May 18 - 22

ANNOUNCEMENTS

🚩 Field Day

Wednesday, May 27th
This is a fun day where students work together in teams to complete outdoor activities such as relay races and other games. Students should bring bug spray, sunscreen, and a change of clothes, as we will end the day with water activities and most students will get wet. Permission slips were sent home on Friday and we need these (or an email, text, or verbal permission) to be able to apply sunscreen and bug spray during the school day.

🐟 Alewife Day: Maine Logging Museum Field Trip : K-8
Thursday,  May 28th , WE WILL BE LEAVING SCHOOL AROUND 8:30,  (If your child needs breakfast and they do not take the bus/van, please make sure they are at school in time to eat! If something comes up we will make sure to pack them a breakfast to go.)
K-8 will be heading to Leonard's Mill Maine Logging Museum in Bradley, for the day to learn about how Alewife fish migrate upstream. We will be packing lunch and eating there. Sunscreen and bug spray would be great for this day too! We will be packing a lunch and eating there.

🛶 School Trip to Great Pond Outdoor Adventure Center: K-8
Monday, June 1st

We'll head down the road to Great Pond for a day of fun play, swimming, etc.  Bathing suits, towels, bug spray, and sunscreen are all recommended.  We will be packing a lunch and eating there.  You are welcome to join us!

🏖️ School trip to Lamoine State Park: Pre-K - 8
Tuesday, June 2nd
Families are welcome to meet us at the park for the day! We will be cooking up hot dogs for lunch and enjoying other treats. Swimming will be allowed based on weather, wave conditions, etc.  This is the coast, so layers are important to pack!  Also, if you child has crocks, swim shoes, or other shoes that can get wet, the rocks are rough and sharp at this beach!  

🍳 Breakfast with Dad/VIP

Wednesday, June 3rd, 8:15 AM

🎓 8th Grade Graduation

Thursday, June 4th, 6:00 PM

Families are welcome to join us as we celebrate Rhylee!

😎 Last Day of School, Tuesday, June 9th
Dismissal at Noon.

We will be having an end of year assembly to celebrate the year at 11:15. I hope that you are able to join us!

I can't believe the end of the year is so close! This year has just flown by.  At this time of the year we are working on finishing up math units and doing end of year assessments. The same goes for reading and writing!  We are all enjoying looking at our progress from the beginning of the year until now.  WOW, have we grown as learners!

We continued our study of light this week. We looked at our experiment we set up last week of paper in the window and got to see what the light did to the paper that was exposed to light.  We also started to learn about light and color and light reflection. We had fun making shadow puppets!

Tuesday was HOT and HUMID! We all jumped on the bus and headed to Mace's for ice cream. They had invited the students for a free ice cream.  It was a delicious treat!  THANK YOU to Mace's for supporting our school!

In our study of sound waves this week, we expremimented with sound traveling along a string between two cups. The cups help focus the sound waves and the vibrations travel through the string into the other cup!  We used varying lenghts of string and tested out other variables.  We explored these again on Friday, as a few of our learners were out the day we did the experiment.

On Thursday, we headed to The Grand to see a version of Make Way for Ducklings. We then headed to Knowton Park for a picnic and lots of fun play time!

On Friday, Ms. Louise joined us to make Memorial Day crafts.