grade is putting together a basket to be auctioned off at the Big Whale Bash!

Grade 3 Theme: 
A Rainy Day Basket
Items Due: May 11

Monday, April 20, 2015

Upcoming Events

April 20, Town Meeting
April 28, Science Fair

May 1, Bowling Trip to Lucky Strikes
May 5-14, SBAC testing--9:30-10:30 daily
May 22, Mystic Seaport field trip
May 28, Field trip through ALTRUSA to UConn

*A field trip to Sweeney School in Willimantic pending*

Welcome back!

Welcome back, families! We hope you enjoyed your vacation. The kids were bubbling over with stories of their break and they all looked about a foot taller than before they left! It's a sign that Spring is definitely upon us and we have entered the final push of the school year.

As we all acclimated back into our school routine we continued work on our nonfiction reading unit. Students have been learning strategies for reading nonfiction texts such as, using text features to determine the topic, determining the main idea with supporting details and using prior knowledge to make sense of new learning. Here are a few pictures of our work...

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Repelling

In PE students are practicing repelling so they will be ready to scale the ropes course later in Spring!