Upcoming Dates:
December 6th - report cards posted today for families
December 7th - school committee meeting 6:30 p.m.
December 8th - ½ day - Parent and Teacher Conferences
December 13th - PTO meeting 7:00 Cafeteria
December 14th - Holiday Concert - Grade 3 families - 10:00 - Cafeteria
December 23 - ½ day - Holiday Break
January 3rd - Return from Holiday Break
Report cards posted - December 6th
Please find directions for viewing published reports (ex. report cards) in the Aspen family portal. Attached are also some tips and tricks for navigating the portal for any of you that have not yet accessed your account.
Any questions can be directed to aspenhelp@freelake.org.
Navigating the Aspen Family Portal.pdf
View Published Reports in the Family or Student Portal.pdf
December is here and it is the time to spread cheer and kindness:
Thank you to our third grade elves for assisting Ms. T is the creation of our
Kindness Winter Landscape
The children take a light bulb,, write one nice thing they did for someone else that day, and either you or the children tape them to a tree..
Slowly, one by one, the whole forest of trees "lit up."
LOST and FOUND
Please note that we will also have our Lost and Found items in the front foyer upon your arrival for parent and teacher conferences. It is all organized and on hangers. Please feel free to look through and grab any of your children’s belongings. Thank you!
PTO NEWS (flyer attached) one call.docx
AES PTO Presents Our Annual
Holiday Shoppe
December 15th through December 21st
Holiday Shoppe is a week-long event that allows all students the opportunity to get into the spirit of gift giving. Students are able to purchase inexpensive, yet thoughtful, gifts for their families and friends during a designated time at school. Detailed paperwork will be sent home in the coming weeks.
To make this event successful we need:
Lots of volunteers to help the children shop
CORI and FINGERPRINTS required at time of sign-up, please only sign-up to volunteer if you already have these completed.
Wrapping supplies such as small gift bags, wrapping paper, tissue paper, tape, etc.
Supplies can be dropped off in the main office during regular school hours, any time before December 14th, and/or sent in with your children. Please mark them c/o PTO. Volunteers can sign up using the SignUpGenius that will be sent out November 21st.
Please reach out with any questions!
Nicole Macedo & Alanna Thompson
Event Co-chairs
A look into our classrooms:
Art:
Kindergarten students used stoneware clay to make snowman faces.
First graders learned about Paul Klee (pronounced “clay”, so funny). We used rulers to make hot-colored cats.
Second graders also are using rulers, making hot and cold cityscapes.
Grade three students are making Mexican mirrors with oil pastel and watercolors.
Music:
K: This week is K we are working on our steady beat!! The kids are doing an amazing job playing all together!
1st: First graders are working on playing unpitched percussion instruments to a fun song. We have been concentrating on keeping the beat and using dynamics while we play.
2nd: The second graders are working on playing unpitched percussion instruments along with a fun bean bag passing game to a silly song, Icka Baka!
3rd: The 3rd graders are preparing for their big performance on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ 10:00am in the AES Gymnasium!
Library:
This week, students in Kindergarten and first grade are learning about the Caldecott Medal. Students are learning about the requirements and we are reading books that have earned these awards. Students in 2nd and 3rd grade are signing into their Destiny, our online catalog. Students are making a list of books they would like to read and marking them in their favorites for easy checkout.
PE
Due to popular demand our scooter unit has been extended one more week.
In all grades students are playing freeze tag while riding scooters. In grade 3 students are also playing ultimate football while on the scooters. In this game we are focused on throwing and catching and moving to open space. In grade 1 and 2 students are playing scooter line soccer.
Kindergarten
This week we focused on the essential question, “How do tools help us to explore?” We read the book, “The Handiest Things in the World,” to incorporate information on how we can use our hands, but tools make things easier. We are learning the letters Ll, Hh, and Kk and the sight word, a. We also started to learn about verbs. In Math, we are learning how to make different combinations of the numbers 8 and 9. We also have started to learn about different holiday traditions.
Grade 1
This week we learned all about buildings and what materials are used to build them. In addition, we read about homes around the world and learned that people build homes to fit the place they live. We continued to practice reading/writing words with bonus letters (ff,ll, ss,zz) and the glued sound -all. We ended the week by creating our “Countdown Mice” which has been a tradition for many years. Have fun counting down the days to Christmas and have a wonderful weekend!
Grade 2
This week in 2nd grade we focused on the essential question “what happens when families work together.” We read some expository text and talked about the text elements that are found in expository and nonfiction text. In Fundations we continued to work with base words and suffixes. We are looking forward to the month of December and introducing the children to our Social Studies unit on holidays around the world.
Grade 3
In Grade 3 we are learning to solve word problems by looking for clue words which point us in the direction of the correct operation. We will be moving from one-step to two-step problems soon. Our reading selections this week have to do with elections: how they are run; who can vote; why voting is important. The pieces we are reading are focused on children and what things children might vote on at school or even at home, such as what to have for dinner or what movie to watch. The selections focus on the importance of voting and encourage kids to grow up to be active voters. In science we are working on life cycles of plants and animals.
Nurse’s Nook:
With the colder weather coming, please remember hats and gloves. I will gladly take gently used and outgrown to hand down to those seeking some for recess!
* I will be available during Teacher Conference *
Counselor’s Corner:
The Plymouth Family Resource Center is accepting applications for families who would benefit from holiday assistance. Please complete the attached application (2 pages) and return directly to the Resource Center by December 5th.
20221201081905804.pdf - application here
Here are the ways it can be returned to the center.
Email _mdelvecchio@baystatecs.org
Fax 774-283-6532
Drop off at the center - address is 430-3 Court Street, Plymouth
Additionally, the Resource Center has a Free Family Market the second Friday of each month from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. The market offers free food, clothing, hygiene products, baby products and pet supplies. The market is located at 430-3 Court Street, Plymouth.
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Thank you! Have a great weekend.
Bethany Pineault
Principal