Weekly News
May
2, 2008
From the Principal’s Desk
From the Principal’s
Desk
Happily,
May is finally upon us. This is
typically the busiest month of the school year for staff and students as we
suddenly realize the weeks are rapidly ticking away. Hopefully, we can all maintain our energy levels and a
positive attitude as the prospect of summer beckons on the horizon.
Despite
a spritz of a stray raindrop or two, students participated in their yearly
Green Up Day efforts to clean up the road near the school as well as the
transfer station area and around the school building. Thank you students for your hard work. It is this kind of shared
responsibility for the community that truly makes a difference.
Parents
of 4th grade students may want to take note that one new addition to
the calendar is that during the week of May 12th we will be giving
the first annual NECAP science assessment to 4th graders only. More info will follow next week. Please try not to schedule doctor
appointments during that week.
Preparations
for Living History are well under way.
Today, students learned the name of the real-life character they will
become and learned a bit about their family and life in 1759. In addition, Mrs. Kahle’s class taught
the rest of the school a fun game that children would have played in that time
period. Before you know it, the 23rd
will be here!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser for the School: Help Needed
In order to fund extras at the school like artist in residence programs, the ski program, book fairs, special classroom grants and other fun things, the Parents' Club raises money. The biggest fundraiser of the year is the Annual Plant Sale. Each class also fundraises their own portion of the event (bake sale/seedling sale/car wash/bottle drive). To get ready for the plant sale, we need help, please.
Saturday May 3 from 12-5 for potting and marking-Cathy's house-143 Channel Road
Sunday May 4 from 10-5 for potting and marking-Cathy's house-143 Channel Road
Friday May 9 from 8 am -11 am set up plant sale at Old Firehouse
Please come and help for an hour or two or three or more. There is a tremendous amount of work involved in potting and marking as many as 2000 plants (Saturday and Sunday) then moving them to the Old Firehouse (Friday). Cathy is looking to retire, and new blood is needed if this fundraiser is to continue beyond this year. No gardening experience or knowledge required, and please bring your kids along if you would like.
Call Cathy at 446-2928 or email eworks@vermontel.net with any questions. Thanks for your help.
Wee Folk News
Be
careful coming down to the Wee Folk room-our Fort has been set up and is being
guarded carefully. We have had fun
playing in our pretend period fort and house. A great deal of learning has taken place around this play
including food, clothing, discipline, manners, and chores of the time period. It has been great to see what they are
learning carried over to play. Mr.
G added to the excitement as we were fitted for our living history
outfits. He also showed us how
they would have started a fire back then.
We also made time lines of our own selves thinking about when we were
babies compared to now. Since corn
was such a popular food of the time, we made Hasty Pudding. All you need is boiling water, corn
powder, and anything else you might want to add to it. Our hasty pudding had some in it. Our modern day colonists agreed that
they would rather take a trip to the Tinmouth Snack Bar for something sweet!
Our
Kindergartners just finished writing and editing their first drafts of their
narrative stories. I would like to
invite everyone to join us on Friday morning, May 16th at 8:20 for an author’s
tea. If anyone would like to
volunteer to bring in beverages or breakfast treats for our tea, please let me
know. Remember, no nuts for the
treats! This will be a time for
the students to share their published work. Everyone is invited as we celebrate
our accomplishments.
Thanks
to all of our students and families who presented their PPP’s this week. We learned about frogs from Jenee,
goats from Alicia, dolphins from Kasey, and horses from Colby. Our frog guest was so popular; we
decided to have a frog day including frog stories, frog puppets, frog songs,
and even a frog game. We even
learned leapfrog. If the colonists
could play it, then so can we!
News from the Fantastic Fifth and Sixth Grade
The
month of May has arrived. With this comes a great deal of activity. Living
History, the Montreal trip, finishing up writing portfolios, preparing for
graduation, the plant sale and several others.
In
class this week we began planning our trip. Students were paired together and
each given an attraction to find on the map. They then had to reference the
metro map and write down directions of how to get from the hotel to the
attraction. These pairs will lead us to the attractions during our trip.
Remember that next week (Friday), we will be going to the DMV to get our photo
identifications. A birth certificate is required to get the photo id.
In
writing this week, the students worked on essays related to Living History.
Some were focusing their writing on a general informational essay while others
are writing a persuasive essay about the impact of the conflict and its
relationship to the future of America.
Please
remember that next weekend is the annual plant sale, car wash and bottle drive.
We really need everyone to help with this fundraiser.
More news will be
coming home on Monday regarding student participation.
Primary News:
For
living history we researched the question, what did colonial homes look like?
