The Vermont International Festival will be held at the Champlain Valley Exposition, Route 15/Pearl Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. The Champlain Valley Expo has unlimited free parking, is on the CCTA bus line and is handicapped-accessible.
Friday to Sunday, December 2-4, 2011
Festival Hours
Friday, December 2 5 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, December 3 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, December 4 10 am to 5 pm
Meet over 40 vendors offering reasonably-priced and unique handcrafts from around the world
-Sample delicious and affordable ethnic cuisine
-Enjoy multi-cultural music and dance
-Discover the world at exhibits by the Japan-America Society of Vermont,UVM
Asian Studies Outreach Program and many others
-Meet new neighbors who have joined our community at the "New Americans, New
Neighbors" Pavilion, a special feature presented by the Vermont Performing Arts
League.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Animals in Winter
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On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break we had some visitors from Shelburne Farms. They taught us about Animals in Winter and how to look for signs of them. We got to draw animals and what there habitats are. Then we got to go outside to look for signs after Linda had gone over what they could be looking for such as animal skat, foot prints, chewed sticks, etc. We also got to play a game called camouflage where they tried to blend into the think of the field. They had a lot of fun doing this. Check out our pictures above. It is so nice to have Shelburne Farms so close and great teachers to work with our students.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Holiday Fair
The SCS Holiday Fair will take place on Saturday, December 3rd this year. We are taking a more "low key" approach to this event this year and are planning to make snow globes, sell helium balloons and bring back our photo booth. We realize this is a busy time of year for families and are trying to keep it as simple as possible. Please let us know if you have some dress up clothes you could loan us for the photo booth. We will let you know if we need any other help preparing the snow globes as we get closer to the event. We have put up a sign-up sheet on our web-site or you can click on the link below to sign-up to help.
Holiday Fair Sign-up
Holiday Fair Sign-up
Week of November 14th
This week in Writing we started a new unit on Small Moments. Students are zooming into a small moment of their lives and then stretching it across several pages. They are adding descriptive details as well as feeling words. They are writing some wonderful stories.
Today we went to the computer lab and most of the children were introduced to Fastt Math for the first time. Fastt Math is a computer program that helps children become more fluent with their math facts. It focuses on the facts they need to become more fluent with. After they complete a lesson, there is a game that they can play that is fun and still works on math facts. This is a program that can be accessed at home. There is a link on our Team page and their user name is first and last name without a space and their password is student. Let me know if you have any questions.
Beginning in January our class will have a Student Teacher from UVM. Her name is Alison Greenberg. She came in to the classroom today to introduce herself to the class. She will try to come in again sometime in December before she is here daily starting January 9th. Everyone is excited to have her with us after the Holidays.
Next week on Tuesday we will have two visitors from Shelburne Farms visit our classroom. They will be teaching us about how animals adapt and survive in the winter. This is a supplement to the unit that Mrs. KillKelley is teaching during our Science and Social Studies rotation about Animals. In my classroom we have begun to discuss Long Ago and Today. During this unit we will compare and contrast homes, school, families, food, and jobs of Today and those during Colonial American times.
I am not sure if I will post next week or not so just in case, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving and I hope everyone has a restful long break.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy
Today we went to the computer lab and most of the children were introduced to Fastt Math for the first time. Fastt Math is a computer program that helps children become more fluent with their math facts. It focuses on the facts they need to become more fluent with. After they complete a lesson, there is a game that they can play that is fun and still works on math facts. This is a program that can be accessed at home. There is a link on our Team page and their user name is first and last name without a space and their password is student. Let me know if you have any questions.
Beginning in January our class will have a Student Teacher from UVM. Her name is Alison Greenberg. She came in to the classroom today to introduce herself to the class. She will try to come in again sometime in December before she is here daily starting January 9th. Everyone is excited to have her with us after the Holidays.
Next week on Tuesday we will have two visitors from Shelburne Farms visit our classroom. They will be teaching us about how animals adapt and survive in the winter. This is a supplement to the unit that Mrs. KillKelley is teaching during our Science and Social Studies rotation about Animals. In my classroom we have begun to discuss Long Ago and Today. During this unit we will compare and contrast homes, school, families, food, and jobs of Today and those during Colonial American times.
I am not sure if I will post next week or not so just in case, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving and I hope everyone has a restful long break.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy
Monday, November 14, 2011
Week of November 7th
It was great to have an opportunity to meet with all of you during conferences this week to share your child's progress and celebrate his/her learning! If you have any follow up questions, please feel free to contact me.
This was the last week for our current Science/Social Studies rotation. We will begin two new units next week. I will be teaching a unit about "Long Ago and Today". Mrs. KillKelley will be teaching a unit about "Animals".
We enjoyed an excellent Hands On Nature lesson about seeds this week. We watched a puppet show about seeds, dissected seeds and searched the playground for different kinds of seeds that are dispersed in different ways. Our whole lesson was done outside on a beautiful sunny day. A huge thank you to our Hands On Nature parents for this wonderful experience!
In Writer's workshop we continue to look at books as authors and trying different strategies in our own writing. Our classroom is full of amazing authors. Next week we will begin looking at Narrative writing.
This week we in math we worked on adding numbers to 10s. We learned a game called "50 or Bust" and "Race you to 100". Our work places continue to focus on addition and subtraction and patterns. We will finish up Unit 2 this week. Our next unit is on Computation and Place Value where we will continue to develop solid understanding of basic operations and place value in the context of problem solving.
This was the last week for our current Science/Social Studies rotation. We will begin two new units next week. I will be teaching a unit about "Long Ago and Today". Mrs. KillKelley will be teaching a unit about "Animals".
We enjoyed an excellent Hands On Nature lesson about seeds this week. We watched a puppet show about seeds, dissected seeds and searched the playground for different kinds of seeds that are dispersed in different ways. Our whole lesson was done outside on a beautiful sunny day. A huge thank you to our Hands On Nature parents for this wonderful experience!
In Writer's workshop we continue to look at books as authors and trying different strategies in our own writing. Our classroom is full of amazing authors. Next week we will begin looking at Narrative writing.
This week we in math we worked on adding numbers to 10s. We learned a game called "50 or Bust" and "Race you to 100". Our work places continue to focus on addition and subtraction and patterns. We will finish up Unit 2 this week. Our next unit is on Computation and Place Value where we will continue to develop solid understanding of basic operations and place value in the context of problem solving.
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