Holidays

Boy did we have a great day today!!!  Students did a FANTASTIC job with their Cultural Holiday stations!!  We started in Vasanthi's room this morning and learned about 6 holidays and then continued in our classroom this afternoon.  Students enjoyed books, crafts, songs, and treats!  All students worked together to make this a success and boy was it ever!!  The stations were engaging and interesting.  The students loved it!!!

We ended our day in music class sharing our musical talents!  This group of students is truly talented in so many ways!!!

Happy Holidays everyone!!

December!

Dear Families

  Hello and Happy Friday!!  I hope I will see many of you tomorrow at the Craft Fair!! Endeavor is ready with over 20 pies coming in and over 40 cement "Peaceful Creations"!!  This will also be your last chance (for 2015) to get SCS clothing!!!

The week has flown by!  We've been doing a lot of World Geography, focusing on 2 main things (so far): the 5 Themes of Geography (Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions) and Landforms.  I bet you heard about our awesome new National Geographic Atlases!!  

Students also continued their work with fractions.  One focus this week was on how to use equivalent ratios to help figure out the "Better Buy".  Students could use ratio tables to find a unit price for a pricing scenario, or two compare prices for equal amounts of items (like granola bars).  It was pretty cool to see students using this strategy to compare prices.  Take them grocery shopping with you this weekend!!! :)

And of course, we worked hard in writing again this week.  Students continue to make their first drafts better by improving evidence and finding places in their writing to include quotes.  We are making our arguments stronger!!

And i'm sure you heard about the great trip to the Flynn!!! Students were really excited about the performance of Percy Jackson!!! I hope to see many of them reading this series now!! (if they haven't already...)

Don't forget to check out See Saw!  

Thank you for all of your support with the Craft Fair!!  What a fun way to support our school!

:)

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Cara Crowther
5th Grade Teacher
Endeavor Team
Shelburne Community School

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Grateful and giving Friday

Dear Families

The week flew by and ended with lots of smiles! Today students celebrated all of the supplies that were donated for the Ronald McDonald House!

These will be delivered next Monday, just in time for Thanksgiving!

Students also celebrated each other by sharing compliments with each other.  This was a mindfulness activity. 

Everyone left in good spirits today! They also posted some of their hard work on SeeSaw today, be sure to check it out!

Have a safe and enjoyable break!

Cara

P.S: students will be going to the Flynn on Tuesday, December 1.  Students will need a lunch because we'll be gone during our scheduled lunch time.

Also, the next work period for the craft fair will be during the day so that all students can help!

Shelburne Museum- Eyes on the Land

Students had a fantastic time being critical observers at the Shelburne Museum last week. They also hot to create!!

Shelburne Farms Field Trip- teamwork and Ecology!!

Leaf Pack Data

We had an awesome time exploring the contents of our leaf packs today!

Yesterday, we studied, discussed and compared our biological, physical, and chemical data with the data Vasanthi's class collected during our field trip last week.  

Today, the leaf packs were collected and we got to spend over an hour just examining the biological data collected.  Our two leaf packs were packed with Macroinvertebrates! Here are a few photos:

We could have spent all evening examining and discussing our findings! Instead, we had to go to PE and then home, so we'll share noticings and numbers tomorrow.  We'll also get together with Vasanthi's class to compare our leaf pack data.  What a way to study ecosystems!

We've also been working on reviewing the relationship between multiplication and division.  

Have you heard about the incredible shrinking carrots?!

We've been reading from Storyworks this week and worked together to create a reading response focused on theme. It was HARD work, but we all contributed good ideas. Students have a copy of it in their reponse journals.

Good to see many of you at conferences this week, I'll see the rest of you next Tuesday!

Cara

Conference Schedule and other announcements

From our Unified Arts teachers:
Please join the Art, Music, Physical Ed., and World Language teachers for our Unified Arts Night. It will be on Tuesday October 200th, from 6:30 - 7:30 pmmm.  Please meet in the cafeteria at 6:30 pm for a brief introduction. Students are encouraged to attend this event with you, and share some of the great things they are learning in their UA classes.

From the PTO

Come out and support a local business and the Shelburne Community School PTO at the Flying Pig Bookstore onOctober 23-25.  The Flying Pig will give 20% of all book proceeds to the SCS PTO over those dates when you mention SCS.

We look forward to seeing many of you there on October 23-25 to stock up on all your upcoming holiday book needs!

From our Wellness Committee

October is the Month of Walking Wednesdays!!  Bus riders will have the option of joining this year too!!

Conference Schedule

October 12th Conferences

Time	Name
12:20 - 12:40	McClellan/Brumstead
12:40-1:00	Williams
1:00-1:20	Levinthal
1:20-1:40	Oppenheimer
1:40 – 2:00
2:00-2:20	Cleveleand
2:20- 2:40
2:40-3:00	BREAK
3:00-3:20	Epstein
3:20-3:40	Machanic
3:40-4:00	Miller
4:00-4:20	Marx/Smith
4:20-4:40	Trapeni
4:40-5:00	Pickard

Tuesday 10/13		Tuesday 10/20
3:10- 3:30	Morris	3:10- 3:30	Dahir
3:30 – 3:50	Halliburton	3:30 -3:50	Gove
3:50 – 4:10	Normand	3:50 – 4:10	Erickson
4:10- 4:30	Allen	4:10- 4:30	MacFaden
		4:30 – 5:00	Connery