A Visit from the Vermont Bucks!

One highlight from this week was a visit from the Vermont Bucks Football Team.  They are the new indoor football team in Burlington!  Two players, Kelvin and Brandon, visited our team. They had the children do some warm up exercises and then talked with the children about the importance of working hard in school and following your dreams.  The team also gave every student in the school a free coupon to the game this weekend at the Gutterson Fieldhouse at UVM.  Hope you can make it to a game!


In math, we continued our geometry unit by exploring quadrilaterals.  This week, the children had to solve riddles using what they know about quadrilateral attributes.  Then they made their own quadrilateral riddles for their classmates to solve.  We also continued to work more with area and perimeter of a variety of arrays.

During Reader's Workshop, we finished our second book called Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel.  We have been studying Dyamonde as a character and have been comparing her actions, problem resolution skills, and her character traits to Opal from Because of Winn Dixie.  We also explored the themes of the book and the lessons learned. The children found that both of these books dealt with themes of friendship and kindness.  We ended the week by watching the movie Because of Winn Dixie!  Ask your child if the movie was the same as the book!  Which did he or she like better?

We finished writing our fairy tale adaptations this week and celebrated with a publishing party. Both classes shared their adaptations with their Kindergarten Book Buddies.  It was fun to see how proud our third grader authors were of their work!

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Third Grade Informance this week!  Hope you enjoyed the songs and the dancing!

Have a wonderful vacation!  School resumes on Monday, May 1st!