Birch
Grove
Community School
News Letter
February 14, 2013
DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 18-22 No School
Tuesday, February 19 School Board Meeting at 4:30
From Diane Blanchette:
School Director
Happy Valentines Day! We wish you lots of love and
laughter today and every day!
There is no school next week. Please make sure that
your child(ren) get healthy (plenty of rest, fluids,
tender loving care, and doctor visits, if needed) and
practice healthy habits at home. We would like to see
all of our students and staff back at Birch Grove
healthy and ready to learn after the break!
It is very important that your child read or be read to
over the break. Any reading material will work!! Comic
books, cook books, magazines, the local paper, library
books, any thing at all!! The more fun or interesting
the material, the better! Read with your child! Let
them see that you know that reading is important! Thank
you!
Birch Grove Community School will be offering two
summer programs this year! Campsite Kids (in the
Outdoor Classroom) for K-5 and a summer Saplings
program for 3-5 year olds. Information and registration
for these programs will be put in Take Home Folder in
March. Please look for this, as space for these
programs is limited. Information and registration forms
will go out in Take Home Folders prior to the general
public, so if you want to ensure your child gets
registered, turn your paperwork in early! It is going
to be a great summer at Birch Grove!
Be sure to hear our fourth and fifth grade students on
WTIP (90.7) School News on Thursdays at 9:10 am or go
to
http://www.wtip.org/drupal/content/school-news to hear
it.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not
hesitate to contact us!
School phone: 663-0170
School email: [email protected]
Sheryl Martinson
Saplings Teacher
“I have secret valentine (3x)
I bet you don’t know whoMy valentine is special (3x)
My valentine is you!”
(To the tune of “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”)
There was a lot of valentine fun going on in the
Sapling classroom this week. Pink, red, white with a
little purple thrown in! We talked about what a
valentine is and who could be your valentine. Cute
little cupid made an appearance in a letter review
game. The children practiced identifying one another’s
names while singing a valentine song and passing a
basket of hearts with names on them. The letter of the
week V, fit in nicely with valentine and love. We also
began working on learning the color words. This will
continue for several weeks. We wrapped up Thursday,
Valentine’s Day, with a small celebration. The
children exchanged valentines, played a few games and
decorated cupcakes for their snack. It was a fun and
busy week! Enjoy some quality time with your sweet
From Miss Smith:
Kindergarten and First Grade Teacher
Happy Valentine’s Day! Happy 100th Day! Happy Spring
Break! We have been hard at work this week finishing
up things up before the break. We have been reviewing
skills we learned throughout the year. Kindergarten has
completed their first reading work book this week. We
have gone back and filled in holes on things were not
finished. First grade worked on time, money and
addition. They had a blast reading a variety of non
fiction books about animals. Kindergarten reviewed
measurement tools, patterns, and ordinal numbers. When
we get back from our week off we will be starting new
themes in reading and math for both groups! Hope your
vacation is restful and fun!
From Miss Miller
Second and Third Grade Teacher
This week in 2/3 we have been very busy. In reading
we read a new story, Little Grunt and the Big Egg, by
Tomie dePaola. Students also read a non-fiction piece
about dinosaurs. We continue to work on plural nouns,
possessive nouns, and plural possessive nouns. Whew! We
are busy learning.
In second grade math we continue to practice
multiplication. They keep asking me, "Why are we
learning multiplication in 2nd grade!?" I tell them it's
because they are so smart! They are doing a fantastic
job with the beginning of multiplication.
In third grade we also are working on
multiplication, as well as division. Practice, practice,
practice! We are also continuing to review finding area
and perimeter of shapes.
Today we celebrate Valentine's Day and the 100th
day of school. What an exciting day! I hope you all have
a nice week off from school. :)
From Mr. Chenevert
Fourth and Fifth Grade Teacher
What a week! It started with a snow day, moved through
Valentine’s Day and ended with us getting ready for a
week break! In there, we still managed to fit in a lot
of learning as well.
In reading this week, both groups read stories relating
to the Chinese culture. The 4th graders read The Last
Dragon, a fun story about a boy who goes to live with
his aunt in Chinatown for the summer. The 5th graders
read Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers, a fun
story to read around Valentine’s Day. We have been
doing writing almost everyday in our journals as we work
on expanding upon ideas and adding details too.
In math, both groups are moving along with their units.
The 5th graders are still working with fractions, where
they are comparing them, adding and subtracting them,
and finding common denominators. The 4th graders are
working on different ways to multiply multi-digit
numbers, like the Partial-Products method, the Lattice
method, and the good old Standard method.
Have a wonderful break we’ll see you back here on the
25th!