March PTO Minutes

PTO NOTES & NEWS - MARCH 2013

Congrats to Thomas Daley our SCS SPELLING BEE CHAMPION.  He will compete in the state bee at St. Michaels College on March 13.

We discussed HOW PRINCIPALS CAN BEST COMMUNICATE WITH FAMILIES.  Most people felt that email is good but have a direct link to newsletter rather than a PDF.

Tickets for the popular DYNAMIC DATES fundraiser will go home soon.  Drawing for dates on April 1.

The FLOWER POWER fundraiser will run from April 5 - April 15.  Consider buying your spring bulbs through this local company!

On March 26 all middle school students will go to Williston to view the documentary "WRETCHES & JABBERERS", the story of 2 men with autism.  Back at SCS they will participate in an afternoon of activities around this subject.  THEY NEED PARENT VOLUNTEERS to help with this day.  If you're interested please contact Randy Sweeney (sweeneyrs@gmail.com) or Alice Brown (aliceandy@myfairpoint.net).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT for teachers has recently included a workshop on education responses to children who have experienced trauma, intruder drill training (including a drill during the school day), training in the new Connected Math program, integration of arts in the curriculum and tech integration.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

• Fri. March 15 and Sat. March 16 @ 7p - Middle School Play - "Once on This Island" - at Town Hall.
• Wed. March 20, 6:30 - 8:30 - Middle School Dialogue Night.  Subject is stress & anxiety and will be lead by students in Project LEAD.
• April 8 - 11 - Artist in Residence Jon Gailmor works with primarily 5th graders and also some K-4th grade classes.  5th grade performance on evening of April 11.
• May 10 - Comedy Night fundraiser at the Old Lantern in Charlotte.  This is being put together by Josie Leavitt and will benefit the Shelburne and Charlotte PTO's.  Tickets on sale soon.

HELP WANTED:

• PTO Co-Chair to work with Randy Sweeney.  Contact her (sweeneyrs@gmail.com) for details.

THANK YOU:

• To everyone who helped make "Get Out The Vote" calls/emails and to everyone who voted!

More Poetry and Geometry

It was a pleasure to meet with families this week for conferences to celebrate your children's learning.  Thanks so much to everyone for coming in for these, even on the snow day!

We began a new Fundations unit this week and are learning how to divide syllables.  We have continued with poetry during Reader's and Writer's Workshops.  These units will finish up next week and we will move on to an opinion writing unit in Writer's Workshop and a unit about reading tricky words in Reader's Workshop. We will continue with our unit about geometry in math.  This week we spent some time creating 9-patch quilts and were introduced to rotational symmetry.
Mark your calendars for April 16th @ 6:30 pm for the 1/2 Music Concert!

Spring Conferences

Spring conferences will be held this Monday, March 18th and Tuesday, March 19th after school.  Please remember to sign up if you haven't already done so.
We have spent the week exploring shapes and learning about 3 dimensional shapes in math.  Some of our new math words are polygon, polyhedron, rectangular prism, triangular prism, cube, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, vertex, face and edge.  We will continue with our geometry unit next week.
We have spent the week reading and writing poetry.  We have learned about Acrostic, Cinquain and Haiku poetry.  We have been learning about words with five sounds in Fundations.  Please encourage your child to continue to practice his/her trick words at home.
We completed the CSSU Science Inquiry Task this week.  Our task required us to sort rocks in a variety of ways to help ECHO create a Geology Museum Display.  When we were finished we had to write a letter to ECHO describing our recommendations for their display.  Everyone worked hard and enjoyed this task.
We also enjoyed a terrific Hands On Nature lesson about Owls today.  We learned about all the ways Owls have adapted to their environment and had an opportunity to dissect owl pellets.  Thank you to all our Hands On Nature parents for this great lesson!
We look forward to our visit from author/illustrator Loren Long on Tuesday.  I look forward to meeting with everyone during conferences to celebrate your child's learning!

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