Family Party is December 20th.


 

We have started our Gingerbread Unit.

During this unit we will be reading a variety of stories by different authors that will tell the tale of the Gingerbread Man, boy and girl.  We will make comparisons between the books to look for similarities and differences.

Activities Include:

Cooperative Gingerbread Boy and Girl

Decorating individual gingerbread 

Decorating our classroom door

Counting the dots on a dot cube and matching it the numeral on a gingerbread man

Sorting pictures by sound

Playing memory (matching pictures or by matching rhyming pictures)

Choice Time

Painting Gingerbread Houses at the easel

Sweet Shop - Making Gingerbread with playdough

Math - Counting how many sides are on shapes and sorting them by the number of sides they have

Sand table

Legoes on the rug

Building with blocks

Burlington Public Schools

Below please find a few guidelines for you to follow when your child becomes sick.  These guidelines can be helpful when deciding whether or not to keep your child home from school.  They have been put in place to ensure the health and well being of all Burlington students and staff.

☹ Red Light Symptoms: Children don’t attend school!  Fever (100.0 or higher), diarrhea, vomiting,  or sore throat (sore throats could be strep, which is highly contagious).  Children need to be free from these symptoms for 24 hours before returning to school.  If a child is taking an antibiotic they need to be on it for a full 24 hours before returning to school.  Also, red or pink itchy eyes with crusty and/or green/yellow drainage should be evaluated by a physician -- child may return to school the day after he/she is examined by a physician and treatment has begun.  If your child has any type of flu symptoms (fever, chills, body aches, low energy) please keep them home from school.  The nurse also has the discretion to send a student home with a rash of unknown cause that needs physician evaluation and clearance to return to school.

• Yellow Light Symptoms: Children could or could not attend school; you need to use your best judgment.  If your child has cold symptoms and you feel they should go to the doctor, please keep them home from school. If your child has a runny nose that is green and thick or a severe/hacking cough, they should stay home.  If your child has a bad cold, has no energy or requires any type of medicine to get through the day, they should probably stay home.  Remember, children are not available to learn if they aren’t feeling well.

☺ Green Light Symptoms: Children can attend school. Your child has allergies and has a clear runny nose or mild cough. Your child has been sick but is feeling better and has been fever-free for 24 hours (not taking fever-reducing medication).  If your child has been sick and has been put on an antibiotic, they must be on the antibiotic for a full 24 hours plus fever-free for 24 hours (not taking fever-reducing medication).

We request that you call your child in sick if they are going to miss school.  Please include in your message what is wrong with your child.  This is helpful for us to track different types of colds, viruses and infections going around.  If your child has had a fever or is contagious, i.e. strep, please call your Nurse’s office.

       Fox Hill Elementary School

Suzy Shields, RN, BSN 781-270-1792

Absentee Line 781-273-7638

Francis Wyman Elementary School

Jennifer Hazen, RN, BSN 781-270-1702

Absentee Line 781-270-1707

Memorial Elementary School

Lynn Sakey, RN, BSN 781-270-1724

Absentee Line 781-273-7647

Pine Glen Elementary School

Joanne Ferrick, RN, BSN 781-270-1713

Absentee Line 781-273-7644

Burlington Early Childhood Center

Jessica Gearin, MEd., BSN, RN 781-273-7622

Absentee Line 781-270-1808

Marshall Simonds Middle School

Tracy Nicholas, MSN, RN 781-270-1779

Absentee Line 781-273-7657

Burlington High School

Mary Sullivan, RN, BSN 781-270-1862

Absentee Line-Freshmen and Juniors

781-270-1838
Absentee Line-Sophomores and Seniors

781-270-1839

Pajama Drive

The 9th-Annual Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive

Dear Parents,

It’s time for the annual Scholastic Reading Club Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive benefitting Pajama Program, a nonprofit organization that provides new pajamas and books to children in need—especially those living in group homes, shelters, foster care, and orphanages.  

Since 2009, caring classrooms across the country have risen to the challenge and donated nearly 400,000 pairs of new pajamas. The Scholastic Reading Club has more than matched those numbers with nearly 700,000 new books donated directly to Pajama Program headquarters, where they are then distributed across the country by Pajama Program.

Our school wants to be part of this drive so that we can help make a better bedtime for these children. Together we can help the Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive reach even more kids with pj’s and books.

If you and your child are able to participate, please have your child bring in a new pair of pajamas to school by___December 7, 2017.

Here are some simple guidelines for the pajamas:

• Pajamas must be brand-new.
• Pajamas in all sizes are needed—from newborn to adult.
• Pajamas must be in complete sets or nightgowns.
• Pajamas in children’s sizes must be manufactured as pajamas—this ensures that they are flame-retardant and safe.

Thank you for helping us share the gift of a good night’s sleep and a sweet bedtime story.

The BECC Staff

If you have any questions please contact, Katie Roofe at roofe@bpsk12.org

PS: You can find out more about the drive and the program at: scholastic.com/pjdrive

Family Traditions - November

Family Traditions - November

Family Project:

Please complete the sheet about traditions and return it to school along with 3-5 pictures of your family.  Thank you.

This month we will begin our next unit, Family Traditions.

Theme concepts for this unit are:

-A family is a group of children and adults who care for each other.

-A family tradition is a special way of doing things

-Family traditions may be connected to ethnicity

-Traditions are observed with different frequencies

-Traditions can take many forms: food, activities, and clothing

-Traditions have common themes

Some questions we will answer in this unit are:

-What is a family?

