Village Voice
January 4, 2017
January 4, 2017
Happy New Year!
I hope eveyone had a wonderful holiday vacation and was able to rest and enjoy times with friends and family. I enjoyed my week off creating new, and enjoying old, family traditions with my husband and two children.
January is an exciting time in curriculum for primary schools. Students take right off with learning experiences. So much growth occurs though the reading and writing process from January through June. I encourage you all to revisit routines and expectations at home and challenge yourself to read and write daily with your children. Research proves how successful students are when families read and write with children (no matter what age) each day. We all get out of routines at times and January is a great time to reflect and remind us how and what to prioritize.
Happy New Year!
~April Noble
January is an exciting time in curriculum for primary schools. Students take right off with learning experiences. So much growth occurs though the reading and writing process from January through June. I encourage you all to revisit routines and expectations at home and challenge yourself to read and write daily with your children. Research proves how successful students are when families read and write with children (no matter what age) each day. We all get out of routines at times and January is a great time to reflect and remind us how and what to prioritize.
Happy New Year!
~April Noble
Important Dates in January:
January 10: School Committee Meeting: Budget Review January 15: VES/CRES parent group meeting at VES @9:15 January 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: no school January 18: School Committee Meeting: Budget Review January 27: Grades close for second quarter January 30: (tentative) School Committee Meeting: Budget Review The staff at VES wish you all a wonderful 2017!! |
Creation Station at VESThe Creation Station has seen lots of engineering in the month of December. Shelf Elf lost his beach umbrella and has been sooooo hot at the "beach". Kindergarteners have been busy building shelters for Shelf Elf and measuring the temperature inside their shelters to see if they cooled him off. Shelf Elf is much cooler and happier thanks to some creative kindergarten teams. The kindergarten classes have also been very clever about trapping that tricky Gingerbread Man. Their traps and escape vehicles were amazing.
First graders are getting a look at the original video of the first moon landing. They are building their own vehicles to take them to the moon and beyond. Who knows, when our kids grow up, they might be the engineers of the future helping us discover new worlds! Take the Creation Station 3,2,1 Challenge at home. Take 3 toilet paper tubes 2 popsicle sticks and 1 straw What can you create using all of the above materials. (Remember you can't use more that the number shown.) You can use any other materials in your house. Create something and take a picture of it. It can be whatever your imagination thinks of. Send us the picture in the library and we will post it outside the Creation Station. Send pictures to [email protected]. |
Bundle up
Please be sure your child is prepared for the outdoors. We try to go outside EVERY day, unless the national weather chart indicates it is unsafe. Children need boots, snowpants and jackets in order to play on the snow. Please remember to send hats and gloves too.