It was so nice to meet so many of you at the curriculum open house!

We had a great time celebrating Dot Day on Friday.  The children created a beautiful class mural, completely painted out of dots! They painted pictures with q-tips (dot painting), watched an interview with Peter Reynolds, author of The Dot, Ish and many more books, attended a school wide morning meeting, sang The Dot Song, used markers and water to create dots on coffee filters and created a picture out of a "magic dot".  

Some highlights from our week:

P.E. class

Math workshop 

Playing with patterns

Readers' workshop... practicing reading privately

Partnerships

Celebrating Dot Day

The Seal toss greeting!

Writers' Workshop  We get all of our own supplies.

Sharing our stories with friends

Library

Reading partnerships

The sweetest seals around

First Week in K

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  We have started Kindergarten with a bang! We have spent our first five days together building community, meeting new friends and getting to know our classroom. We are learning how to use the tools in our room and the routines for writers', readers' and math workshop. Ask your Seal what it takes to be an author!

  

  We met our Fifth grade reading buddies!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Our very first writers' workshop!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  We were very excited about the iPads!

  
  

  

  Center time

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Mrs. Dukeman came in to teach us about school tools.

  
  
  Coming next week! Have you ever read Peter H. Reynold’s story The Dot? This story tells of a teacher who reaches a reluctant student in a creative way. The teacher pushes the student to “Make her mark,” which all begins with a simple dot on a piece of paper.
  To celebrate this story, and to encourage students to "make their mark," educators around the world have declared Friday, Sept. 16th, International Dot Day!
  SMS will begin the celebration with a whole school morning meeting. Then, our class will participate in various dot-related activities throughout the day. Please encourage your child to, if possible, wear dots on Friday. I have plenty of dot stickers we can put on when they arrive if they don't have any dots--don't worry!
  
  
  
  
  Important Dates 
  Thursday, Sept. 15th: Picture Day
  Thursday, Sept. 15th, 6:30pm: PREK-2 Curriculum Night
  Friday, Sept. 16th: International Dot Day
  Wednesday, Sept. 28th: Early Release (12:50 dismissal)
  Field trip to the Music Hall
  
  
  Have a great week! Hope to see you Thursday!

You're Invited

Please mark your calendars!
The Kindergarten Curriculum Night is Thursday, September 15th at 6:30.  I hope to see you there!

SMS Encore Teachers

Meet the SMS Encore Teachers...

Mrs. Dow is our fabulous Art teacher.

Ms. Batchelder keeps us moving in P.E..

Mrs. O'Connor always knows what books we will love.

Mr. Gagnon is ready for adventures in the Maker Space Lab.

Ms. McCrillis is always on the right note.

Almost ready!

We are so excited to meet all of our new Seal friends on Monday!

Here is a sneak peek of our classroom...