-What is a family tradition?

-Why doesn’t everybody have the same tradition?

-Why are some traditions seasonal and some are not?

-What are your family traditions?

Nov. 6th- 10th (No School Thursday, November 9th or Friday, November 10th)

Books for the Week:

Full, Full, Full of Love by: Trish Cooke

Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells

Small Groups:

Journal Page - With my family I like to:

Sorting pictures of full/versus empty

November 13th- 17th

Books for the Week:

Bunny Cakes by: Rosemary Wells

A Carp for Kimiko by: Virginia Kroll

Small Groups:

Bunny Cakes shape matching

Making Patterns

Bunny Cake positional book

November 20th- 22nd: (No School November 23 + 24)

Books for the week

I know an old lady who swallowed a pie

Small Groups:

Thanksgiving Game

Matching numerals on turkeys

Choice Time:

Easel: Painting pictures of birthday cakes, turkeys

Writing: chalkboards, making a grocery list

Library: Thanksgiving and November Books

Sensory Table: water - filling and emptying cups

Dramatic Play Area: setting up a grocery store

Rug Toy: Click Roads

Blocks - Tinkertoys

Picture Blog

Lots of new pictures were posted to the picture blog today.

 

Farm/Harvest

This week in the Lucky Duck Room:

Books for the Week:

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

The Three Little Pigs

Small Groups:

Farm Bingo

Sorting Pumpkins by size

Farm Memory

Choice Time

Art Table: Making Jack- O-Lanters

Math - Using playdough to make apples to add to a tree

Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books

Sensory Table: feeding animals

Dramatic Play: Baking pies

Rug Toy: Farms and animals

Writing Table: Coloring

Songs, Word Play and Letters

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Big Pumpkin

5 Little Pumpkins

Put your finger on your

Next Week (October 23rd-27th )

Books for the Week:

Possum’s Harvest Moon by: Anne Hunter

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by: Linda Williams

Small Groups:

What Belongs on the Farm? Sorting activity

Making Lanterns to decorate for our soiree

Pumpkin counting

Choice Time

Art Table: 5 Little Pumpkins

Math - Making patterns with apples

Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books

Sensory Table: sand

Dramatic Play: Acting out Big Pumpkin (retelling the story song)

Songs, Word Play and Letters

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

I Like Potatoes

Big Pumpkin

5 Little Pumpkins

Back to School Night

October 11, 2017 at 6:30

This is a time for parents/guardians to learn about our classroom, the curriculum and expectations.   As well as an opportunity to ask questions related to the classroom.  For confidentiality reasons, we are not able to discuss any individual children at this time.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out at any time.  This evening is for adults only please.

Farm and Harvest Unit Weeks 1 & 2

Farm and Harvest Unit Weeks 1 & 2

We will now begin our first curriculum unit Farm/Harvest. Some of the concepts that we will be covering will be:

• food is grown
• farming involves many different kinds of work
• seasonal changes related to planting and harvesting
• people celebrate harvest

Some key questions that we will be answering will be:

• How does food grow?
• What are everyday jobs on the farm?
• What does the farmer do at harvest time?
• Why do animals harvest?
• Why do people celebrate the harvest?

Week of October 2-6

Books for the Week:

Eddie’s Garden by Sarah Garland

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Small Groups:

Math - Counting apples

Creating Textured that live on a farm

Where does it grow? We will be discussing and sorting pictures of fruits and vegetables that grow in trees or under the ground

Handwriting

Journals - In the fall I like to ___

Sponge painting pumpkins

Make straight lines on white boards

Choice Time:

Art Table: Making a farm mural

Blocks - Making farms with blocks and animals

Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books

Sensory Table: beans

Dramatic Play: kitchen

Rug Toy: potato heads

Songs, Word Play and Letters:

BANANAS

What Are You Wearing?

ABC Rock

10 Red Apples

Big Pumpkin

Open, Shut Them

Week of October 9-13

Books for the Week:

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell

Small Groups:

Memory with Farm pictures

Bingo with sounds from the Farm

Sequencing pictures

Back to School Night

October 11, 2017 at 6:30

This is a time for parents/guardians to learn about our classroom, the curriculum and expectations.   As well as an opportunity to ask questions related to the classroom.  For confidentiality reasons, we are not able to discuss any individual children at this time.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out at any time.  This evening is for adults only please.

Today the Lucky Ducks participated in the first fire drill of the year.  They did a great job listening and following directions.  We are very proud of our Lucky Ducks.  

Coming soon!  - As part of our class wide positive behavior system, which will be discussed at open house, the Lucky Ducks will begin collecting ducks to work toward our harvest soiree in which children are allowed to dress up.  We will celebrate near the end of October (date TBD).   More information will follow.

Scholastic Due: October 5, 2017

Arrival - Activities this week include large vehicles, small blocks, and bingo markers

Story Time
Acorns to Oak Tree

Ten Apples Up on Top

How do Apples Grow
Small Groups - 
Literacy - All about me book

Math - Sorting apples by size

Art- Making a scarecrow

Handwriting - Handwriting without Tears coloring pages

Following Directions and Coloring Shapes (this will stay at school)
Choice Time
Sensory - sorting apples by size in our sand table
Rug -  large vehicles
Kitchen - fall clean up
Art - painting with acorns
Library - Books about fall
Writing Center - Coloring and exploring materials in our writing center
Table - Apple Tree Math
Fine Motor - Sorting apples (colored pom poms) by color with tweezers

Blocks - cardboard blocks

Science - exploring acorns and drawing about them