Field Trip – Chaperones Needed

Dear Families,

We are in danger of cancelling our field trip to Shelburne Museum.  At this point we only have 2 chaperones.  We need at least 3 more.  If we don’t get 3 more chaperones by tomorrow, I’ll write another post letting you know of our decision to cancel the Shelburne Museum trip.

Thanks,
Mr. Cheney

Behavior and Field Trip Information

Dear Families,

We struggled with our behavior today.  It’s that point in the year where kids start to look out the window and yearn to get onto the sunny playground.  I try to oblige that desire once or twice a day and give kids some extra time to run around outside.  In order to get that time on the playground, I do require kids to at least attempt some of the work put in front of them.  Today, we had a couple students jump up on the counter and hang their feet out the window, because they hadn’t done their work and were going to have to stay inside until they got it started.  If you could take a minute tonight to express your feelings about that behavior with your child it would be appreciated.

 

We have a field trip to the Shelburne Museum scheduled for Monday, June 3.  In order to make this a reality, we need 7-8 chaperones.  Please fill out your child’s permission slip and consider volunteering to chaperone.  Parents or grandparents that complete a background check are welcome to attend.

 

Thank you,

Mr. Cheney

Long Trail Walk / Marathon

Dear Families,

Students have been participating in the Long Trail Walk / Marathon challenge and will continue to do so for 2 weeks.  Any student that is able to walk a marathon (26.2 miles) in the two weeks will get a reward of a candy bar of their choice (please don’t tell my wife, she’s a dental hygienist).  Most kids have walked 5 miles in the two days we’ve had school this week.  In order to give everyone the opportunity to complete the challenge and get the reward, parents may walk the trail after school with their children and email me the number of laps they complete, or walk around your neighborhood with your children and email me the distance you walked.  Additionally, next week, any time a parent comes in to visit we will stop what we’re doing and walk with that parent for 10 minutes.  Parents are welcome to come in any time from 9:40 – 12:10, and again from 1:10 – 2:40.

Thanks,
Mr. Cheney

Phenomenal Week!

Dear Families,

Your children were outstanding this week.  I was a little worried with field trips on back to back days, but this class was amazing.  They were actually the best behaved class I’ve ever taken on these two field trips.  They were polite, cleaned up after themselves, focused on the tour guides, and answered all of the tour guides questions with 90% accuracy.  They were great representatives for Colchester!

Please enjoy the pictures posted on Twitter by clicking on the link to the left.  Once there, click on latest, and you should see pictures from yesterday and today.

Thanks,
Mr. Cheney