Literacy Updates!

Social emotional children’s book author Julia Cook, children's book

Author of “My Mouth is a Volcano,” “Personal Space Camp” & many other titles came to Francis Wyman today!

You can meet her at Parent Literacy Night:

When: Thursday April 26th, 2018

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Where: Memorial Elementary School

http://www.juliacookonline.com/

Our class will be attending Francis Wyman School’s Spring Scholastic Book Fair on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Book Fair flyers went home Tuesday. Students are invited to browse or buy their books at this time. Wish lists will be provided so that students may record items they may want to purchase and discuss those items with their families. The last day to purchase items will be Friday, May 4th.

The fair will be open before and during the Spring Concert, Tuesday May 1st, and families are invited to stop by the fair to browse for summer reading ideas for their students.

As always, there is no obligation to purchase anything at the book fair. Proceeds from the Book Fair are used to purchase materials for our library.

We thank you for your support of the Book Fair and the Francis Wyman Library.

Spring Book Fair in the library needs your help!

The Francis Wyman Library Learning Commons is looking for adult volunteers to help at our Spring Scholastic Book Fair, which is scheduled for Monday, April 30th-Friday, May 4th. The fair will be open Monday-Friday from 8:30am-2:15pm and on the evening of May 1st during the Spring concert.

We’re looking for volunteers for morning shifts (8:15am-11:00am) and afternoon shifts (11:30am-2:15pm) to help with cash registers, student wish lists, and general traffic control in the library during this busy week.

If you’re interested in volunteering and have had a CORI check and attended a confidentiality meeting with Mrs. McDonald, please contact Megan Carney at mcarney@bpsk12.org or (781) 238-2849.

Thank you!

March 2, 2018

Welcome back! I hope you all had a nice February vacation! 

We have had a great week in room 113. The students have eased back into the routines and expectations after a week off, and my extended leave. It's great to be back and see the children and all their excitement.

We have started a few new things this week. As a class, Room 113 is working on putting Mr. Potato head back together again. We can do this by SOARing and earning compliments from other adults in the building. In the first week we have earned 3 pieces!

 We are also now working on our own individual Mr. Potato heads. If students shows examples of SOARing in class they will earn a piece. Once they fill up their potato head they can earn a prize from the prize box. 

We had many visitors in today to read to us for Dr. Seuss' birthday and to celebrate Read Across America.

Thank you to Chief Kent who read to the whole first grade in the library, 

Mrs. Clancy, our reading specialist,

and Mr. D!

We enjoyed listening to all of your favorite Dr. Seuss stories!

Mrs. Christiansen came in today also and read us Chrysanthemum. We did an activity that each child had to fold a paper heart when one of the kids says something not so nice to Chrysanthemum. When someone said something kind, students were to unfold their hearts. We talked about how you can still see the folds, even if the heart is back to it's regular shape. We talked about how we should try our hardest to always say nice things to others and that are words can last.  

On Thursday Mr. Musselman came in to FW and did a special presentation for us in the auditorium called Star Lab. It is a planetarium and we got to see the night sky and constellations. It was very neat. 

A few things coming up:

March 9- Scholastic book orders due

FW Carnival- March 10

Madagascar Field trip- March 29

No School- Good Friday- March 30

-FW Used Book Store dates:

March 21

April 11

May 16

June 13- Parents are invited to this one if you'd like to purchase books for reading this summer.

December 1, 2017

Wow! I can’t believe it is December! Where has the time gone?

We have been busy in room 113. We are learning about the seasons and how they affect people and plants and animals. Soon students will complete a poster describing their favorite season. Be sure to be on the lookout on SeeSaw for that project! If you do not have access to your child’s SeeSaw account because you misplaced the login, please let me know and I will send you home another copy.

We have been working in math with adding different groups. The students have been doing a great job in math. I am really impressed. Students are also welcome to do ST Math at home on an iPad. They know how to login!

We have been working hard as a class to show different aspects of our SOARs motto around the school. We have received 10 compliments from different teachers at different times and will be celebrating Monday with a pajama day! This is totally optional!! Students can wear whatever they would like (pjs, sweats, etc). Please make sure students wear sneakers as we have gym on Monday. They can bring slippers to change into if they would like. Again, this is totally optional- please do not feel like you need to go out and buy anything special.

Tomorrow is my due date! I am not sure when baby Marsh will be arriving, but I plan on being in school right until I go into labor. Hopefully I will be in Monday, but if I am not I will be back after February vacation. I will be checking email while I am gone, so if anything arises please do not hesitate to email me. Feel free to copy me on any emails you may send Ms. Kelly as well. Her contact information should have been in backpacks today.

Have an awesome weekend!

A letter from Ms. Carney about the Book Fair!

Shop Online Here!

Dear Families:

Our class will be attending Francis Wyman’s Scholastic Book Fair on November 28th.  Students are invited to browse or buy their books at this time. Wish lists will be provided so that students may record items they may want to purchase and discuss those items with their families.

The fair will be open all day (8:30am-2:30pm) Monday, November 27th-Friday, December 1st, 2017.  The fair will also be open during Parent/Teacher conference day on Thursday, November 30th. Families are invited to stop by the fair to browse before or after their conferences. Books make fantastic holiday gifts!

As always, there is no obligation to purchase anything at the book fair. Proceeds from the Book Fair are used to purchase materials for our library.

Our online book fair will be open from Monday, November 27th- Friday, December 8th. Materials ordered online will be sent to Francis Wyman and the library learning commons staff will distribute all orders to students in their homerooms. Please allow 7-10 days for delivery. For your convenience, a QR code for our fair homepage is attached.

Cash, checks, and credit cards are accepted at the fair. Please make all checks payable to Francis Wyman Learning Commons.

Thank you for your support of the Book Fair and the Francis Wyman Library. Please contact Megan Carney in the Francis Wyman Library Learning Commons at 781-238-6849 or mcarney@bpsk12.org if you have any questions.

http://www.burlingtonedfoundation.org/fall-raffle/

November 3, 2017

Wow!

Where has the time gone? I cannot believe it is November! We had an exciting week this week with Halloween and we had a SOARs Assembly on Friday. The assembly was focused on showing Self Control- the “S” in our motto. Congrats to Ankitha for receiving an award for showing Self- Control and to Arnav for competing in the relay race for showing Self-Control as well!

We finished up our unit on plants and have started learning more about animals. We will continue to focus on animals and their parts.

Please make sure you are checking folders every day for information coming home. There are going to be notices soon regarding conferences from your child’s reading teacher. If you need me to send you their contact information please let me know!

We have been using ST Math every day in school. Your student can also do it at home. Make sure on the iPad they click “homework” and they all know their logins. Please have them try all by themselves so they are learning the techniques.


Head over to Instagram to see pictures from the week and other classroom happenings!

Scholastic Book orders will be due November 10th. I will be placing the order that night.

Some important dates coming up:

November 8- Used Book Store- (50 cents to buy or bring in a book to trade)

November 9- No School - Professional Development

November 10- Veteran’s Day Celebrated- No School

November 22- Half Day

November 23- Thanksgiving- No School

November 24- No School