The Week of May 30, 2023

 

Upcoming Events 

End of Year K-3 Field Trip to Mill River Park- June 8th 

Please be sure to send in your $5.00 donation per child and Mill River Field Trip Form by June 6th

K-3 students are excited for a day of hiking, games and creemees! Students will leave WES around 9:30. Students will need to bring a lunch from home, or sign up for a bagged lunch from the cafeteria.  Please complete the google form linked below.  Let me know if you are having any trouble viewing the google form and I will send home a paper copy! 

Mill River End of Year Field Trip Google Form

6th Grade Graduation Ceremony

Waterville Elementary School

June 13, 2022

6:00 PM

Last Day of School

June 14th

Classroom Snacks/Water bottles 

The end of the year gets very busy and hot. I encourage students to drink lots of water throughout the day and we have a short snack from 9:20-9:30 each day. Please work with your student to pack a snack and water bottle each day! WES no longer provides snacks at this time, and I am completely out of my emergency snacks. 

Preview Day 

The K-3 team has finalized our classroom placement for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. As a team, we meet together to discuss each student. We take into consideration both social/emotional goals, and academic strengths and needs. We work to provide each student with the best experience and support we can. 

Students will get a chance to visit their next year's classroom. Please remember, WES is a small school with multi-age classrooms. 

We do break students into grade level groups for math and spelling instruction. 

If your child remains in the 1-2 classroom next year, they are STILL MOVING ON TO second grade.  

Big Buddies & Little Buddies 

On Tuesday, we spent time with our Big Buddies from the 4-5 classroom! Together we enjoyed playing Drip, Drip, Drop a variation of Duck, Duck, Goose, but with water! 

Properties of Matter

This week, we finished up our inquiry into heating and cooling types of matter. Together, we drew and wrote our observations about different types of matter. We predicted what would happen to different types of matter when it was heated. Would it return to a usable form or not? We began to form a claim about heating and cooling matter. 

First Grade Math

In first grade math, we wrapped up our last Number Corner unit of study. Students enjoyed solving +10, -10, +1, -1 mystery equations with double digit numbers. Each day, we solved an equation and colored the corresponding square on our 120 chart revealing a hidden picture. On Thursday, we were able to figure out what our picture was! A dragonfly! 

Students were working hard on their end of year math assessment. Each student should feel proud of their persistence and growth this year! When students finished a section of their assessment we played some of our favorite math games from the year. We call these games our "Hall of Fame" games! 

Even Steven is an all time favorite game! 

2D and 3D shape Problem Solvers 

Students enjoyed working with pattern blocks creating composite shapes, and reviewing names and properties of 2D shapes. We also reviewed 3D shapes and really enjoyed working with our polydron building blocks. 

Writers' Workshop

This week in writing, students selected their favorite opinion letter, and worked on revising it. Students reread their piece to be sure if made sense and added any needed details.  We will work on editing and typing our letters in the upcoming week. Students will celebrate their writing with their Big Buddies and will be sure to bring home their fancy copy to you! 

Waterville Town Library Pictures 

Each child recieved a library card on this field trip! The Waterville Town library has lots of books and activities for all ages- be sure to check it out!

Here is John Churchman a local author of some incredible children's stories! Click on the link below to see more information about his work.

https://www.sweetpeafriends.com/