We read books and articles, looked at pictures, checked the Internet, and
played a game to help us form answers.
Then students worked in teams to construct murals of the exterior and
interior of a colonial home. We
also began setting up our dramatic play center as if a home of 1758.
Brian and
Savannah play a game of draughts.
On
Thursday we took a trip to the Hepburn Pond. Spring was our final season to observe and use our senses to
learn about pond life. Other than
a few wet feet, all had a good time!
Many thanks to the Hepburn family for letting us use their pond and to
our adult helpers: Helen Mango, Shauna Dotson, Juli Dixon, Lynne Keyes, Bess
Lewis and Sarah Smith.
Amanda J.
shows off a salamander and some fur she found at the Hepburn Pond.
The area surrounding the school and up Bliss Road
should be looking better – today we did some trash cleanup in anticipation of
tomorrow’s Green-Up Day.
Have
a wonderful weekend!
3/4 News
In music we sang “Paper of Pins” (a song we learned in
class for Living History) for Ms. Heath.
We had a recorder assessment.
We are going to sing God Save the King (tune: “My Country Tis of Thee”).
In gym we are getting ready for a fitness test. It was about stretching our arm and leg
muscles.
In Living History we learned a new game from
1758. It is called Terni
Lapilli. The mat is made out of
fake deerskin. Mr. G. fitted the girls
for their costumes and he is getting skirts for us. We even watched a movie about Fort #4 when Middletown
Springs went there.
Have a great weekend.
Reporter: Megan
Max and Kaelob
try out their Terni Lapilli strategies.
TEACHER NOTE: May 10 is the
Famous Tinmouth Plant Sale. I
would like each student to participate behind the counter at our bake sale if
they can. I learned last year that
we have some great salespeople in this class!
Baked Goods
Needed
Please help out
the 3/4 class by donating baked goods for our Bake Sale at the
Famous Tinmouth
Plant Sale on
May 10
Thank You
PLANT SALE FUNDRAISER
The
21st Annual “Famous Tinmouth Plant Sale” AND Bake Sale/ Car Wash/Bottle Drive
will be held Saturday May 10 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in beautiful downtown
Tinmouth to benefit the Tinmouth School.
Hardy perennial flower plants will fill the lawn at the Tinmouth Town
Office, most of which have been raised organically. The 1/2 class has raised annual veggie and flower seedlings;
delicious treats will be for sale to benefit the 3/4 class; and the 5/6 class
will hold a bottle drive and a car wash. Come get flowers, shrubs, treats and a
sparkle shine for your car.
Come early for the best selection of organic native and nursery grown
hardy perennials. Plants can be viewed prior to the 8:00 a.m. starting bell,
but no selections or purchases will occur before 8 a.m. Please bring your own
boxes or containers to carry plants. The Tinmouth sale is well known and
appreciated due to its large selection of hardy perennials for both sun and
shade (2,000 plants in 2007), reasonable prices and huge variety. Due to popular demand, we will keep the
price per plant at $3 this year.
If it will grow in Tinmouth, it will thrive anywhere in Rutland
County. Experienced gardeners are
on hand to answer questions and help with plant choice. All proceeds benefit Tinmouth School.
For more
information, call the school at 446-2458 or Cathy Reynolds at 446-2928.
GREEN-UP DAY - Saturday
May 3
Once again, there will
be two ways to Green-up Tinmouth this year.
·
The MAIN EVENT will happen in Tinmouth on Saturday
May 3 from 8:00-11:00. This is
the traditional Green-Up Extravaganza with lots of garbage and a bit of fun
mixed in. Stop by the Transfer Station for coffee and donuts between 8:00 am and
9:00 am AND to get bags and coordinate pick-up areas. We will have the ceremonial dumping of the trash,
awards for the most unique, most disgusting and other categories of trash and
will serve ice cream at 10:30.
Keep your eyes open for those special roadside items… Photos will certainly be taken…Last
year’s most amazing find was hundreds of pieces of a 20 page letter, some of
which was pieced together, leaving a mystery.
·
For those who cannot make the MAIN EVENT there is
always the “do-it-yourself” option.
Stop by the Town Office to sign up for a section of road to be “greened”
at another time. You will receive
special Green-Up bags. Roadside
trash collected during Green-Up can be deposited at the Transfer Station during
regular hours for no charge. We
all appreciate clean roadsides and this way everyone can do their part if the
main event poses a scheduling conflict.
·
Thank you to the students of the Tinmouth Elementary
School for their clean up efforts on Friday, May 2nd.
For more information
call Ed Hasenohr at 446-2676, Doug Fontein at 446-2928 or Nelson Jaquay at 446-2367
or Holly Noble at 446-3575.